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Search results: Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts

In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts. There are many customers requesting this. It is not always an option for customers to import this information or to enter the information via Controller Clas...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Planned for future release

Lock shareholdings popup form in Controller Web for editing of transaction dates older than current period

When populating the account connected to investment in group companies the popup window ensure correct values being entered into the data entry form. The feature that allows you to add rows with transaction dates within the current period is a goo...
6 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Format possibilities of summation accounts in Controller Web Free forms.

While doing Data Entry it is important for the user to know what type of information the different cells holds. One area of making this self explanatory is to use color coding. For instance having all summation accounts in a specific color. By doi...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Journal Update According to Reconciliation of Accounts in Controller Web

Where Controller Classic setting ‘Journal Update According to Reconciliation of Accounts’ is enabled. This setting is ignored by Controller Web. For example, in Controller Web, if a user posts a value in the journal to a movement account, on save,...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Add the possibility to export free form in Controller Web

In the Export Company data which was delivered 2020: BACC-I-243 you cannot in any way export free forms in Controller Web meaning that the reporters can not export all forms thru controller web for documentations purposes which is needed in some c...
7 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Planned for future release

Possible to fetch data from the acquisition register in standard forms, using dimensions in columns.

Today it's not possible to fetch data from the acquisition register when the form is built with dimensions in columns. Controller Web does support standard forms with dimensions in columns and in later versions of CCR Web it's not possible to repo...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

FAP Client notifications when Data mart goes down due to an error.

Real life example, date mart stops working at 18:00. The next day you check the data and notice that they don't match. The cause turns out to be that Fap Cline has stopped working. It would be very helpful to add notifications when Data Mart goes ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Planned for future release

Native API connectors from IBM CCR (On Cloud) to PowerBI

It is popular today for Native API connectors for a variety of systems and understanding that an organization may not utilize solely 1 or 2 systems from a principal. Hence, the need for native API connectors between various principals. Such would ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Have a Controller Formula on Excel-Link report to show which Database the last refresh was done from

Users are now accessing 2 databases at a time, after refreshing the Excel-Link reports and saving, a second User using the report is unable to identify which database is the data refreshed belongs to. Currently Users need to rename the file after ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Use Cognos Analytics security groups to limit access to different Cognos Databases

When authenticating cognos controller users against the cognos analytics security (linked to AD) using CAM authentication by default every user in the Cognos User group has access to every data source configured in the Controller configuration. It...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release