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Cognos Analytics

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Add ability to apply Style Picker formatting to multiple columns at the same time

When trying to use the Style Picker tool, there seems to be no way to apply the style to multiple cells/columns/rows at a time since the 'Style picker' icon disappears from the pop-up tool bar once you CTRL+Click to select multiple cells
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Apply Style to Multiple Layout Items and to Local Classes

Restore the Cognos 10 functionality that allowed a report author to pick up styles from one object and then apply to multiple objects. Please also add the ability to pick up styles and then apply to local classes in the report.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Client side rendering of interactive reporting

Client side rendering of interactive reporting will enhance the user experience a lot. It will also reduce the load on the Cognos servers 1. Faster sorting (and other operations) where no new data retrievals are needed and the output is only sorte...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add Rename to the more (...) shortcut menu

Many find it difficult to figure out how to rename objects within the CA portal -- whether that is renaming a report, a subscription, a package or whatever. Some of us know how to rename objects but it might be helpful to add a "rename" option on ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Interactive filtering in the visualization map

Interactive filtering in the visualization map
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Make TM1 subsets in Cognos Analytics private , according to the user's security profil

The capability to use TM1 subsets in Cognos Analytics is really a highlight in R9. However those subsets a public meaning available to all users. In TM1 there are also private Subsets which are only available to specific users. We need the same ca...
about 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...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Tuple and other OLAP functions need to be available in Dashboards

Need for Tuple and other OLAP functions in Dashboards
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Baselines and Trendlines on the Cognos Visualizations

We need baselines and trendlines in Report Studio visualizations but they are not available
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Member tree for OLAP source in dashboading is missing

Member tree for OLAP source in dashboading is missing, only metadata tree is avaiable. Metadata tree is not user friendly it is developer point of view.For example this feature was in Cognos Workspace Advanced were OLAP source can be viewed as met...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release