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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Increase 'integer' part of currency rate from 5 to 6 digits.

In order to accommodate currency rates which fluctuate between 5 and 6 digits for the integer part, a default of 6 is requested. Although, it is possible to change the 'unit' outside of currency configuration (ie. in Group > Data Entry > Cur...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Controller web-to allow fixing of historical rate on company journal

Controller web company journal data entry should allow fixing of historical rate like what the Controller Classic is currently providing.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Log Report to enhance for import from staging table

Enhance Log Report to show information e.g. company code in the Data File box for import from staging table. In the current version this box is empty.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Able to break link for Controller Excel-Linked Formulas

scenario: users created excel-linked reports which included excel formulas. Every month, they want to distribute the reports to non-Controller users (usually management level) but to retain excel formulas. So users have to perform "copy+paste valu...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Local client being compatible for different product versions

The Controller 11 client that is currently downloaded From Controller Web to a user's machine is only compatible to a single product version. For customers with separate production and development environments this will cause a restriction, say de...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Historical rates in a new consolidation type.

When you define a new Consolidation type it´s always very tricky to get the right opening balances on Etyp 1 transactions. It would be so much easier if Controller could get the closing balance amounts from a selected consolidation type when you ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Forms in populate should be in same order than Reorder in Classic Client

No description provided
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

The alphanumerical sort order of companies/groups starting with the letter "V" and "W" are mixed instead of separated in the Group status function

Menu Group/Group Status. It would be beneficial if Companies/Groups starting with "V" and "W" are separated and not mixed when sorting by alhpanumerical order in the Group status function. When sorting according to alhpanumerical order I would lik...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

QTD data in one form.

Our customers report data in QTD format in quarter three as below (cloumns): 1. 01.07.2023-30.09.2023 - Q3 In the period2. 30.09.2023 Q3 YTD3. 01.07.2022-30.09.2022 - Q3 In the period4. 30.09.2022 Q3 YTD It would be useful to be able to set the co...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Feature to scheduled report to export in Cognos Controller

Can we have feature in Cognos Controller to export the data and possible way to scheduled the job to automate this manual export file in Cognos Controller.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration