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Retain visible columns selection when change date field Grouping options in CFP tables

A current UI annoyance experienced in tables within CFP is where changing the date fields used for grouping, using the Grouping pull out drawer, resets the columns that are shown in the table to the full list. This means any prior customisation of...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Planning Submitted

Request to allow unsubscribe from Budget alerts with BudgetsFeatureViewOnlyAccess permission

I checked the behavior of the role with permission BudgetsFeatureViewOnlyAccess and confirmed that: Users with this permission can create/subscribe to Budget alerts However, they cannot edit or delete existing Budget subscriptions When attempting ...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Future consideration

Ability to Restrict Budget Visibility and Permissions

I would like to request an enhancement regarding the Budget functionality in Cloudability. Currently, when a budget is created, it is automatically visible to all users within the organization, and any user can modify or delete it. This behavior i...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Planned for future release

Flat Charge Forecasting

We have a flat charge that hits on the first of every month, but the forecasting feature will continue to estimate higher spend for that line item throughout the month even though it has never been higher. I tried using the enhanced forecast to ch...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Submitted

Allow CFP to forecast using any business metric

Open up CFP to allow to forecast any metric, built-in or custom . This would enable other use cases for customers. For example, allowing forecasting of sustainability metrics would allow carbon forecasting.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Planning Submitted

Make CFP plan cost ownership permissions updatable via API or import of csv

Managing CFP plan permissions by cost ownership is the right model for our organization. However, the cost ownership dimension can contain 4,000+ unique values (applications), and each value can require a different combination of Cldy users and gr...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning

Allow User Groups to Be Added to Views Without Expanding Individual Users

Currently, the platform does not support adding User Groups as members of Views. As a result, any View that includes a User Group does not function as expected. To work around this limitation, each individual user within those User Groups must be ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Planned for future release

As a user, I am looking to include six business dimensions for budgets and forecasting within Cloudability Financial Planning. The current limit is restricted to four.

The current budget and forecast workflow and costing allocations is set for six Business Dimensions. Unfortunately, this limitation is preventing full adoption and value for CFP within our FinOps model and practice.
23 days ago in Cloudability / Planning Submitted

Enhanced Budget Variance Functionality in CFP

We would like to propose an enhancement in CFP to align the Budget Variance Details tab with the functionality currently available in the Forecast Variance Details tab. Specifically, we request that the same dimensions used when creating plans in ...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Planning

Make Variance Alert Threshold Values More intuitive

At present, the threshold values for alerts are set as an exceedance value versus a baseline. It would be more intuitive if the threshold was set as a percentage of the baseline instead. To illustrate this, if I want to configure an alert that tri...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Planned for future release