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Tabbed report does not support page breaks by section

When I create a sectioned report and set page breaks by section on a tabbed report the run report fails. The indication is that a tabbed report does not support page breaks by group. Since portals were taken away we are using tabbed reports to sup...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable datatype information when converting Query Studio reports

When using the "Convert to report" option to convert Query Studio reports to Report Studio/editor, data items do not contain the XML tags required for several reporting options to function properly, namely filtering and inserting a calculation wit...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Make dashboard "Smart title" smarter

Currently when creating a dashboard, user adds fields to a widget and the smart title is automatically generated. However, these "smart" titles are created using the language locale of the user who created the widget. When a user with another loca...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Joined queries do not respect Prompt Type Settings from Framework Manager when creating a Prompt page

When you create a prompt page from a list with a single query it respects the Prompt Type settings of the data item in Framework Manager e.g. Generated Prompt. However, if you join 2 queries together, and used the joined query, it does not and jus...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Provide SDK interface to automate theme and extension maintenance. (CA11)

Provide a programmable interface (SDK) to partially deploy themes and extensions to environments as well as create the needed settings to roles and rights.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Remove alerts from cognos objects when copy

User set up alert in cognos (on report, report view,..) using 'Alert me about new versions'. When someone copy this object afterwards the alert goes with such a copy. So if the user of the copy change his prompt selection following his security pr...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customize where Team Content folder appears

In Cognos 11.1.2 we were able to hide Team Content from the home page because we were able to set up a Custom folder from which our clients were able to launch reports. However all of the packages used to create dashboards were located in the Team...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Query optimization by not creating an extra query for summaries

In reports running with full interactivity having a dimensional source (DMR or Cube) you need to use the built in summary function in order to have a summary. This since any drill-downs will create a new data item and you can't reference a specifi...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create default Metadata settings

We would like to create default settings for all users with for the following: Metadata vs. Member tree, Single Members vs. Sets, bringing in Members vs. Children and Expanding and Collapsing on drill throughs. Example: If we wanted to make it so ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to use Named Sets from Dynamic Cube as slicer/context filter in Studios

Named sets are a great addition to cubing technology, which are similar to creating "public" version of custom subsets that were available in PowerPlay. But they cannot be simply added to a report as a slicer or context filter.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration