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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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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

Defining Linked Structures Company/Dimension

Today when you go to define your linked structure group, company/dimension for example you have to scroll through the list of available companies and dimensions, in order to select them and move them to the right side "selected area" using the arr...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Quarter to Date (QTD) Reporting Interval in report writing

Customers frequently request a quarter-to-date (QTD) interval function in report creation. Currently we use the interval of 3 when writing quarterly reports, however this is only useful when running reports on a quarterly period.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Transaction Amount differences in Intercompany Report

Customer has many intercompany transactions and tries to find differences in transaction amount between companies. Standard Intercompany Balances report shows only differences on group currency level. Customer asks for possibility to add or view d...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Scheduler for extracting reportbook in Excel

During the monthly reporting period, many reportbooks must be generated in Excel (around 50). Each reportbook must be generated in separate folder.At this time, this is done manually reportbook by reportbook. For example, It can be great to use Wi...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Sarah

UDBR for third party accounts run in problems when intercompany are summed in through the UDBR. When the third account is opened in a form and the form is just saved, the amount adds the intercompany amount with each saving
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 6 Not under consideration

Disable of option to consol as per method 1 and method 2

Disable method 1 and method 2 for consolidation and want to give only method “according to company structure definition”.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Create a setting to open journals accross for mutliple companies in one excel workbook, instead of multiple workbooks

When Clicking "Group - Reports - Journals Across... AND untick the box 'All Companies - Only One Level', then clicking on 'Company' AND selecting multiple (for example 4) companies AND clicking "Send to Application" The output are 4 separ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Avoid manual update of Controller FAP Cube after changing default settings

Every time someone logs on to cognos controller, and changes his default settings (default actuality and period), the Controller FAP Cube needs an update. This is alot. If I need to log on to the GUI in order to maintain this, this will take a lot...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration