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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Add an option to adjust the value font size on a line and column chart

You can adjust the font size of values in the column chart, but not in a line and column chart. Be consistent.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Delivered

Lineage on Dashboards

When you are running or developing a report within Cognos 11 - you have the ability to click on a data item and choose lineage to determine where that data is coming from. This capability only exists for Reports - it does not exist for Dashboards ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search prompt without refreshing page

In previous 11.0 releases search prompts would return the results without refreshing a page. That was reverted at some point. As I understand, this was to provide consistency with the C10 version. Not refreshing the page offers many benefits, such...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Enhancement to dashboard standalone-filters

Background: We implemented rolebased security via standalone-filter on a table in a dashboard and noticed a not so consistent behaviour. Note! This standalone-filter is active/enabled in the dashboard when user opens the dashboard. It is nothing a...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Enable routing of dashboards based on data modules, the same way as reports do

When responsible for a large multi-server installation consisting of multiple dispatchers, the Cognos Analytics administrator wants control of which servers are being used for processing requests. Currently, routing rules based on data tags can be...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Glossary on Dashboards

When you are running or developing a report within Cognos 11 - you have the ability to click on a data item and choose glossary and lineage. This capability only exists for Reports - it does not exist for Dashboards or Stories. It would be nice to...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Reset Dashboard - remove colour consistency, orphaned drill throughs, navigation path etc

Developers have accidentally released dashboards with drill down filters applied. Developers are seeing duplicate data item names in drill thru definitions.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Scheduling With Select and Search Prompt

The Select and Search, in the Report Viewer, prompt displays differently when Interactivity turned on or off. The display is not consistent when creating schedules and selecting prompt settings. When interactivity is off(No) the legacy S&S Pro...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Internet Explorer Windows Mode is not working for all functionalities in Report Studio or Query Studio

1) Query Studio or Report Studio• Could not drag and drop the dimensions that I want into the content box. • Reports could not be successfully exported out (be it 2002 or 2007 Ms Excel versions) consistently. Sometime it can be exported, somet...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Simple, unified way to set and troubleshoot parallelized report & visualization queries for concurrent execution

Problem to solve - Clients need to be able to make query processing concurrent for their reports and individual visualizations so that their end users (who only open reports to get some information, then close them) have the opportunity to get wha...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration