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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Templates for reports cannot be used unless they are saved under the " Templates " folder in Team Content in Cognos Analytics on Cloud on Demand

Due to the limitations of Cognos Analytics on Cloud on-demand environments, users can not modify Team Content files such as Samples and Templates. Once a report template is created and saved as a template, performing modification on it doesn't cha...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration
511 VOTE

Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration

Add "CM.OutputScript" style option to "Define File System Locations"

Back in the Cognos 8 days, the only way to save reports to the file system was through advanced settings in the content manager service. With the addition of Define File System Locations, that greatly simplified the process. Back then there was al...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Provide Offline Availability for controller.js and controller-ddmUMWvp.js (Learn Panel / Assist Me Panel) in Cognos Analytics

Description / Background: After installing Cognos Analytics 12.0.4 FP1, the loading time of the Cognos home page is significantly increased. The reason is that the application tries to fetch external JavaScript files (controller.js and controller-...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration
76 MERGED

Automate excel upload

Merged
Ability to automate excel files upload, in order to read these files on a fixed calendar, so the file relies in a certain shared folder, and it can be updated without user interaction,
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 3 Future consideration

In Cognos log: Change Classification of expected behaviour from Level ERROR to INFO

As of now in the Cognos log files there are a great amount of lines classified as error eventhough it is an expected behaviour. Could you please chnage the classification of these expected behaviours to either info or maybe a new level. This would...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Request of a way of keeping OIDC user profiles with consistency check

The Consistency check doesn't work in an OpenId environment. We are trying to keep our database to the minimum size possible and also cleaning up when user are deleted from AD, etc. This function is not supported right now from what the support sa...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Relative path for images used in dashboards and story's like in reports

After export/import from onprem to cloud all images remain intact in reports because we use relative paths. Because we could not use relative paths in story's and in dashboards, this became a problem for us now. We had to do a search on an export ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

See my uploaded files and my amount of uploaded data

When exporting from onprem and importing to the cloud I, as an administrator, own all objects. After a few days I wanted to reload a small excel file but could not load because I had exceeded the limit of 500MB per user. I can not see which upload...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Future consideration

Ability to upload custom code such as javascript

Within Cognos Analytics one has the ability to customize Themes, Extensions, Views & Parameters (current tabs) via Manage > Customization by uploading files to the Cognos Analytics Environment. Please add an additional tab such as Code or C...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration