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No Drill-Down information exists when language is for example RU

In import file customer use in one column account name in russian. After imported Controller Web shows "No Drill-Down information exists" message. entire_row column in wdrilldowdetail18 table: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><java v...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Is a defect

System Audit Log for tracking submissions

Users would like to refer to a log on the changes in the status of the submissions for a particular period in the Controller Web. The information required is: -The time and date of the change in submission status (ie. missing, ready etc) -The enti...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Increased Character Count for Journal Text when doing Import of General Ledger Journal

Using Transfer>External Data>Import General Ledger Journals, there is a character limit of 255 on the journal text. This is very short for a journal text. Also to note, is much shorter than what is allowed if User were to manually create the...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Alignment format of Reports download from Controller

When downloading some standard reports (Eg. Company>Reports>Journals, Group>Reports>Journals, Maintain>Account Structure>Reports, etc.) in excel format from Controller, the alignment of the columns are incorrect. The headers shif...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration

Reference to originating form in reconciliation report ('Between Accounts/Opening Balances' 'and Intercompany Balance'

It will be helpful for the user if the aforementioned reconciliation reports include the form numbers from which the account codes are coming right next to the account codes.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Locking of account codes to prevent data import

Currently, the Cognos allows data entry into account codes that have been locked for data entry when using the "export data" option in cognos controller link (excel add-in). The system should not allow the data to be imported (neither through exce...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Add the Open XLS, XLSX funktion in Reports as it was with the IE Browser enabled

HI Team, cusotmers now have to do 3 clicks instead of 1. Then you run for example an ADHoc report and choose XLS oder XLSX then you can only save the file and openit afterwards. a option to open it directly without saving like IE did this would b...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Company status not changing to processing after a journal upload

Company status not changing to “processing” after a journal upload (because General setting is set as reconcile in REPO) – When using the journal upload functionality the system should behaves like when doing a posting directly in Controller...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

When setting up daily consolidations there should be button to press if you want the consolidations to run every hour

It will save time for the consolidators. We have 5 different actualities that is run every hour during the days of closing and even if I uses the option to set up daily consolidations I need to create 5 consolidations (as we consolidate 5 actualit...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Import Specification Filter to allow Filter with Wildcard by Filename

Customer has a folder where the import csv files are generated. User sometimes forget to remove the old files before scheduling the import. Would help if the filter could filter out the files to load by the filename. (ie. period on the filename so...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration