Viewing a report
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There are several ways to run a report. Choose one of the following:
- On the Report Definitions page, select a case series.
Select the row menu (
)
for the report definition, and select Run.
- When editing a report definition, click Save
& Run or Run.
- On the Interactive
Reports page, click
for an interactive report, and then click Run.
- For a query-based interactive report, you must
select a data configuration
and run a query. The application
runs the query and the report against source data for that data configuration.
The report is run against only cases that meet the query criteria.
- When you view a query-based report from the Interactive Reports page,
you select a data configuration against which to run a query. The
source data for the report is the set of cases in the selected data
configuration that match the report's query.
- On the Queries page, click
for a query, and then click Report.
- Drill down to the Cases page, and click Report.
- You can drill-down
on a count or graph element elsewhere in the application to run a
report definition against cases that make up the count or are represented
by the graph element.
The application runs the report and displays the report output.
Working with report data
- If you have the Create Report Definitions permission,
you can click Edit Definition. The Edit
Report columns page appears and you can modify the definition as needed.
- To save report output
so it can be viewed later, click Save Output.
(This option is not available if you are running a report definition
after drilling down.) You can also run a report definition and save
its output in a single step. For more information, see Creating
a Report Output.
- To create a new case series containing cases in
the report, click Create Case Series.
This option is available only if the case IDs in the first column
of the report contains links.
- To show the report data in a graph format, click
Choose Graph.
- To save the report as
an attachment to a topic, click Save to Topic
(available if the topics feature has been set up).
- To print the
report, click Print.
- To download report data,
click Download. The column names are created
from the labels in the report definition, followed by the breakdown
specifications.
- To show descriptive information below the report,
click Show Notes.
Managing report rows
- To specify how many rows should display at a time,
enter a number in the Rows per Page field
and press the Enter key. You can display
up to 999 rows on each page.
- To go to another page, you can do the following:
- To view the next page, click
.
- To view the previous page, click
.
- To view the specific page, enter a number in the
Page field and press the Enter key.
- To find specific text on a page, select Find
on the browser (Internet Explorer) Edit menu. For efficiency, you
may want to set the Rows per Page to a large number before using the
Find feature.
Sorting the report
You can sort a table by up to three columns. The current sort order
appears above the table. You can sort a column as follows:
- To sort a column, click the column header. The
column is sorted, and an arrow is displayed next to the column name
to indicate the sort order. To sort in reverse order, click the column
header again. The previous primary sort order (if any) becomes the
secondary sort order. The previous secondary sort order (if any) becomes
the tertiary sort order.
- Click Columns or Columns and Rows. (See Arranging
table columns.)
Note: In displayed reports,
sorting is case-insensitive.
Underlined counts (N) are links. Click the number to display a
menu from which you can drill-down. If specific case IDs appear in
the report as a link, click a case ID to view
case details.