Drill down in PowerPlay
What is drilling up & drilling down?
Drill up & down operations allows moving up and down the hierarchy of categories in a dimension.
To drill down means to go from a higher summary level into more details.
Drilling up expands focus of a report and moves into a lower detail level.
In Cognos PowerPlay you can Drill up and down the hierarchy tree in the following ways:
Hover the mouse pointer over a category you want to explore in more details and if the cursor changes to a plus sign, it means that the drill down is available and you can double click the category to drill down.
Alternatively, instead of double-clicking you can right click on a selected category and select Drill Down.
Drill down by clicking the plus sign: 
To drill back up go to the cube summary row or summary column and once the cursor changes to the plus sign with an up arrow, double-click it to go one level up.
Alternatively, instead of double click you can right click on a selected category and select Drill Up.
Drill up by clicking the summary row: 
It is also possible to drill up and down in a dimension viewer located on the left-hand side of the PowerPlay screen. You can expand the dimension tree and right click on a desired hierarchy detail level and choose Filter to drill up or down.
Drill down using a filter command: 
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