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Member caption in context filter not up to date

Started by Commander Cognos, 26 Mar 2019 08:10:44 AM

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Commander Cognos

Hi everyone,

a customer is using context filters in a report with dimensional data and crosstabs. However, the captions of the members are chaging frequently, e.g. for current month the actual month is included and changes every month (ActMon (07)). Now I noticed that the caption of the context filter is not changing, but all other captions do. The XML also shows me that cognos stores the caption hardcoded after the context filter is added initially.

Is there any chance to update the caption? If not, can you think of any creative way to enforce an refresh, replace the context filter, store and paste it in a hidden field, ...?

If we would have a limited range of values we could also use search and replace (recommended by IBM), but with the given amount of cubes and reports this is not an option. Btw... IBM confirmed the situation and also confirmed that there will not be any solution to this anytime soon.

Thanks in advance and best regards!