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Report Favorites should be removed if a report is marked inactive or moved to an unviewable collection

Currently, the ability to mark a report as a favorite is available to all users in Production. The TBMAs have no visibility to know what users have marked reports as a favorite. In fact, even if a TBMA impersonates another user, the favorites that...
about 8 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Dynamic headers and footers in Print Layout

Currently, in Print Layout, there is functionality for Headers and Footers. In the documentation, it is stated that dynamic text is supported in headers but it seems this is dependent on the users PDF generator. We use the PDF generator of the web...
about 9 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Overlay graph with stacked bar in base layer and column in layer 1

Currently, the overlay chart doesn’t function as expected when selecting stacked in the base layer and column in layer 1, as it displays all three metrics as separate bars. It would be valuable to have a feature that supports stacking two metrics ...
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Allow the date range columns to be translated in custom reports.

OOTB report is translated the date range columns , but Custom report is not transrated the date range columns . I would like to be able to translate the date range columns of custom reports. the date range columns:you can add to a table: Months Ye...
14 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Under review

Improvement of Overlay Charts

The overlay charts contain Columns, Stacked and Trend. My idea is to add three options to the OVerlay charts 1: Add the option to add rows 2: Allow adding columns or Rows in Level 1 to a stacked graph in level 2 - Overlay has a stacked bar with a ...
7 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Add a permission to remove the 'Delete' option in Editable and normal tables for Power users

This will help prevent data changes/deletion by our power users. Currently Power users have permissions to add/remove the 'Update' and 'download' data options in Access Administration settings but the 'Delete' permissions option is not created Acc...
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Under review

In Sankey Diagram, customer needs YTD for cost metric and not just month.

Hi All, ADIA is prime Middle East customer for us. They moved into Apptio from one of our competitors. They feel Sankey Diagram is the best thing on reporting side, but they need option to have YTD cost and not just monthly which is provided by ou...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Planned for future release

Logging and Display Features for "Send Mail" in CT Report Export

Currently, the "Send Mail" feature does not keep logs of sent emails. For the client I am responsible for, the inability to review the sending history of emails makes it difficult to properly handle user requests for sending confirmations. Proposa...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Planned for future release

delete data in report using standard editable table based on a filtered selection including multiple pages

delete data in report using standard editable table based on a filtered selection including multiple pages. Currently we can only delete either all data (with the button) or selected rows using a check box on the current page.
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Under review

Close build early

Some builds take a long time, around an hour or more. For such builds if there is a problem with input like the uploaded file is not correct and there is an error reading file then the build should not start and error out or finish early. This wil...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Under review