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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Tabs for Open Content in Reporting

In reporting there is currently a drop down to view what multiple reports, dashboards etc a user has open, this is located in the middle, It would be useful for users to have a tabbed view of what's open and also encourage users to close content t...
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Retain Filter Preferences per User Login in Cognos Dashboards

Currently, users must manually reapply their preferred filters each time they log in or refresh the dashboard. Allowing Cognos to retain user’s last selected filters based on their loginID would save time, improve efficiency, and create a more per...
9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted
117 VOTE

Ability to refresh prompts of an embedded report if dashboard filter(s) change / common prompting model

Our dashboards created for IBM sales leadership often have both native dashboard views and embedded/iframe'ed reports when it is needed for better data visualization. Embedded report prompts are hard-coded in a URL pointing to a report. If a user ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration

Dashboard - Views

We really need to have Dashbord views (as we have for ReportViews) that allow us to set specific dashboard values while having on sigle master Dashboard. Thank you.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2
157 VOTE

Create Read-Only Dashboard Security Option

Have the ability to give consumers read-only access to dashboards. So: view and run, interact with existing prompts, but NOT create or edit.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Create from existing data Tile - Present content view with folder navigation.

When using the 'Create' tile from the homepage of Cognos Analytics and then selecting to create a report using existing data. Currently the user is presented with a long list of data sets, data modules and packages that they have access to. The co...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 2 Future consideration
125 VOTE

Option to Run Schedule Once

We were excited to see the My Schedules and Subscriptions menu added to Cognos Analytics 11.0.8, but found there was one option we previously had (and still have in the administration view) is to run a schedule once. Our users who heavily utilize ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hover Text on Dashboard

Dashboard needs to be clean and have short titles due to real estate being valuable on the page. If the hover text function could have a full title and definition of terms for specific visualizations / metrics then we can keep the clean look and f...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Planned for future release

The feature of viewing package data sources is not present in Cognos11

The feature of viewing package data sources in package > actions > more is not present in Cognos11. We like this feature to be in Cognos 11
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

View 'Members Tree' on Dashboard tool for Dimensional datasources

We have many Transformer cubes and we want to use them as a Datasource on the dashboard tool. This works fine but the fact is that there are several manual categories created in the cube dimensions. We need to use those categories to create dashbo...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered