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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Visualization Properties - Labels

I find inconsistencies in the ability to display labels (items/values/both) on the various dashboard OOTB visualizations. For example, a heat-map appears to have no options to display labels at all. Some have the option to display labels but with ...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Jupyter Notebook Integration: online library visualizations (like plotly) not available in Reports and Dashboards

All users of Jupyter Notebook integration in CA will benefit for enhanced visualization and data science functions provided by R. online libraries like plotly.js are working in Jupyter Notebooks itself but not working/not displayed when used in Da...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Render Variable to show/hide columns not working in CSV and Excel Data formats

We have a prompt page (Check Box prompt ) to select/unselect columns to show/hide in the list report. We are using Boolean variable accordingly to show/hide the columns based on the prompt[t selection. We have around 80 columns in the choices of t...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Customizable Tooltips for Enhanced Data Interaction in Reporting Canvas

Introducing advanced, customizable tooltips across various containers—such as lists, crosstabs, and charts—within the reporting canvas. This feature would allow users to display detailed reports or additional data visuals as pop-up overlays when h...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Enhancing Report Interactivity with Data-Driven Prompts

This idea involves expanding the functionality of containers like lists, crosstabs, bar charts, etc., in the reporting canvas of Cognos, enabling them to serve as dynamic data prompts. This would allow users to configure these containers to set pa...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Prebuilt row count function on Cognos Report

We've noticed a challenge with our reports: users often need to gauge the scope of the data they're dealing with, which currently isn't straightforward in Cognos Reporting. While our reports can generate outputs ranging from 10,000 to 3 million re...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

enhance the functionality of expression editor in reporting to align with data module functionality

for example from your data module documentation: ability to validate the whole statement, or only selected segments of code. Preview columns and rows in your projected calculation, filter, or table. If the syntax is not correct, the columns are no...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Keep HTML view of report in browser when changing it to Excel version

In Cognos Analytics 11.1.7, users ran a report with prompts on the report page with the List in HTML. From the Viewer they would select Run > Excel, which would open a separate window browser Window for the Excel download. The original Cognos V...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

I would like to preserve the new line character(\n) when uploading data files.

When I upload an Excel or CSV data file to Cognos Analytics, new line characters contained within text columns are automatically converted to space characters. On the other hand, new line characters included in database text columns are handled wi...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Enabling Interactivity Across Multiple Containers in a Report

By enabling interactivity across these containers, actions taken in one container (like selecting a data point) can dynamically influence the content and display of another container on the same report canvas. When a user selects a data point or a...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted