Cognos 11.0.9 New Visualizations don't have annotations?

[JacobDRichard]

We've just made the switch from Cognos 10 to 11, with all the hassle that has been, everything is great; however, I can't seem to find how to add a trendline and baseline to these new visualizations, only to the older charts.

Is this something that can't be done or is it hidden somewhere that I can't seem to find?

[MFGF]

We've just made the switch from Cognos 10 to 11, with all the hassle that has been, everything is great; however, I can't seem to find how to add a trendline and baseline to these new visualizations, only to the older charts.

Is this something that can't be done or is it hidden somewhere that I can't seem to find?

Hi,

You'd need a Simple Line and Column visualization to do things like this - you can't add annotations to the visualizations in the same way as the old AVS charts.

Might be easier to style an AVS chart so it looks like the new visualization you are using?

Cheers!

MF.

[JacobDRichard]

That's what I've seen, I just like the newer visualizations, a lot smoother and cleaner looking. Not sure as to why that functionality would be stripped, but okay.

[MFGF]

That's what I've seen, I just like the newer visualizations, a lot smoother and cleaner looking. Not sure as to why that functionality would be stripped, but okay.

The thing about AVS charts is that you have a huge amount of control over them. You can easily make them look as smooth and clean as the new visualizations. If you turn off the 3D nonsense, set the colour palette to be the same colours the visualizations use, set the font to be Arial 8 and gray, turn off the bar borders, turn off the colour bands in the Gridlines property of the axis, set the gridlines themselves to be Silver, set the Axis Lines to be silver and turn off the tick marks, you can get a chart that looks almost indistinguishable from a visualization:



Just a thought...

MF.