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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Axiforma Font

Adding the Axiforma font in Excel from Cognos Controller.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

User ID should go along when locking companies with Command Center

When locking a company with the Command Center no User ID, who locked the company is written. When using the Company status, User ID is written. Both functions are doing the same but with the Command Center the audit trail is broken since no User ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Is a defect

Possibility to select a Contribution Version for Control table E705 (Indirect Minority)

In the Control table E700 (Direct Minority) it is possible to select a Contribution Version but for the table E705 (Indirect Minority) it is NOT possible to select a Contribution version. It is only possible to select a Closing Version. This is re...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Format possibilities of summation accounts in Controller Web Free forms.

While doing Data Entry it is important for the user to know what type of information the different cells holds. One area of making this self explanatory is to use color coding. For instance having all summation accounts in a specific color. By doi...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Scheduling Reports built in Controller (extraction in Excel)

Scheduling reports in Excel is the first step in the process of preparing Consolidated Financial Statements for the business leaders. Each business leader receives a Consolidated workbook with multiple tabs (BS, P&L and CF) for the companies, ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Timezone for Cloud should be matching to Local Timezone

Currently all Controller-on-Cloud server (for all customers) are in UTC time-zone without the ability to change to reflect the Local date and time (eg. UTC +8). When reading when the reports were last refreshed or generated or saved, it is confusi...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Decimal percentages should be allowed on Allocation Control Tables Source Tab

Currently, only full numbers are allowed on the Source Tab of the Allocation Control Tables. Customer needs to post the percentage of 12.5% to the target. However, being unable to enter 12.5% on the Source tab, User needs to set the Source tab to ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Have a Controller Formula on Excel-Link report to show which Database the last refresh was done from

Users are now accessing 2 databases at a time, after refreshing the Excel-Link reports and saving, a second User using the report is unable to identify which database is the data refreshed belongs to. Currently Users need to rename the file after ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Automate process of creating new account and adding this to forms, reports, control tables and so on.

Customer has quite a lot of forms and reports and every time a new account is set up there is a lot of time spent on adding this account to forms, reports, control tables and so on. It would be good if there was a way of perhaps selecting where th...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Allow search in Rights/Security Groups/Extended Dimension

There are often changes that is needed in the security group / extended dimension, at least once a year as per organizational changes. New dimensions are added and these needs to be added to the correct users in order for them to be able to use th...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration