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Cognos Analytics

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Improvement for Drillthroughs from dashbords - passing business key

Currently, only the represented data elements are passed in a drillthough. This is usually the label (caption), which is inadequate for filtering in a drill target. A solution could be, to be able to assign an attribute to each of the displayed da...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Use Reportpath() function to construct url in Cognos Analytics

Reportpath() function returns the path of the report as /content/folder[@name=""]/report[@name=""] and this was used to construct report url dynamically in C10.2.2. but this path cannot be used to construct url in cognos analytics as the url const...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Data Module data type

We have a table with among other fields are boolean data types, these are used for certain calculations and filters, the point is that in Data Module these fields appear as not supported, also the table is accesed by the ERP and its structura can'...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create a subscription mechanism for reports that could work in an airgapped environment (no access to email). Idea is to show a notification to the user in the Cognos UI itself (using the bell).

The customer is generating reports on a regular basis and is not able to use the standard email distribution for those reports because of he is having an airgapped environment.Currently, the team has been using a workaround proposed by Trevor Come...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Ability to control the sequence of loading in-memory aggregates from Dynamic Query Analyzer for Dynamic Cubes

Would like the ability to control the sequence of how in-memory aggregates are loaded for Dynamic Cubes. Currently you can only pick and the sequence they are loaded is not predictable.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Progress bar while running a report

Oftentimes, when we are running a large report (that could take for example 10 minutes), we would like to see the progress of the loading of the report. This way, we could see if the loading got stuck, or if a report still needs only 1 minute, or ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Creating new dashboards from old reports

It would be great if we could either pin a report and be able to select it into a new dashboard. Or, have the ability to copy a report, or report object, and be able to paste into a new dashboard.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

dashboard conditional formatting

The new conditional formatting in dashboards are great improvement. The functionality could be improved by adding a custom calculation. Currently, you can only compare to a specific field. Would like conditional formation to work with tables also
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change the default width of the navigation tab

It is not possible to change the default width of the navigation bar. We can resize it manually, but the configuration is lost once logged off.+ settings of My content and Team content are independants
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Always show properties pane

In Cognos 10 and prior, when opening a report in edit mode -- you always had the properties pane available and didn't have to do anything - it was just there. In Cognos 11, when opening a report in edit mode -- if you want to change a property (sa...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

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