Access the Drill-through Assistant

You can use the drill-through assistant for debugging purposes when you work with drill-through definitions in IBM® Cognos® Connection.

Before you begin

To use this functionality, you must have the required permissions for the Drill-Through Assistant secured function in IBM Cognos Administration.

Select a link in your source report, right-click the link, and select Go To, or from PowerPlay® Studio, click the drill-through button.
The Related links page appears, showing the list of available target reports. If your target report is not shown, review the scope settings in your drill-through definition.

Tip: If only one target is available, then when you select Related links, the target is opened without showing the Go To page.
Click View passed source values to see the values that are available for passing by the source report.
Next to the target report, click the down arrow and choose View Target Mapping.
A list of the valid mapped data appears, showing the available source values, and the use and display values.
For either set of values, click More information to see the XML for the selection context (passed source) or the drill-through specification (target mapping.