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DeviceExpert provides the option to create your own reports based on your needs. For example, you would require a particular report, say 'Startup-Running Conflict Report' to be generated only for certain devices that you deem critical. Or you may wish to view the 'Startup-Running Conflict Report' in the form of a pie chart to get a quick picture of the quantum of changes. Or you may wish to have the above reports in different format - that is different tabular structure with or without pie charts. Or you wish to have a comprehensive report that is a combination of the default reports. In such cases, you may go in for creating your own reports.
click "Reports" tab
go to "Custom Reports" tab on the left-side
click "All Custom Reports". This lists the already available customized reports, if any
click "Add"
enter a name for your report in the text field for "Name"
select format (table/pie chart/both) in which the required reports are to be generated
provide report creation details - who created the report for whom (optional)
choose the devices whose details are to be included in the report - you can either choose a list of "specific devices" or a "Device Group" [if you choose a device group, all the devices in the group will be included]
provide the time period for the report - whether reports to be generated with the data as on current date and time or reports for a specified time period
click "Add". Your custom report has been added. It will be listed in the "All Custom Reports" list.
To generate the added report
click the action item "Generate"
the required report will be displayed
DeviceExpert generates reports in the form of tables and graphs in a pre-defined layout - that is, the tables bearing the report details are presented in a specific arrangement top to bottom and right to left. For instance, assume that you have added a custom report "abc" to view Configuration Changes report, Network Inventory report and Startup-Running conflict report in a single page. By default, you will find these reports getting printed on a single page in a specific order from top to bottom (say, Configuration Changes report at the top, Network Inventory Report in the middle and Startup-Running conflict report at the bottom).
You can rearrange the order of these reports by customizing the layout. You can view two reports side-by-side and place the third one below the two and vice-versa. You can rearrange the components of the report left to right and top to bottom in any desired order, using the layout customization wizard of DeviceExpert.
To customize the layout,
click "Reports" tab
go to "Custom Reports" tab on the left-side
click "All Custom Reports". This lists the already available customized reports, if any
select the name of the custom report whose layout is to be changed
click "Customize"
table layout customization wizard opens
all the available components of the selected custom report are listed on the right-hand side of the wizard
the present arrangement of components of the report are presented in the work area on the left-hand side of the wizard also
use drag and drop to rearrange the components and create the desired layout
you can also add new components to the layout from the side-bar in the right-hand side of the wizard
click "save changes"
click "Generate"
against the name of the custom report whose layout was changed
you will see the layout of the custom report in the modified form
To edit reports
select the name of the report to be edited
click the icon
To remove "Custom Reports"
select the name of the report to be deleted
click "Remove"
You can schedule automatic generation of custom reports at required time. This has been captured comprehensively in the previous section. Please refer to that.
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