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Drill-through can be described as the act of exploring related information or the act of moving between related data via a link of some kind. More specifically, drill through usually exploits a relationship between master and detail information. (By clicking a master item in the master information the details of the clicked or selected item are then displayed or otherwise made available). Drill-through is a very important feature supported out of the box by Cognos TM1!
ODBC
You can define a drill-through from an originating view to any valid ODBC source as long as the ODBC source being drilled to is accessible from the computer on which the TM1 server is running. Some examples of valid ODBC sources would include: dBase files, Microsoft Excel worksheets, MS Access Databases as well as relational databases such as Microsoft SQL server.
Other
Keep in mind that you really can implement a drill-through from any TM1 view to any data source supported by TurboIntegrator.
Drill Processes
Drill processes are simply TurboIntegrator processes that you create in a slightly different way than other TM1 processes. Another way to think about a drill process is that it is the Cognos TM1 object that is use to specify the connection nformation in a drill thru.
Drill Rules
A drill assignment or drill rule is a rule that links cube cell areas with related or detailed data to be drilled through to. Your drill rules will launch (execute) the TurboIntegrator process that you specify for a specific cube cell area.
Some Examples
Some examples of drill through rule area definitions: []= The above area definition would associate the drill process with all cells in the cube. ['Actual']=
The above area definition would associate the drill process with only the dimension element named Actual.
TM1 will respond by drilling the data that is related to that cell into a new Excel worksheet within your current workbook. Why does this work? The cells in sliced worksheet contain the DBRW functions that retrieve and display the values from the Cognos TM1 cube. Therefore, the drill works!