Saving reports

This section describes how to save your report.
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You can save reports to the IBM® Cognos® 8 server or to your computer.

If you are saving the report for the first time, in the File menu, click Save, browse to the location where you want to save the file, type a file name, and click Save.

To save a copy of the file under a different name, in the File menu, click Save As, browse to the location where you want to save the file, type a file name and click Save. For more information about setting up folders in IBM Cognos Connection for your reports, see the IBM Cognos Report Studio Professional Authoring User Guide.

To save the report specification as a local XML file:
  1. In the File menu, Click Tools.
  2. Click Copy Report to Clipboard
  3. Open a text editor and paste the content from clipboard to the editor
  4. Save the file as an xml file.

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