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How are reports assigned to categories on the website?

patriot over 11 years ago

I remember seeing an answer to this question at some point in the past, but as usual, searching is very difficult at best on Thwack.

How are the grouping categories that appear on the Reports web page determined? Can they be edited?

I know that when I create a report in Report Writer and save it in a category named "My Reports", there will appear on the website Reports page a category named "My Reports". But, it will be listed under an additional header. Can I control the names of those headers and what report categories appear under them?

Thank you.

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0 patriot over 11 years ago

Anyone?
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0 Sohail.Bhamani over 11 years ago

You can control this. If you open up the report file in a text editor, you will find the Category listed in the top. Just know that changing this will reflect immediately, but if you then open it up in the Report Writer, it will go back to what it was.
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0 RandyBrown over 11 years ago

I believe that the Report Group field in Orion Report Writer is what you are referring to. To change the category that the report falls under, simply change the Report Group.
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0 patriot over 11 years ago in reply to Sohail.Bhamani

Actually, I was referring to the BOLD groupings that appear on the website Reports page. The lighter titles there are the ones that correspond to the Report Group in Report Writer. How can I change the name/add to the bold categories on the website. I seem to remember seeing an answer to this some time back, but cannot locate it on Thwack.
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0 RandyBrown over 11 years ago in reply to patriot

Try this...
Edit your report file in a text editor and at the top of the file, look for ModuleTitle="{bold grouping name}". Change the {bold grouping name} inside the quotes to whatever you want it to say and save the report. Go to the Orion Reports web location and verify that the grouping category has now changed.
I have successfully changed a report using ReportWriter AFTER modifying the ModlueTitle and it appears to stay put.
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0 Sohail.Bhamani over 11 years ago in reply to RandyBrown

This was much better said than the way I mentioned it above. This is what you are looking for.
If you are looking for the report files so you can edit them, try here:
c:\Program Files (x86)\SolarWinds\Orion\Reports
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