Esri Maps for IBM Cognos (v6.0.2 Archive)

This is an archive related to a previous version of Esri Maps for IBM Cognos. If you need the current version go to http://doc.arcgis.com/en/maps-for-cognos/.

Use pop-ups

In Esri Maps for IBM Cognos, you can interact with the map and other objects in a report in different ways. If the report author has enabled pop-ups, you can press a feature on the map to display a pop-up with information about the feature.

If pop-ups are available, you can zoom to the selected feature by pressing the Zoom to button on the pop-up. You can also view visualizations that provide rich contextual information about the areas surrounding the selected feature by pressing the Infographics button. For more information, see Infographics.

Depending on what the report author has configured, pop-ups may include interactive behavior buttons that let you initiate interactivity between the map and other objects in the report. Interactive behaviors that might be accessible from pop-ups include:

  • Update report objects—Update all related objects (charts, lists, data cross-tabs, and so on) for which the action was defined.
  • Set prompt—Initiate a prompt for running a defined query on the report.
  • Drill through—Run and display other reports containing related data associated with the selected point or region.
  1. To display a pop-up with information about a feature, press the feature on the map.

    If the report author enabled pop-ups for the layer, a pop-up appears.

    Press the Previous and Next arrows on the pop-up to scroll through available features displayed in the current map extent. The feature counter in the upper left alerts you to the number of features available for viewing.

    You can press the Zoom to button on the pop-up to zoom to the selected feature.

    Press the Infographics button at the bottom-right of the pop-up to see graphical information about the areas around your feature. For more information, see Infographics.

  2. If the report author configured interactive behaviors initiated from pop-up, press a feature to display its pop-up and do the following:
    • If an Update report objects behavior was configured, press the Update report objects button on the pop-up.
    • If a Set prompt behavior was configured, press the Set prompt button on the pop-up.
    • If a Drill through behavior was configured, press the Drill through button on the pop-up.