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Status Planned for future release
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Components Reporting
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 15, 2025

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Report running Cancel dialogue window could have more value with additional options, such as switch format.

Report consumers often don't know that they can run a report in their preferred output format. Untrained consumers will typically run a report to HTML, wait for it to run, then use the run in Excel option. If a report takes a long time to run then the consumer is in effect running the report twice rather than once.

We can make it less time consuming to run the report in their preferred output.

When a report runs a dialogue window shows a cancel button. On this window we can show more options.

My idea is to add a preferred output format menu to this cancel window. Next to the cancel button the user can then switch to a different format. The user can then change to their preferred format whilst the report is running.

Today the user has to :

1. Wait for the report to finish running in HTML, then click the export to Excel button. This means the user has to run the report twice. Costly on their time and system resources.

2. Cancel the report and rerun in their preferred format. A pain as you have to cancel, and redo the prompts all over again!

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  • Guest
    Sep 19, 2025

    Updated to add an example. I think this would mostly benefit novice users. I want the options to stop the current html and switch to alternative formats to be really obvious - hence buttons. We know most people don't read what's on the screen.
    I know a drop down would be a better gui for advanced users - but this makes the functionality less discoverable.

    You could even add a button for "Change my prompts" if the report had a prompt page.


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  • Guest
    Sep 19, 2025

    Thank you for submitting this enhancement request. We appreciate your feedback. This will be reviewed as part of our ongoing product roadmap planning and prioritized within the product backlog.

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