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Status Submitted
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Components Dashboard
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 16, 2024

Use a value as a parameter to which you can assign a color thru the whole dashboard or BI environment

When you move within reports and/or to a Dashboard.

It would be great if the same color would ALWAYS stays with the same item (Product, KPI, etc....)

Even as simple KPI Answers as Yes, Very Likely, Sometimes or No. We can assign a number at the Database level to each answer. It would be nice to assign that number to a color at that Reports/Dashboards level. So the color can be the same on EVERY graph, widget or anything that uses color.

Yes = 1 (assign it Green at the Reports/Dashboards level)

Very Likely = 2 (assign it Yellow at the Reports/Dashboards level)

Sometimes = 3 (assign it Orange at the Reports/Dashboards level)

No = 4 (assign it Red at the Reports/Dashboards level)


So even if the spelling of the Answer changes, it's the assigned number that will be used and the color would stay the same


Needed By Not sure -- Just thought it was cool