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Select totals levels for nested crosstabs in Dashboards - CUG2026

Crosstabs in Dashboards often need nested row categories for grouping and sorting purposes. But often neither none totals or all totals are appropriate. So you should be able to select which totals levels you want to display. Most important is the...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Future consideration

Implementation of permission settings on tabs in the Cognos Analytics Dashboard CUG2026

We have a customer requirement to make data available in a Cognos Analytics dashboard. However, there are different groups of users who should see different content. Therefore, it is necessary to use permissions to show or hide specific dashboard ...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Future consideration

Globally change the value of input customized parameters included in a defined filter

[The description for problem] Customized parameter is not applied all visualizations on Dashboard. When we create a filter with the parameter (i.e. pCountry) under Manage >Customizatio >Parameters on a data module and apply it on a dashboard...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Future consideration

Change Font type and size on map labels

Currently there does not seem to be any way to change the font size or type of labels on maps. The current labels can be resized but that is it. As a result of this, the clarity of the label is not good and difficult to clearly make out. This is e...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Future consideration

Retain Smart TItie Formatting when Drilling/Navigating

In a dashboard with visualizations that support Drill down/Navigate via Navigation Paths , if you format a Smart Title with attributes like color or style on one level of a navigation path and then drill or navigate to another, the Smart Title for...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Future consideration

Colour consistency should be definable across all objects, not just within a single dashboard. And we should have attributes on members, not just data items.

Colour consistency is a great feature, ensuring that within a single dashboard all visualisations will show a member with the same colour. But what about if you have a suite of dashboards? What about if you have reports? A user would want the same...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Future consideration

Possibility to sort a table in a dashboard based on a column not visible in the table

purpose: we would like to sort on large transactions detailed explanation: we would like to sort a table based on absolute values, but not showing the absolute value column. We want to display the actual value column. example: actual value ,abs (v...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Future consideration

Add a copy/paste specification to clipboard option for Dashboards and Data Modules

Like it exists for Reports, it will be great to have a copy/paste specification to clipboard option for DataModules and Dashboards.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Future consideration

Give us better Tab Icons

Within the dashboard tool you can add icons to tabs. This makes a dashboard more visually appealing.However the included icons are awful.Some of the really bad ones include: a bee (probably useful for IBM but no other business) a bowler hat a spea...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Future consideration

Ability to hide dashboard toolbar (or components of dashboard toolbar) for a dashboard or role.

When embedding dashboards into our 3rd party tool we would like the ability to disable or hide components of the dashboard toolbar to suit our needs and have a more seamless integration with our core product. In some circumstances we want to limit...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Future consideration