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September 28th, 2011 09:00
Report Menus
Are any details about Report Menu creations documented?
The first obvious question is, how does a report menu determine what from a current line (cell? item?) in a report is an input parameter for the drill-down report?
My custom reports don't typically have more input parameters than date-range and servers-in-scope (ie, based on View). Is there a way to take more input than that?
An example might help:
| TSM Level | Total | Windows | Unix | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5.5.1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| 6.1.0.0 | 1836 | 1104 | 732 | 0 |
| 6.1.2.1 | 63 | 5 | 58 | 0 |
| 6.2.2.0 | 925 | 872 | 52 | 1 |
| 6.2.2.1 | 417 | 25 | 392 | 0 |
| 6.2.3.0 | 105 | 104 | 1 | 0 |
I'd like to be able to drill-down into "all the clients on '6.1.0.0' " or even "all the Unix clients on '6.1.0.0' ." I already have a report that does client level details as well as this "client level summary" report recreated above, but invoking it from a report menu with a right-click doesn't seem to be at all sensitive to the line of the report I clicked on; it just gives me everything.
Am I expecting too much? Or am I missing a way to pass parameters to the report being invoked.
DavidRussell1
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September 29th, 2011 01:00
Hi Nick,
The way you would do this is that you would need to create a customized drill-down report, and within that customized report you would need to add a condition on the data source. In this example you would need to create a report that contains the Backup Client Configuration data source and on that data source add a condition of:
Field name: Software Version
Operator: equal to
Value Type: Variable
Variable Name: TSM Level
This will then only return clients where the Software version is equal to the TSM Level in the row you click on in the top level report.
Thanks
David
David Russell
EMC Technical Support
dplaflamme1
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September 29th, 2011 08:00
When I submitted this question, I half expected I'd end up muttering the following phrase (say it with me!):
"Aha! So that is what that field is for!"
I just had no idea which field I'd be saying it about, nor the nuances of that.
Thanks, David!
Nick