Using filters in reports is a confusing and painful experience, specifically:
There are times when I want to set a filter and not have a drop-down on my report for people to tinker with because changing it would negate the purpose of the report. For example, if I am building an exception report to show all initiatives that are missing a value in a given field, I do not want to see a drop-down showing other options - the point of the entire report is to look for explicitly blank.
It's extremely frustrating not being able to get some kind of look at the data underpinning a chart. There's already a disconnect created when I need to make a whole new object just for a chart, since I never get to directly see the data the chart is "eating", but if it produces a result I don't expect or understand, I need to do a LOT of investigation to find out why.
Related to above - drill-downs are table stakes for any reporting tool. There's very little value in seeing a pie chart but not being able to click on the slice to see what's in there.
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback.
You can lock the filters in reports by right-clicking on the filter dropdown. Read more about it here and please let us know if that takes care of the first concern.
Regarding viewing the data for a chart, do you think our discussion on this idea covers it? If not, please let us know how you would like to see it improved.
Thanks again!