The Legend Position Property is not working in Cognos 11 Dashboard

[Kiran Kandavalli]

Team,

The Legend Position Property is not working in Cognos 11 Dashboard Visualization. The version we are using is 11.0.11

Steps I followed for Visualization

1) in Bars - I dragged the dimension columns (Month Name)
2) in Length - I dragged the measure (Sales)
3) in Color -  I dragged another dimension columns (Product Name)

When I change the legend position to 'bottom'. It changes, but when I save it and close the dashboard and run the dashboard again - the legend position is set to default 'Right" side. when I go to edit mode the legend position property it will still show bottom. I mean the property still shows bottom but in the layout the legend position shows right.

Thanks!
Kiran

[MFGF]

Team,

The Legend Position Property is not working in Cognos 11 Dashboard Visualization. The version we are using is 11.0.11

Steps I followed for Visualization

1) in Bars - I dragged the dimension columns (Month Name)
2) in Length - I dragged the measure (Sales)
3) in Color -  I dragged another dimension columns (Product Name)

When I changed the legend position to 'bottom'. It changes, but when I save it and close the dashboard and run the dashboard again - the legend position is set to default 'Right" side. when I go to edit mode the legend position property it will still show bottom. I mean the property still shows bottom but in the layout the legend position shows right.

Thanks!
Kiran

Hi,

I just tried your example using the samples - start with a Bar visualization, add Month to bars, Revenue to Length and Product Line to Color. I set the legend position to 'bottom', then saved the dashboard. When I close and re-open it, the legend appears at the bottom as expected.

I am on 11.0.12 though. Might be worth checking to see if anyone else with 11.0.11 sees what you see?

Cheers!

MF.

[ashley]

I can confirm I get the same issue on 11.0.11.

[MFGF]

I can confirm I get the same issue on 11.0.11.

Thanks Ashley!

Looks like it's a NUF (Negative Undocumented Feature) in 11.0.11. The solution is to move to 11.0.12... :)

Cheers!

MF.

[Kiran Kandavalli]

Thanks for checking. I have to wait until my admin team migrate to 11.0.12  :(

[RichardP]

We encountered a similar issue (NOTE:  We are also using 11.0.11)   in our case it was with TREE MAPs

We were displaying only a a few values - and wanted to HIDE the Legend.
It would be hidden in EDIT mode - but when the Dashboard was saved and re-run - the LEGEND would be visible even though Display Legend property for the Chart
was unselected.

We logged a CASE and Support logged an APAR...

PI98108: DISPLAY LEGEND CHECKBOX NOT WORKING IN DASHBOARD

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?crawler=1&uid=swg1PI98108

That APAR states:

RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
* Upgrade to IBM Cognos Analytic 11.0.12.0