IBM Cognos for Microsoft pane

The IBM® Cognos® for Microsoft pane keeps the most common IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office commands accessible from a central location in your Microsoft Office application.

The IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office pane contains reports and report objects that you can import into a Microsoft Office application.

The IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office pane contains these tabs:

  • the Browse Content tab Browse Content icon

    Contains the list of IBM Cognos Analytics servers and the report content in each data source.

    You can view a business card for each report or report element. The business card contains a thumbnail-sized image of the report or element and report information such as owner, contact, modification date, location, and description. For more information, see Viewing information cards.

  • the Manage Data tab Manage Data tab icon

    Contains reports or report elements that were imported from the IBM Cognos Analytics servers, such as crosstabs, lists, or charts, and their associated properties.

  • the Properties pane on the Manage Data tab

    Shows a detailed view of the report objects. For some objects, you can specify a value for the property.

    You can use the Properties pane to make several changes and apply them at the same time instead of running different commands. For example, you can

    • change the name of an imported report
    • define the address of the IBM Cognos Analytics gateway
    • specify the default values of a prompted report
    • specify which report version output to run

    The result of running a particular command, such as Refresh All Data, varies based on the values specified in the Properties pane.

    For more information, see View or run report output versions.