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Search results: Reporting

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Add a tool to edit Report XML directly

There are a ton of times where editing an object XML is faster and easier than using the GUI. Not to mention times where you simply can't do what you need via the GUI (more advanced styles in classes for example). An inbuilt tool to edit XML would...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

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 b...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Option to disable merging CSS classes on report elements

While merging CSS styles makes sense, there are many times where having distinct class names on the elements allows for more advanced reports. For example, I could have a class that has no styles, but use that as a reference point for JavaScript c...
21 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Being able to default when running a report ad hoc and sending the results by email to 'Attach report output' instead of 'Include link'.

There are scenarios when the user would like a report output sent to them by email instead of a link. It would be helpful if this could be a default option instead of having to manually update this everytime a report is run. It used to default or ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Is a defect

Chart - Dark Outlook

Idea Details Problem statement / pain points (real-life scenario): When Cognos reports containing charts are distributed by email, the legend text is not visible for users who have enabled dark mode in Outlook.For example, in the attached screensh...
28 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Implement pagination in the HTML reports

Client requirements is to see pagination in HTML report output as highlighted in the attached screenshot(refer to bottom right highlighted section). When the output spans across multiple pages, user should be able to navigate which page they want ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Improvement to Report Bursting: Combine Different Outputs into a single email.

When scheduling a Cognos report you can ask for different output formats to be created, for example HTML, PDF and Excel. If a report is scheduled and the report output is emails then Cognos will conbine these different outputs into a single email....
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Excel Style Column Title Filters (in Cognos and upon Export to Excel)

We would like to see this column title header filter functionality demonstrated in this custom extension created by Veracitiz become a standard feature in Cognos Analytics reporting. See demo here: Creating Custom Dropdown with Flexi-Search in Cog...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Show the borders for the maps regions in 11.1 Visualization

User was using old legacy map manager maps where it cleary shows the borders for the map regions . Now client converted to use 11.1 new map visualization where we are using shape file which has NYC Precincts with borders , we used in mapbox to cre...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Missing feature in Cognos Analytics Report that was present in the Legacy Query Studio

As our organization looks to transition out of Query Studio (QS), one of our users pointed out a missing feature in the new Report Interface. When filtering on dates in QS, they have been using a nifty feature called ‘Last Number of Days’ filter w...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release