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Cognos Analytics

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Rename Auto-Generated Relative Time Members (Cube Designer)

Within Cube Designer, the ability to rename the auto-generated relative time members would be useful, for example to change the label of "Year to Date" to "Current Year To Date", or "CYTD".
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Prompting based on a filter in dashboard with TM1 Source or filtering based on measures.

The Dashboard needs to have prompting the same way reports has or at least filtering based on measure should be enabled. This would have a very significant impact on the usability of tm1 cubes with Cognos Analytics dashboards. There is need for th...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Ability to delete users from Manage > Accounts > search results

Currently deleting users from BlueID namespace can be accomplished by navigating to Manage > Accounts > blueID and scrolling through the list of users to find the one to delete. Then the Directory Administrator needs to click the ellipsis be...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Multi-line Labels on Map Visualisation

Thanks for the Map Visualisation.Instead of the label for the map points being compressed into a single line, I would like to be able to produce the map labels in the form of an address, which each component of the address on a separate line, so i...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Scheduled Job Step Report Location

When clicking on a scheduled job > properties, you get to the job steps. You can edit the prompts and schedule information here. In the classic view, you could also see the URL for the report that was being scheduled, in the new view you can no...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy&Paste of reporting elements: Possibility to select whether references should be copied as well or not

When copying elements (lists, cross tabs, queries) all references will be copied as well and when a query exists already a new one is inserted with a number added (1, 2, 3). This is not always suitable, and the user should have the possibility to ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Excel .xlsb Output Format

Please add the Microsoft Excel .xlsb binary file output format as an export option in Excel. The current file output formats do not reduce the file size enough or strips all formatting.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic setup PDF page - New pdf feature/property that allows the report created using page set when run PDF for certain criteria to appear on the pdf page without causing too much white space at the bottom of pages when there is less data - which occurs when set a static page size for the output

This property will automate the data generation. Currently, for each server that we want to generate data, we have to enter in the report in editing mode and change the PDF page setup property to then run the report (run PDF) and change the proper...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Images does not contain Accessible Name (508 Compliance)

Element with no accessible name: Image does not contain an accessible name. This would cause a screen reader to not be able to read off this element. Ask: Can you add an assessible name to the element? Similar issue was raised for PMR long back...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Not under consideration

Add the Go Sale dimensional sample model to the on demand version

Hello,As dimensional modelling and development is an important part of Cognos Analytics, I don't understand why there is no dimensional sample model on the on demand version. This would help people to understand, test and train on the dimensionnal...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration