Specify a Burst Group

Specify burst groups to set how the report will be distributed. Burst groups are defined by a data item that you create in the report or that you add from the burst table.

Procedure

  1. Click the Queries icon Queries icon, and click the query that will produce the data to distribute.
  2. If you are creating a data item, do the following:
    • Click the Toolbox icon The toolbox icon and drag Data Item to the Data Items pane.
    • In the Expression Definition box, type the expression that defines the burst key.

      For example, the following expression builds an email address for each sales representative in The Sample Outdoors Company. The expression incorporates the calculated field that was previously created, which is named userID in the following expression, with ibmcognos99.com as the domain name.

      [userID]+'@ibmcognos99.com'

      Tip: To give the data item a more meaningful name, replace the default name in the Name box.
  3. To specify a burst table column as the data item, do the following:
    • Click the Data icon Data icon, and from the Source tab source tab, expand the burst table.
    • Drag the data item to the Data Items pane.

      For example, if you are bursting reports by email, drag the data item containing email addresses.