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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Components Reporting
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 26, 2023

11.1 visualization like stacked column charts needs format enhancements

For pixel perfect reporting visualizations needs to give a compliant look on a report page (PDF or HTML) in specific if multiple visualizations are used on the same page. The current options for formatting the visualizations are still too few.

In a column chart it should be possible have more options for padding between the columns, like a values in pixels.

Instead of truncating long text in the legend, the legend should be able to break text into the the next line, e.g. if the legend is at the left or right at the chart.

Conditional formats for categories should be possible
as well as sorting using other data items from the query.

When the value label format in the visualization is set to "Percentage of category", the value has always the format with one decimal digit. There is no option to round the value with having no decimal values.

An option to place the legend inside the visualization is missing.


Nested categories for the bars have no format options. They will automatically concat. A box style like with the old Charts library would be great.

Needed By Quarter