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Specify Reporter Preferences

Reporter preferences define the settings for administrators and all users. You can customize the reporter preferences to present the report the way you want it.

To specify reporter preferences

1. Click Tools, Preferences from the menu bar.

   The Preferences window appears.

2. Click the administrator tab and specify the settings for the administrator:

   Information Section

   Defines whether you want to display the tips in the report's information pane or use old style message boxes. Tips are marked with a yellow bulb icon.

   Run Report Section

   Defines the user's personal preferences regarding the appropriate actions to take place after running a report.

   Results Section

   Defines the report viewing settings.

3. Click the Global Settings tab and specify settings that affect all users of the DSM Reporter and can only be changed by the Administrator.

   Auto Results Section

   Specifies the number of auto-history result sets to be kept under Results in the Contents tree. Older results are deleted permanently from the database. With respect to the user interface, the administrator even may choose to delete folders that still contain files.

   Scheduled results to keep by default Section,

   Specifies the number of scheduled results to be kept by default.

   Restrictions Section

   Specifies that only administrators can reset statistics and that only administrators can edit result count for scheduling.

   User Interface Section

   Allows the deletion of non-empty folders, performance of a consistency check and so on.

   Enterprise Section

   Lets you include the domain name in the new and imported templates when the reporter runs in at the enterprise manager.

Note: For more information about the Preferences dialog, see the DSM Reporter Help.