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Report Duplication Woes (duplication over-writing all previous content)

So I was trying to build a report that would print out a list of devices that did not match the current code levels for the code we've evaluated and recommended for prod.  I was basing this off of a previous report I had built that listed all devices by type and by image levels.  Now I ran into trouble, or should I say hours of wasted work, when I found out that everytime I was duplicating a content section and then changing the content to match a specific device type, Solarwinds was then going back and changing all of the previous content sections that I had duplicated from to match what I had just created.  Which is not what I wanted.  Here's some screen shots of what I'm talking about.

Here's the report I was trying to build.  I wanted a section of the report for each device type on my network (e.g. 2960X, 3560X, 6880X, etc).  I built the 2960X section, ran the preview and all looked good.  From there I duplicated that, and changed the content to match the new device type.

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When I got further along and I did another preview, I then noticed that all sections were displaying content for whichever was the last section that I did.

As you can see here, all sections are showing data for the last section I did (68xx).

OutputReport.png

Here's the content I was trying to get.  This one obviously was the one I built last for 68XX, and having the report display anything that didn't match a specific IOS version.

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Why is every section now showing the same data?  What use is the duplication button if it's only going to allow me to show the exact same data and not a modification of the previous data?

  • "Data source" is a unique object, you might, for example, want to use the same source for a report and a chart.  For each time you want a different list of objects you have to create it as a new datasource.  Sucks when you stumble across things the hard way.  I think it would probably be more a bit better if it behaved the way you expected where each resource was separate, you can check if there is already a feature request for that.