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Ability to refresh prompts of an embedded report if dashboard filter(s) change / common prompting model

Our dashboards created for IBM sales leadership often have both native dashboard views and embedded/iframe'ed reports when it is needed for better data visualization. Embedded report prompts are hard-coded in a URL pointing to a report. If a user ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration

Tachometer in Dashboard Visualization

There is no tacho chart in Cognos 11 and 12. In the report component, this can still be found under the old Cognos 10 diagrams. Will there be a refreshed version of the tacho chart in the future?
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Planned for future release

Dashboard Features

1. Can the Dashboard report be scheduled? To be emailed to Inbox 2. Can a dashboard report output be exported/scheduled to run in Excel? So that it can be attached to email delivery method
22 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Dashboard - Views

We really need to have Dashbord views (as we have for ReportViews) that allow us to set specific dashboard values while having on sigle master Dashboard. Thank you.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2

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...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Dashboard Cascade with Dates

I have a model with 3 fields - Year, Year-Month, and Date. In reporting, I can set up a set of cascading prompts that allow for selecting the Year and then the subsequent months of the selected year and after selecting a Year-Month, the subsequent...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Dasboard Export to Excel Format

Ability to export dashboards with layout to Microsoft Excel format
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 5 Planned for future release

Amount(abbreviated data format) in KPI widgets unable show values in Indian Currency format in dashboards

Amount(abbreviated data format) in KPI widgets unable show values in Indian Currency format in dashboards.e.g. billion to crore : Cognos dashboards are unable to show Amount fields(when abbreviated) in widgets in Indian currency formats. e.g. clie...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Store filter selections per user in shared Dashboards

In shared Dashboards it would be great if each user can store his individual filter values in drop down filters so when he access the dashboard later it would be loaded by using those filters.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0