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Option to select "Open In New window" for Dashboard Drill Down

While creating drill down in dashboard, designer do not have option to select "Open in new window". this option is not available in dashboard, report drill down has this option and designer check bob to "Open in new window". Opened ticket with IBM...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Add fixed and relative values to baseline visualization

While building dashboards, it's common to have to see the baseline of a graph (lines or bars). This feature already exists in report studio (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.0.0?topic=properties-baselines)
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Change size of columns on table in dashboard

We want to have the ability to make the columns bigger/smaller in the virtualization named Table in a Dashboard, both horizontally (green) and vertically (blue). The Cross table have this functionality today, so we want that for a regular table too.
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Consistency between report and dashboard behavior - Edit mode

You have to save dashboard to alternate location to edit the dashboard if you don't have write permissions on that folder. This is different from reporting, I can still edit the report, but it will force me to save to a new location. I think consi...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Dashboard visualizations, KPI widget: show distance in values

Dashboard visualizations, KPI widget: show distance in values to target value. Today it is only possible to see the distance in %.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Dashboard User Input

We have a need to model a future scenario based on current data. This projection requires user input, and is accomplished via prompting in a report. Every time we want to recalculate the projection value due to a changed assumption, the report mus...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

When a visualization is copied from one dashboard to another a new datalink will be added

Case number TS007058586 It is single server installation of CA 11.1.7 on Wins 2016 server. Issue: When a visualization is copied from one dashboard to another a new datalink will be added even though the data source (package) is the same. Step-by-...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Dashboards: Directionality of filtering between widgets

The interactive filtering via widget connections are too inflexible for our purposes. Currently, charts can be assigned to specific connections, but no directionality can be defined for the filter relationships. With directionality, e.g. several K...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Ability to reuse/reference report elements in Dashboards

We need an ability to either reuse (copy&paste) or reference (like in Workspace) elements from Reports in Dashboards. Optimally we have the choice which way we want to use for the specific use case. Copy&paste contents from a Report to a D...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Change size of the label KPI

We want to have the ability to change the label size in a KPI.
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration