The HTML Report format uses tables to display the information reported. It has been designed for easy side-by-side attribute comparisons. Each information category has its own column and the information reported for each object is inserted as rows.
The report view also has a set of options which can be used to manage the format of the view. For instance, you can control the number of rows displayed simultaneously, sort the information, search or filter the information. These options are explained in detail below.
To export the information contained in the table into a comma separated value, click on the export in CSV button located at the top right corner of the report. The browser then prompts you to save or open the CSV data file. Once the information is saved in CSV format, it can easily be imported into other applications such a Microsoft Excel® for further processing.
By default, 30 rows of information is displayed per page. However, you can set this number to any desired value by entering the number of rows to display in the Amount field. Then press on the OK button to its right. The Amount field is located in section Figure1-A, to the right of the Search field.
Remember that the time to load a report view page is directly related to the number of columns and rows to be displayed. The number of columns cannot be changed once the report has been generated because they correspond to the selected report attributes. If a report takes too long to load, reduce the amount of rows to display on a page.
If the report contains a number of objects larger than the configured number of rows per page, a page selector is displayed at the bottom of the page (Figure1-C). The page selector allows you to navigate through the available pages in the report. You can also directly select the last or first page.
The report view allows you to specify information filters in order to narrow down the information displayed. Filtering is done by searching for a string or by specifying a column filter.
Enter a search string in the Search field located in the Figure1-A section and click on the OK button to its right. Searches are not case sensitive.
Only the rows which include the search string within it are displayed. All other rows are not displayed. The number of available pages is updated accordingly. To reset the result set to the full report, click on the Reset search link (Figure1-A).
Some column headers of the report view (Figure1-B) contain a filter option beneath them. The filter selection box contains one entry for each unique value that the column may have. This is a very useful and an easy way to select particular objects or objects with a particular configuration.
For instance, consider the report shown in Figure 1. The Owner, From, Account Disabled, NT Account Name UNC and Password Age column headers have a filter box below them.
To view only the user accounts which are disabled, click on the Account Disabled filter selection box and select the TRUE value.
To view information about the user John Doe, click on the Owner filter selection box and select the John Doe entry.
You can select multiple filters simultaneously. To reset a filter, click on its selection box again and select the no filter entry.
Each column header has a descending (down arrow) and ascending (up arrow) sort button (Figure1-B). To sort the result set for a particular column, click on the desired sort button.
To reset a sort, click on the Reset sort link (Figure1-A) or click on the column header name used in the last sort operation.
You can set rows in select mode to differentiate them from other rows. To select a row, simply click on it. To select multiple rows, press and keep pressed the [CTRL] key and click on the desired rows.
To reset a selection, click on the Reset select link (Figure1-A).