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Cognos Analytics

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'Fred is Red' - Make specific datapoints always have same formatting

When creating visualisations, there is often the problem that similar datapoints will show up differently depending on how you look at it. For example, when doing Social Media Analytics, 'negative' sentiment should always display in red, whereas '...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow relative path for dashboard images

Adding an image to a dashboard, the URL property does not allow relative path which makes deploying to different environments challenging.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics should provide a way to download report in CSV format without truncation.

Users, who want to download large report in CSV format, sometimes receive incomplete report in case network is busy and slow for example. However, there is no way for the users to determine if the received report is complete or not. (Case #TS00240...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Bring back Run Page option

Prior to 11.1.1, if a report was set with Full Interactivity to 'No', you could go to the pages section of the report and right click just to run a single page. This functionality was removed in Cognos 11.1.1. Please bring this back as it's very...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Dynamically Filter List of Report Names in Folder

In addition to the "Filter By type" and Sort By options at the top of a list of Report Names in a folder, provide a text box to Filter the list. For Folders with many reports it takes a long time to scroll down in segments and a long time for the ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Disable gridlines in Cognos for Excel exports of reports/dashboards

Users desire that Excel exports of reports/dashboards to look as much as possible as in Cognos. For this, the gridlines in Excel should be disabled. Currently, there is no option in Cognos for disabling the gridlines, which means that each individ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Data Module Query Icons to show column dependancy

Within Data Modules there is no visual indicator that a Query has column dependency set. In order to find out if column dependency is set on queries you need to click on every query and look at column dependency sheet. If a query has a filter on i...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Access Stored report output version via URL

In Cognos 10.2.2 it was possible to access saved Report Outputs (.xls, PDF) via URL. In the current Version 11.0.x this Szenario is not possible. Only the latest Version can be shown. Otherwise if there is more than one Output Format available, on...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Unable to select dimension aliases in FM with PA native data source

We created a PA Data Source now using FM to test captions on measure dimensions. We found the ability to select different alias on different dimensions is no longer available. So now there is no control as to what alias we can include in the publi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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