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Executive Level Reporting?

Well, out of the box, the email reports look horrendous for executive level folks. The PDF's are just a scrunched up screenshot of the web page (With the "Export to PDF link there as well,) and the text version is just that, a text version. No graphs, images, nothing. Is there any way to make these reports look more presentable?

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Melanie.ODonovan

Hi,

Here is an Orion Team Blog that shows how to get charts into your reports.

ahthomas

I tried that, but the reports still look awful. Printable reports obviously don't work when doing graphs, and all this software seems to do is take a screenshot of the webpage and dump it in a PDF. I don't want the webpage, I want graphs and other things that are presentable to executives.

byrona

I agree that there is a lot of room for improvement when it comes to Orion and Reports. I am about 99% certain that this is on the list of things that SolarWinds plans to improve.

In the mean time, what specific type of report are you looking to create that you are unable to do now?

ahthomas

Let's hope that this is on the list of things to improve! It needs it.

As far as the specifics, I'm trying to do a monthly charted availability report. All I want are charts and percents. I don't want the whole webpage in screenshot form, it just looks atrocious.