Reports

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Virtual System Administrator™ provides comprehensive reporting for all applications. Reports can be customized, using report parameters, and filtered by organization, machine group, machine ID or view definition. You can output reports to PDF, HTML, or Excel document and brand reports with your own logo, cover page, header and footer. Reports can be scheduled to run automatically and on a recurring basis. They can be private or shared, distributed to the Inbox of VSA users or to email recipients. An optional "requires approval" step is provided, just prior to distribution. Reports can also be bundled into Report Sets, enabling you to schedule a standard batch of reports. Your own Schedule reports list shows you every report you have access to, so you can always locate any pending report you've created and scheduled or any report you've received.

See the following topics for an overview of working with reports.

• Report Definitions
• Report Folder Trees
• Publishing a Report Immediately
• Data Filters
• Scheduling / Rescheduling a Report
• Managing Scheduled Items
• Approving / Rejecting Reports
• Report and Report Set User Security
• Legacy Report Definitions

Terms and Concepts

• Published Reports - Published reports contain the layout and data for a certain date, time, scope and other criteria and are distributed to a selected set of recipients. To see new data in the same report, the report must be republished and redistributed.
• Report Definitions - A report is published from a report definition. Report definitions contain all the default settings that determine the content, layout and file format of the published report. You can override these defaults when you publish the report.
• Report Templates - A report definition is created by copying settings from a report template. Report templates define all the default settings for a a report definition. There are two types of report templates:
  • Custom - Customizable report templates.
  • Legacy - Fixed layout report templates provided in earlier releases.
• Report Categories - Report templates are organized by report template categories.