Create Special Category Levels - IBM Cognos User Manual

For example, suppose that one dimension in your model organizes all your
products by Product Line and Product Type. You want to group your most
promising products into a special category. These include Star Gazer-2 tents, the
Compact Relief Kit first aid kit, SunShelter-15 sunblock, and all your Watches.
You create a Best Bets special category and drag the Star Gazer-2 category to it, as
shown in this image.
You then drag the other promising product categories, in turn, from the Product
and Product Type levels to your new category, yielding the following result.
Procedure
1. Open the Categories diagram for the dimension for which you want to create
2. Drag the pointer to the right of the root category and release the mouse button.
3. In the Category code box, type the name of the special category and click OK.
4. Connect the special category to one or more regular categories by dragging the

Create Special Category Levels

You can create drill-down levels by using special categories, thereby providing
your users with an alternate drill-down path that uses a structure not supplied by
your source data.
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the special category and position the pointer over the right side of the root
category.
The pointer changes to a crosshair.
A new special category is created and its property sheet opens.
regular categories to the drop location of the special category.