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Print pdf layout in CT to consider custom colour paltette applied to a report

The print to pdf feature in Cost Transparency, prints the report using the standard colour palette. Although applying a custom colour palette to a report, the print functionality doesn't consider the custom colours.
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Subscribe to click-through report instead of base report

We have a base report that has two drill down (click-through) reports, so the structure goes: Cloud Spend Analysis Report (Base) Category report Subcategory Report A user can select a category from the base report to then navigate to the category ...
6 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 1 Submitted

Store Imported File Names in Event Log

When importing data into the expenses view of Planning, it would be helpful to store the name of the imported file in the event log. This will allow admins to know what file was loaded at a given time in the event there was an error in the data. T...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Allow more than one Insight per Apptio BI report

This would allow more insight benefits to be obtained and more conveniently. Otherwise multiple reports need to be spawned in order create required Insights.
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

The new Datalink function in Apptio is missing Functionality that DL Classic had

We are currently migrating all of our automated datalinks from Datalink (Classic) to the newer Datalink feature. In doing so, we found a feature restriction that we had in the legacy datalink that the newer one does not have.  Background: Se...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

It would be great to enable Error messages in TBM studio to export to Excel

Processing of error messages would be more efficient, if export to excel is available on this table. In particular in case there is a lot of errors or comparing the list after upgrade.
2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Evaluation of data errors is useless for future periods

If there are missing data in future period for monthly Data refresh cycle, the errors are generated. It is obvious that actual data for future period are not available, so error report here is dirty. In case we change to Ad/hoc Data refresh cycle,...
2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1 Needs more information

Labour Actuals

We were wondering to request to  labor actuals in the same way we load cost actuals via spend management . At the moment the labour actuals can be overwritten or deleted in error by users. Having this option would lock the actuals for labour ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Function (“Popup Message”) to inform users about maintenance work or updates

We recently had the problem that incorrect values/numbers were displayed to users in the reports (CT) due to an upload error. In this case, we unfortunately had no way of informing the users in Apptio that incorrect values currently exist (and tha...
11 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 2 Not under consideration

Ability to set default plan for all cost center owners

Most of the times, we have to close existing plan to make way for reference data updates before creating a new one. Old plan we will archived it with a different name but the problem is when cost center owners login to Apptio planning, they are st...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0