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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Add a tool to edit Report XML directly

There are a ton of times where editing an object XML is faster and easier than using the GUI. Not to mention times where you simply can't do what you need via the GUI (more advanced styles in classes for example). An inbuilt tool to edit XML would...
4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Copy/Pasting an object should not create copies of dependencies if they already exist in the target report

When copying objects across reports all associated objects are copied along with it, even if the target report has the same items. This greatly bloats reports, especially when there are many conditional styles and query items. I would expect the b...
4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Alerts/Notifications

Administrators and users should be able to set alerts/notifications that are based on data changes. They s/b able to do this from within the reporting and dashboarding UI's as business requirements demand. You are allowed to set conditional format...
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Administratively Configure Default Option when Sending Report by Email

I have found that most users prefer to have report outputs distributed via e-mail as attachments so they can work on and/or re-distribute the output on their own, especially if some of the users included in the distribution do not have access to C...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 4 Future consideration

ability to set default value for email delivery method.

When users run a report using ‘Run as’ and select email as delivery method there will be two options they can select one or both.1. Include link 2. Attach output Prior CA 11.1.7FP4 the default selection was option 1: Include link. IBM made an enha...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Planned for future release

Dashboard Cascade with Dates

I have a model with 3 fields - Year, Year-Month, and Date. In reporting, I can set up a set of cascading prompts that allow for selecting the Year and then the subsequent months of the selected year and after selecting a Year-Month, the subsequent...
17 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Being able to default when running a report ad hoc and sending the results by email to 'Attach report output' instead of 'Include link'.

There are scenarios when the user would like a report output sent to them by email instead of a link. It would be helpful if this could be a default option instead of having to manually update this everytime a report is run. It used to default or ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Is a defect

Option to disable merging CSS classes on report elements

While merging CSS styles makes sense, there are many times where having distinct class names on the elements allows for more advanced reports. For example, I could have a class that has no styles, but use that as a reference point for JavaScript c...
24 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Chart - Dark Outlook

Idea Details Problem statement / pain points (real-life scenario): When Cognos reports containing charts are distributed by email, the legend text is not visible for users who have enabled dark mode in Outlook.For example, in the attached screensh...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

How to thicken a pie chart border in Dashboard in Cognos 12

Please take a look at the attached file.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

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