The PowerPlay Web Table of Contents

The PowerPlay Web Table of Contents lists the cubes and reports that you can open. When you click a report, identified by the report icon , PowerPlay Web Viewer opens and shows a report that was created in another PowerPlay client application. You can print the report and you can also open it in PowerPlay Web Explorer if you want to explore the report further. When you click a cube, identified by the cube icon , PowerPlay Web Explorer opens; you can explore the data by choosing dimensions, performing calculations, and other activities.

Reports and cubes can also be organized into folders in the PowerPlay Web Table of Contents by your administrator.

If your administrator has made the PowerPlay Web Table of Contents available to you, you access it from your Web browser. If you are opening reports from your IBM Cognos portal (either Upfront or IBM Cognos Connection), you will have a different URL and you will not see the PowerPlay Web Table of Contents. For more information about opening items from Upfront, see the Upfront online help. For information about IBM Cognos ReportNet, see the IBM Cognos ReportNet User Guide.

Open a Report

Reports you open are created by report authors using another PowerPlay client application. The reports can be published to your IBM Cognos portal and added to PowerPlay Enterprise Server by your administrator.

Step

• From the PowerPlay Web Table of Contents, click an entry identified by the report icon .

The reports opens in PowerPlay Web Viewer in PDF format. If the report author has defined prompts for the report, the Modify Reports page opens so you can select the information you want to see in the report.

Open a Cube

A cube is a multidimensional data source that contains measures (data) organized into dimensions. Cubes are created by your administrator and added to PowerPlay Enterprise Server or your IBM Cognos portal.

Step

• From the PowerPlay Web Table of Contents, click an entry identified by the cube icon .

The cube opens in PowerPlay Web Explorer and shows the first two dimensions as the rows and columns.

Set Preferences

You can specify regional settings, such as a time zone and currency, and select languages if your PowerPlay administrator has enabled these settings.

Select Regional Settings

You can format the numeric values of your query results using the settings of a specific country or region. For example, some regions of Europe use a period (.) as the thousands separator. The Locale box contains many different regions. If the region you want is not in the list, your PowerPlay administrator can add it for you. The availability of this feature and the individual regions shown in the Locale box are controlled by your PowerPlay administrator.

Note: PowerPlay Web uses a data format configuration file named cerlocale.xml. For more information, see Default Data Formats.

Steps

1. From the PowerPlay Web Table of Contents, click the Preferences tab.

If you opened a cube or report from the PowerPlay Web Table of Contents, you can click the Return to Source button to go to the Table of Contents page. If you opened a report from Upfront, contact your administrator.

2. In the Locale box, select the region you want to use.

Select a Language

You can select the language to use in the PowerPlay Web interface. This selection overrides the language specified in your Web browser. When you change your selection, all elements change, including the help.

For information about setting language preferences, see the help for your Web browser.

Steps

1. From the PowerPlay Web Table of Contents, click the Preferences tab.

If you opened a cube or report from the PowerPlay Web Table of Contents, you can click the Return to Source button to go to the Table of Contents page. If you opened a report from Upfront, contact your administrator.

2. In the Language box, select the language you want to use.

Default Data Formats

Data formats depend on the locale configuration settings for your IBM Cognos Series 7 product. By default, IBM Cognos Series 7 server products and IBM Cognos Impromptu use a data format configuration file named cerlocale.xml. IBM Cognos Architect, IBM Cognos Visualizer, IBM Cognos PowerPlay for Windows, and IBM Cognos Transformer use Windows Regional Settings for locale settings and data format information. However, these products can also be configured to use the data format configuration file.

For information about managing data formats, copying data format information, or editing the data format configuration file, see the Configuration Manager User Guide, or contact your administrator.