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Adjustment of coloring for graphs regardless of signs.

We are currently working on a report, which shows, among other things, the product lines that are above or below their budget. We now have the requirement to edit the logic of the coloring, which we unfortunately could not implement. Basically, ne...
19 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

The ability to generate a unique URL for each report tab and date range within the same report

In Apptio Costing, report URLs can currently only be shared in the default tab and date range state. We would like to request an enhancement to allow issuing unique URLs for non-default tabs and date ranges. Because the lack of these features is l...
23 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

In TBM Studio, make "Report" ribbon always visible when viewing a report even when not checked out, but enable only select ribbon buttons for read-only inspection of details

As a TBMA (or other authorized user), I want to quickly inspect the following details of a report without being required to check the document out: Master template assigned to the report Report Collection assigned to the report Report's Start Date...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Can data link pull data from Azure ?

In my organization we can't create endpoints to enable REST API connectivity. Azure data lake is main data repository for us. In order to be in synch with other platforms we would need to take data from there.Would it be possible to create connect...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Resolve "BoxedStringOffset" vs "Long" label type errors

Costing stores label type data as either BoxedStringOffset or Long data types. Whether one or the other is used seems to depend on whether a formula was used to generate the label, and possibly which formula. A label field uploaded from an excel f...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Saved Views on Tabbed Reports

Recently saved views was introduced, but often breaks/does not save/displays errors on complex tabbed reports. Hard to explain to users which reports it might work on vs broken.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Improved notification and workflow attached to anomaly detection feature

The current anomaly detection feature in TBM Studio identifies row count changes, but does not have workflow built in to ensure closed loop resolution. This ideas suggestion is to create two options: 1) lightweight workflow built into Studio where...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Data anomaly detection configuration options

The current Anomaly detection feature in TBM Studio helps identify when loaded data changes. This idea suggestion is to add more configurable options to this feature. Specifically for each dataset I would suggest being able to configure a percent ...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Guided application workflow for making new metric reportable

When learning and teaching others TBM Studio, one of the challenges is all of the manual steps required to do something that is simple in every other BI tool: Make a column of numeric values in a dataset reportable. To do this today you must: Crea...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Ability to rename metrics in TBM Studio

Currently without any way to rename a metric, if users dislike the initial name, a new metric needs to be created and all allocations and model objects added to that metric. Additionally all report components need to be updated to use the new metr...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted