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Repetitive values on axes of bar charts

For bar charts, when the x/y-axis range is less (<10) then the values on the axis tends to repeat. This happens because cognos auto range rounds off the numbers. The current chart auto-grouping of range works fine if the data range is large com...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Planned for future release

Control Over Fully Interactive Toolbar

Being able to control what users within a role see allows you to setup one Dashboard for your entire population of users(no matter what level of expertise they have at running and understanding a report/data. Fully Interactive (FI) toolbar gives a...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

drop downs/checkbox/radio prompts in dashboards like we have in report studio which improves user interface and space can be utilized

drop downs/checkbox/radio prompts in dashboards like we have in report studio which improves user interface and valuable space can be utilized.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Customization of tooltips to show datapoint images, description, sales and other visualizations like top 5 products for that datapoint in Tooltip

Tooltip actions like whenever you mouse hover on any viz datapoint should show other tabs/vizs means give ability to manually edit tooltip text/data what to show or not. for example we have a chart with all product category sales and whenever you ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Report Tool Function Bar

The new reporting tool should have some sort of option like the old Report Studio to have the different functions in a bar to be all the time. The clicking on a row or column to make them show is not working for our users. There are other places w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Hide Summary option on a by-Summary basis

In Dashboards and Stories, there is currently no way to control which Summaries in Tables and Crosstabs are displayed or hidden. Currently, the option is to either display all or hide all even though all of the summaries generated may not be relev...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Include ALLOWDQ setting in default cogtr.xml

Include ALLOWDQ setting in default cogtr.xml configuration file. This option should already be enabled or have a File > Preferences setting to enable it.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Passing Data item value on a line chart

When we have a line chart and have drill through. Cognos passes parameter or the data item which is a part of the graph. The requirement is to pass data item which is not part of the chart. In my requirement, I have a data item (hierarchy) of a di...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Dynamically Change Dashboard Metrics

Would love the ability to have a way to dynamically change the displayed metrics on dashboard charts using a drop down or list. This way a user could have a list of sale 4 main metrics and be able to change the dashboard on the fly by selecting a ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support image saving in stories (ad-hoc drag and drop)

I would consider stories before powerpoint (Microsoft) but only if I could upload images ad-hoc to the stories I'm telling. Let there be an image folder for every user if that's what it takes on the server.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release