Customizing reports

You can customize reports, such as changing the order of the columns. You can then exit without saving your changes and, therefore, preserve the system defaults. You can also save your changes using one of the following two options:

Option

Description

Defining new default settings

You can define your own defaults for each type of user-generated report. Each user of the system can save his or her own default settings. Define new defaults if you want to change the settings for reports that you run regularly.

For example, if you set new defaults for backup reports, the new settings apply to all subsequent backup reports.

Creating custom reports

Settings saved as a custom report apply only when you execute that particular report. You can create and save multiple custom reports. Create custom reports for reports that you execute less frequently.

For example, for backup reports, you can choose to enable a column that states whether a backup was synthesized, but you might not want this column enabled for all of your backup reports. In this case, you could create a custom report that you run only when you want to see whether a backup was synthesized.

To customize a report, configure each of the desired options and then save the settings as the default or as a custom report. (See To save default report options and To save a custom report.)

See the following options for customizing reports:

     To enable/disable report columns 

     To sort reports by a column or by multiple columns

     To change the order of columns

     To modify the width of columns