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Workspace Cognos Analytics

Components Reporting

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Created on Oct 20, 2025

Copy/Pasting an object should not create copies of dependencies if they already exist in the target report

When copying objects across reports all associated objects are copied along with it, even if the target report has the same items. This greatly bloats reports, especially when there are many conditional styles and query items. I would expect the behavior to behave similar to internal copy/pasting. When copying inside a report pasting objects do not replicate any attached queries or other objects. Ideally there should be some sort of setting the report author could set to specify whether he wants the dependencies to be always copied, not if there are objects with the same name, or not at all.

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Nov 24, 2025

Yes! This was part of making CA more user friendly than C10 as C10 did the desired behaviour. A toggle for the author would be great.

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