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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Cascade Prompts on filters on Dashboards like reports

We are creating a dashboard that might become public, one of the tables tells has a field for Regular and Temp and it has corresponding field tell us the class. Some classes can be found both regular and Temp. So when we drop the Class field into ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Allow conditional formatting in dashboard

When we drag a measure into table, we are able to see distribution of values. We can alter the range there and be able to select color pallette. It would be nice to simply drag a measure into a tile on a dashboard and be able to do some conditiona...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Sizing of crosstab and tables in dashboards

You should make customization of text in crosstabs and tables in Dashboarding possible. Right now they often take way too much room when included in dashboards. Would really like to be able to set font size, padding and other so the tables could b...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Cognos 11 Dashboard - Ability to Reuse Report Elements

Ability to reuse elements (i.e. Charts, Tables, etc..) created using the C11 Reporting Tool and incorporate them into a Dashboard. (just like in Cognos 10)
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Import from & Export to Clipboard options for Cognos Analytics Dashboard like Copy & Open from Clipboard options for Report

Looking for a feature where we can Import from & Export to Clipboard options for Cognos Analytics Dashboard like Copy & Open from Clipboard options for ReportDue to lack of this feature - every time it causes to Re-design the Dashboard if ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Ability to create alias tables in data modules

Need the ability to create Alias Tables in Data modules. This is a requirement to effectively use data modules instead of Framework Manager.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Delivered

Change size of columns on table in dashboard

We want to have the ability to make the columns bigger/smaller in the virtualization named Table in a Dashboard, both horizontally (green) and vertically (blue). The Cross table have this functionality today, so we want that for a regular table too.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Delivered

Data Module refresh/update data

Currently when you want to update the data for a table in a data module you need to drag it on top of the existing table. This is clumsy. If you are updating from a shared data module the work done in the share module this is lost in the refresh
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Enable Report Studio to generate PDF reports with bookmarks and navigation pane

We are converting reports from another BI platform. These reports are large with lots of groups within them. The other BI platform generates a PDF navigation pane on the left hand side using PDF bookmarks. This allows the user to quickly jump to t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Delivered

Data Module - Select Unmatched Column Values

Right now, the data module has an option of joining 2 tables using a join key but restricts to only match the values of the selected columns but does not allow 'not equal to' operator or 'Greater than or lesser than' operator.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered