Specify a Burst Group

Specify burst groups to set how the report will be distributed. Burst groups are defined by a data item that you create in the report or that you add from the burst table.

Steps

1. Pause the pointer over the query explorer button  and click the query that will produce the data to distribute.

2. If you are creating a data item, do the following:

   • In the Insertable Objects pane, on the Toolbox tab , drag Data Item to the Data Items pane.

   • In the Expression Definition box, type the expression that defines the burst key.

     For example, the following expression builds an email address for each sales representative in The Great Outdoors Company. The expression incorporates the calculated field that was previously created, which is named userID below, with ibmcognos99.com as the domain name.

     [userID]+'@ibmcognos99.com'

     Tip: To give the data item a more meaningful name, in the Properties pane, set the Name property to a different name and press Enter.

3. To specify a burst table column as the data item, do the following:

   • In the Insertable Objects pane, on the Source tab , expand the burst table.

   • Drag the data item to the Data Items pane.

     For example, if you are bursting reports by email, drag the data item containing email addresses.