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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Components Reporting
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 20, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

Improve Data Module references in reports

Currently, when selecting an item from a data module, the following "link" to that item is made:

[C].[C_<datamodule_name>].[QUERYSUBJECT].[ITEM]


However, the moment the data module is renamed, the report breaks..

To avoid compatibility issues, especially when renaming data modules, we therefore, for each item, manually adapt this to :

[QUERYSUBJECT].[ITEM]


But this is now being annoying – it needs to be done for every item we add from a data module. We understand this works this way because you need compatibility for using multiple data modules (although I strongly advise against this) but it would be a minimum to set in the Options > Report menu a possibility to by default use full indexed names or just the short forms

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