Monday, November 7, 2016

cognos visualization library and customizer



IBM Vizualization Customizer : https://www.ibm.com/communities/analytics/cognos-analytics-
blog/cognos-business-intelligence-cognos-analytics-visualization-customizer/



  1. Run VisCustomizer.jar
  2. Open vis.sample.clusteredbar.zip from file menu
  3. Amend the vizJSON part as you required .
  4. Select Chart Type Definition tab
  5. Change the values of Bundle Name text box  
  6. Example : in place sbm any text you  can mention
  7. vis.sample.clusteredbar.zip to vis.sample.clusteredbar.sbm.zip
  8. Select String Resources tab 
  9. Tag Metion : clusteredbar
  10. Change the values of lblChartType=clusteredbar to lblChartType=clusteredbar-sbm
  11. Validate Bundle button
  12. Upgrade Definition  button
  13. Generate Vis Bundle Definition button
  14. click to save / save as
  15. Give new name : vis.sample.clusteredbar.sbm.zip
  16. import file to cognos

        2.3 : Select String Resources tab and change the values of lblChartType=Chord to lblChartType=Chord-sbm
        2.4 : Click on Validate Bundle button to check the validity of changes. (Valid message will appears).
         2.5 : Click on Upgrade Definition  button. (The definition was successfully upgrades message will appears).
               2.6 : Click on Generate Vis Bundle Definition button then click to save the file with new name  (ex: vis.sample.chord_sbm_10_2_2.zip.)
               2.7 : Import the file to your Cognos Environment then you will have two visualizations as below

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If you are facing some issue while open library file ?


  1. Open VisCustomizer.jar
  2. Remove validate check box then click on Draw chart.
  3. then open library file

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