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Adding web-based reports to a summary view?

nickzourdos over 9 years ago

Hey gang, I'm really liking the flexibility that the web-based report writer gives you for layouts and resources. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to use one of these reports in a summary view? I'd love to have a report or two scroll across our NOC TV now that NPM 10.7 allows for multiple views.

Thanks!

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0 rob.hock over 9 years ago

Unfortunately we can't yet use a whole web-based report in a view. We can however create custom table / custom chart resources in views identical to those used in reporting.
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0 nickzourdos over 9 years ago in reply to rob.hock

Hi Rob!
I managed to find a way to work around this. I put the report in an iframe using a Custom HTML resource, and added a few <a name>'s as well to put the page where I want it. It's not the most graceful method but it might get the job done. I've got a feature request out there right now to include web-based reports in the view resource, but it got buried pretty quick! The report writer in the web console is easily the most powerful resource in NPM (in my opinion), I would love to see the layout flexibility incorporated into the views, even if it were a "toggle feature" like NOC views currently are.
Also! The NOC view feature could be greatly improved by simply allowing a user to define specific web pages or views in Orion as opposed to having to build each "tab" from scratch in the Left Navigation menu. Food for thought!
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0 rob.hock over 9 years ago in reply to nickzourdos

Well played sir! Yes, we are looking at future improvements along those lines.
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0 c.gura over 9 years ago in reply to nickzourdos

">nickzourdos,
Could you provide the Custom HTML you used for the Iframe to get it to display. I need to do the same thing.
Thanks
Charles
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0 nickzourdos over 9 years ago in reply to c.gura

You bet! It's a very hacky way of doing things and it's not always perfect, but here you go:

<html>

<head><a name="top"></a></head>

<body>

<iframe src="LINKTOREPORT" width="1080px" height="2000px" frameborder="0">

</body>

</html>
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0 Detroiter over 9 years ago in reply to nickzourdos

I use the same type of iFrames for several EOC reports (do not get me started on why....)
I included a browser checks since iFrames act differently in IE vs others with regards to size formatting. Here is what I use.


<iframe src="REPORT_URL---including quotes" width="100%" height="400"></iframe>

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0 nickzourdos over 9 years ago in reply to Detroiter

Thank you! I am by no means a web developer
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0 solpepsol over 9 years ago in reply to Detroiter

Thanks, as well. Non web dev here also. In case anyone wanted to know more about classid: What it does, why it works: The 25336920-03F9-11cf-8FD0-00AA00686F13 is the CLSID for the "Browse in place" action. Basically this registry entry is telling IE that for docs that have a mime type of application/json, just view it in place. Got this from stackoverflow.
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