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Cognos Analytics

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Run custom visualizations as PDF and/or Excel

Since the arrival of the custom visualizations in Cognos Analytics 11.1.4 we have been able to do pretty much anything with it except export it. Most of our customers still rely heavily on mediums such as PDF and Excel spreadsheets and having the ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Dashboard: How to set the column width of the table freely.

The width of columns cannot be set freely in the table for dashboard. If that is possible, valuable space can be effectively utilized.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Planned for future release

Use or mimic Global Parameters to work on Dashboards to set Filters by user

Currently we have a Dashboard with a BranchOffice Filter. The users do not have save/updated capability on Dashboards. We don't want a free for all of changing and saving the dashboards. If that was the case, then every user would have to go thru ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Contional Formatting in Vizualisations in Dashboarding

We would like the ability to conditionally format visualisations in dashboarding. For example, to apply RAG to a bar based on a specific criteria. Or to highlight something in red if a specific criteria is met etc.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Search and Select Select Prompt Options Criteria

Currently, the search and select prompt search options are defaulted to 'Starts with any of these keywords'. we would like to have an option in the reports builder to decide which of the options should be defaulted.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Shortcuts to reports should have similar functionality as the the reports they reference

In Cognos 10 we relied on using shortcuts to reference reports so that users could run a report easily without having to know the exact location of the source report. In Cognos 10, you had all the same run options on a shortcut as you did on the s...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow ability to adjust column widths on a table visualizatin in a Dashboard

currently the properties show settings for columns width for a table visualization on dashboard, looking at 11.1.4 on sandbox, but you can't adjust the width. So if you have 5 columns they spread them equally, when you might want to make a date ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add Parameter Map to Data Module

Parameter Map was a very good feature in Cognos FM. Since we are moving towards Data Module this feature is not available. I attached the use cases
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Missing Prompt Functionality

When creating a new report using a "Data Module" as the data source, some prompt options are missing. This is a known issue under APAR PI87294 MISSING "SELECT & SEARCH" AND "TREE PROMPT" IN PROMPTING SECTIONUSING DATA MODULE TO CREATE A REPORT
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Exact match not listed first in search results

Search is not working as expected. I would expect an exact match to be first or at least at the top of the search results. Sometimes an exact match is listed 20th in the list. Usage of filters is irrelevant.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release