IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers
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Strong +1 from our side!
We regularly build complex PAW Books for clients (monthly reporting, driver-based planning, margin analysis, variance dashboards) and always hit the same wall: only 3 icons available (green circle, yellow diamond, red square).
This forces us to fall back on background colors + font styles (bold, brackets, underlines) as a workaround – which is less intuitive, harder to read at a glance (especially on mobile views or when printed/PDF-exported), and doesn't scale well for advanced FP&A communication.
The suggested additions (👍👎 for status/readiness, ⚠️❌ for warnings/errors, 📈📉 for trends) are spot-on and would already help a lot.
Additional icons we often miss in real projects:
Directional arrows with different intensities (↑↑ ↑ → ↓ ↓↓) for variance strength
Colored bars (short / medium / long) or progress indicators for magnitude
Star ratings (★ ★ ★) for performance tiers or scoring
Small flags, pins or tags for exceptions/outliers
Expanding the indicator set – or even allowing limited custom/user-uploaded icons – would make PAW Books much more competitive with Excel, Power BI or Tableau in terms of visual storytelling and user experience.
Thanks for raising this important idea – voting +1 and hoping IBM moves on this soon!