Create Report Configuration: Output Options (also Raw Report Output Properties)

In the Output Options page (also the Raw Report Output Properties page), you specify the report format and the order in which you want data displayed in the report. In addition, you can specify an output directory for the report and use post-processing commands on the report data.

To specify output options:

1. In the Output Format section, select the manner in which you want to view the report output. You can specify multiple output formats.

Output Format

Description

HTML

HTML report output can be viewed in an HTML browser.

XML

Report output is generated as XML. The Report Inbox provides a link to the XML output.

Image

Graphical report output is saved to files in PNG or JPEG format

RIF

Output in Report Interchange Format (RIF) is available for all reports except Summary Barchart reports. RIF is a simple, flexible, plain text format that is designed to pass tabular information between the report generator and another application, such as a spreadsheet.

Specify a delimiter—choose space, tab, or specify a custom delimiter.

Important:Do not use double quotes (“), single quotes (‘), or a backslash (\) as the RIF delimiter.

Text

Report output is saved to a text file.
2. In the Sort Order section, specify how you want the report output ordered. Report output can be ordered by feature name and by the breakdown category value. When you select breakdown category settings, default sort order settings are automatically set. You can override these default settings by changing the sort order specifications in the list.

To change the sort order:

a. Select the breakdown category value that you want to move.
b. Click the arrow buttons to move the value up or down in the list.
3. For Summary Barchart reports: From the Summarize list, choose how you want the report to show usage for each feature that was used. License usage is displayed as bars whose heights represent one of the following metrics.
• Number Used—Number of licenses checked out
• Percent Used—Percentage of available license hours used
• Hours Used—Number of available license hours used
• Max Used—Maximum number of licenses checked out at a time
4. Select the Additional Options that you want to apply.

Option

Description

Show Available Licenses

Select this option to show the number of available licenses for a particular feature.

Auto-Reduce Large Datasets

If the report dataset is particularly large, FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications will automatically reduce the number of data points.

Note:To avoid automatic data reduction, reduce the number of data points by choosing a different summary period or by narrowing the date range of the report.
5. In the Report Output Directory field, specify an absolute path for the output directory location—for example, C:\ManagerReports. The Report Output Directory is a folder located on the disk, where additional copies of the reports generated, will be saved. This directory is called the base directory, and the directory that you specify must already exist. The directory also needs to have write permission so the report output can be copied there.

Note:The Report Output Directory is in addition to the FlexNet Reporting’s internal reports repository, which is located at \data\reports\output on the FlexNet Reporting server. When you delete a FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications report, the report is deleted from the internal reports repository; however, reports contained in the Report Output Directory are not deleted. You must manually delete reports in the Report Output Directory.

6. In the Output Directory Options section, select one of the following options:
• Overwrite the existing contents—When the report is run, the output is copied to the directory specified in the Report Output Directory field.

Important:If this option is selected, all existing files in the Report Output Directory will be deleted before reports output is written to this directory.

• Do not overwrite. Create subdirectories using timestamps.—Creates subdirectories (in the report output directory) for reports based on their timestamps. The timestamp is of the format YYMMDDHHmmssSSS (where SSS represents milliseconds), for example, C:\ManagerReports\091027213046255 for October 27, 2009, 9:30:46 p.m. Each time the report is run, a new subdirectory is created.
• Do not overwrite. Create subdirectories using report names and timestamps.—Creates subdirectories (in the report output directory) for reports based on their configuration name. Each subdirectory, in turn, has subdirectories based on time stamps, for example, C:\ManagerReports\Usage_Over_Time_Sample1\091027213046 for the configuration “Usage Over Time Sample1,” run on October 27, 2009, 9:30:46 p.m.
7. In the Post-Processing Command field, specify any post-processing commands that you want to invoke after the report is generated.
8. Click Next.

See Also

Report Configuration Pages