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Status Future consideration
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Components Reporting
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 10, 2026

Side-by-Side Content Editing in UI – CUG2026

Enable working with multiple contents in parallel using side-by-side windows with copy/paste support.

Needed By Quarter
  • Guest
    Jun 26, 2026

    This is really an extension of the context switcher.

    We submitted an enhancement to show the context switcher as tabs.

    For example, the user has three reports open in edit mode.

    Currently the context switcher makes it slow to copy content from one report to another.

    You should have the option to show the context switcher as a menu, or as tabs like you see in every modern application. Even notepad and file explorer have tabs.

    There should be another option to tile the context, so any content open is tiled into multiple windows,