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Creating Output and Reports

The settings you select here apply only to the report generated by your manual execution. They are not saved in the view definition.

Observe the following:

• The format (graph, table, trend or a combination of these) of the report generated by the Output Report option is determined by the settings in the Contents dialog of the View & Output Definitions option. For example, if you select Table and deselect Graph and Trend in the Contents dialog of the View & Output Definitions option and then generate the report from the Output Report option, the report will be table format only. The request for a Trend report is ignored if trend data is not available (that is, if trend data is not collected).
• If you want to save parameters for reports generated on a fixed schedule, see the section View and Output Definitions Dialog.

To create different kinds of output with the Windows Client and send output to different destinations

1. Select File, Output Report to display the Output Report dialog. Select how much of the report you want the Windows Client to generate as output. In the following example, we specify the first 10 rows and we have selected the Create a separate report for each row option:

   

2. (Optional) You can specify you want a separate report created for each row by selecting the Create a separate report for each row option.

   When this option is selected a separate report is created for each row specified and the reports are published at the destinations specified in the Destination dialog.

   Each report file is given a unique name by adding a key value to its name. The syntax of the file name is given_name (key_value).file_extension. You can specify the given_name in the destinations dialogs, if no given_name is provided then the default is used. For example, the default file name for the APCDASD Storage Group PDF will appear as “POOLS Report (APCDASD).PDF”.

   With this option only reports with table, trend, or both components are produced, and only the following report destinations and formats are supported:

   • Print
   • File - PDF format
   • File - HTML format
   • FTP Server - PDF format
   • FTP Server - HTML format
   • FTP Server - Excel Workbook (XLSX)
   • FTP Server - XML, Excel compatible (XML+XSD)
   • FTP Server - XML, CSV, Excel compatible (XLS)
   • FTP Server - CSV, Comma delimited (TXT)

   Note: Reports based on Light-Trend or Multi-Host views ignore this option.

   If either the destination or the format are not supported then the request is ignored. For example, requests for separate row reports for e-Mail, Web Publishing, Export into Excel and File (Raw Data) destinations are ignored, also requests for File - XML format, File - TXT format, and FTP Server - Excel (XSD+XML) format are ignored, and so on.

   This option has a significant effect on the report output, including the number of reports. For example, if you have specified 200 rows then 200 reports will be created. The Record Range dialog has a Click here for details link, if selected a window appears explaining this option further.

3. Select Destinations in the left pane. Choose one or more destinations for your output. In the following example, we selected Printer but you can select as many options as you want:

   

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Output Destinations