Using the tabs collection extension

This task shows you how to install and use the tabs collection extension.

About this task

The tabs collection extension emulates the portal pages available in older versions of IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence. This extension adds three buttons to the navigation bar as shown here.

navigation bar with Overview, Revenue, and Retailer buttons

Each button corresponds to a tab in a portal page. Click the Overview button to display a subfolder that contains two items, the Product line by year dashboard, and the Quantity sold report. The subfolder is equivalent to a subtab in a portal page.

Overview submenu, showing Product line by year and Quantity sold menu items

Click the Revenue button to display a subfolder that contains three items, the By year dashboard, the By quarter folder that contains four reports, and the QTD report.

Revenue submenu, showing By year, By quarter, and QTD menu items

Click the Retailer button to open a dashboard.

Procedure

Upload the Samples_for_Install deployment archive. (If not already done.)

  1. Use Manage > Administration console to open IBM Cognos Administration.
  2. On the Configuration tab, click Content Administration.
  3. On the toolbar, click the New Import button.
  4. Select Samples_for_Install in the first step of the New Import wizard and complete the remaining steps of the wizard.

Upload the SampleExtensionTabs.zip sample extension.

  1. In the Manage > Customizations slide-out panel, select the Extensions tab, click Upload extension(the upload theme icon), browse to the <installation_location>/samples/extensions folder, and select SampleExtensionTabs.zip.

Results

You can now use this extension.