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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...
2 months 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...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

In ApptioBI be able to display row totals in table visualizations

Problem:Right now in Apptio BI if I create a table visualization, there is no way to add row totals at the right side of the table. If my users require this information they either need to download an export of the table and manually calculate tho...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Subscription emails

Leverage more than one global filter on the email feature for Costing
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

View Allocations Drivers Over a Period of Time

When adding Drivers to a column or line chart, and bringing in historical time periods, Apptio does not support the use of the Driver field. This would be very useful for comparing the cost of different allocations over a period of time. In our us...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Submitted

Show specific data range included as “previous period” in visuals with a previous period comparison enabled

Problem:Right now when you have a visual with a "compare" to "previous period" enabled, the previous period metric in the visual is just labeled "previous period" and doen't state what the previous period includes. Request:To provide clarity and r...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

In ApptioBI be able to sort my measure value in visualizations where data has Date Range: View By option other than None selected

Problem:Right now when data is grouped by day, month, etc. the data can only be sorted by the dimensions alphabetically in the Edit UI and for a report view. This means as a report owner I can't display the most costly items at the top of the tabl...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Ability for report viewers to select alternate date granularity, similar to how they can select an alternate dimension or metric to display

Problem:Right now in Apptio BI the date range granularity (group by none, day, month, etc.) can only be configured in a visual's edit UI. Once set it can not be changed by a user who only has view access to the report the visual is in. This means ...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Ability to remove default date range from ApptioBI Report

Problem:Right now if an admin or report owner sets a default date range on an ApptioBI report in the global date range selector, there is no way to return to a state where a default date range is not set for that report. You can only update what t...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

ad hoc report subscribtion

Ad hoc report subscriptions would allow users to automatically receive customized reports on-demand without the need to schedule them. Currently, sending on-demand reports requires subscribing end users to a report, which also generates confusing ...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted