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Chapter 16: Viewing and Working With Reports
• If the
Run
in
Background
checkbox was selected, to view the report you must access the
Report History. For instructions, see
Viewing a Report’s History
.
Creating or Modifying Report Definitions
SWG comes with a number of predefined reports, listed by category in the Report tree.
You can, of course, run a report as is. But you also can edit the definition of any report before
running it, or duplicate a report and edit the definition of the duplicate, enabling you to define as
many versions of the report as will be useful.
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To create a report or modify an existing report
1. Select
Logs
and
Reports
Æ
Reporting
Tool
Æ
Reports
.
The reports tree displays the list of report categories. Under each category are the currently
existing report of that type.
2. Do either of the following:
• To edit the attributes of an existing report in the tree, select the report in the tree and when
its attributes are displayed in the main window, click
Edit
.
• To create a report, right‐click a similar report and select
Duplicate
Report
.
The Report definition details appear in the main window. The definition consists of three tabs:
General
,
Columns
, and
Filters
.
3. In the
General
tab, define the general details about the report: name, description, and format in
the
View
As
field.
4. In the
Columns
tab, select the data columns that should be displayed in the report.
5. In the
Filter
tab, define filtering criteria as follows:
a. To add a new row, click . If a popup menu appears, select
Add
Filter
.
b. In the
Field
drop‐down list, select the required filter type.
c. In the
Operator
drop‐down list that appears, select the relevant parameter (for example,
Equals). Note that the
Operator
drop‐down list varies according to the selected filter type.
NOTE:
At
the
bottom
of
the
Filter
tab
is
a
toggle
button
Switch
To
Advanced
Mode
|
Switch
To
Simple
Mode
.
• Simple
Mode,
which
is
the
default
mode,
is
useful
when
you
define
either
a
single
filter,
or
when
you
define
multiple
filters
that
all
have
an
AND
relationship.
This
mode:
• allows
only
AND
relational
operators;
it
does
not
allow
OR
operators.
• does
not
display
parentheses
columns
for
defining
complex
relationships.
• displays
a
Delete
icon
to
the
left
of
the
Filter
definition.
• Advanced
Mode
is
useful
when
you
are
defining
multiple
filters
having
at
least
on
OR
relationship.
This
mode:
• allows
specification
of
AND
and
OR
operators.
• display
parentheses
columns
for
defining
complex
relationships.
The
procedures
for
defining
filters
for
Logs
and
for
Reports
are
very
similar.