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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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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 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

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...
almost 5 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...
almost 5 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...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 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
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 6 Not under consideration

Time stamped account hierarchy

Similar to the organizational dimension within Controller, Klarna would like to be able to create a time stamped account hierarchy in order to encompass changes to the account structure over time without affecting historical account structures, i....
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Unlock All Periods

In the Maintian -Period Locking – Change Multi Period Locking there is an option to "Unlock All Periods". How can we dsable this functionality for all users except ADM? This will minimise the risk of periods being left open for data entry.
almost 10 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 separate ex...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under 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 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Brief of AM

Last year AM held a project whose objective was to configure the consolidation structures in order to obtain correct results at different consolidation subgroups, alas many problems arose since in AM’s company structure a subgroup belongs to many ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration