Report Controls
There are a series of buttons in the lower right of each reports pane; a description of each of these buttons follows:
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This button allows the user to enable (make visible) or disable (make invisible) the columns that constitute the report. |
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This button allows the user to save a default report based on the column order, column width, and sort preferences of the current report. |
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This button allows the user to create a custom report based on the changes made to the current report. |
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This button allows the user to print the report. |
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This button allows the user to save all of the columns available (not just visible) of the report in the comma-separated value (CSV) format. Using this feature allows the user to use a third-party tool to have complete control with respect to the raw report data. |
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This button allows the user to close the current report and return to the front page of the report subsystem. |
There are some reports that have either a graphical button (which appears as a chart) or a combination selection box in the lower left of the report pane. The graphical button causes a graphical view of the report to be displayed. The combination selection box allows the user to specify the date range for the report.
There are some reports that have a date range selector that allows you to choose the range of dates that will be included in the report. There are a number of pre-defined date ranges that provide tremendous flexibility in generating your reports. In addition to the pre-defined intervals, you may also specify a Custom To Date, in which you specify a start date and the end date is today's date. For the Custom Date range, you specify both start and end dates. For the Alerts report, the results may not be intuitive based on the date range selected. This is because alerts maintain the date on which they were originally raised but are displayed based on the date at which they were last modified. For example, if an alert were first raised 10 days ago, but updated yesterday, a date range of Yesterday will include this alert.