Working with Reports 89
4. Reporting Basics
You might want to create a more complex report that uses more than one
template. For example, if you launch two real-time templates and a
historical template, the report contains three components. You save the
report definition in the same way you save a single-component report
definition. However, the multiple-component report definition
references three templates instead of one. You can use up to ten
templates to create a single report.
Multiple-component reports are useful in displaying different types of
data in the same report. Real-time components display current data and
historical components display data based on a range of dates and times
that you enter.
The following example shows a report that has four components:
This example is one report, not four different reports. You can
distinguish the difference by looking at the title bars of each component.
A report component displays a template name (for example,
persvc02_calls_status). A report window displays a .CMB title in its title
bar. This report example is shown in Shuffle Mode, which is a display
mode that allows you to move and resize report components on the
screen.
A multiple-component report can be enclosed in one window or
expanded by clicking on the Maximize and Minimize buttons.
Expanding the report removes the window border and report title bar. In
addition, three options in the Window menu place a window around a
multiple-component report: Tile, Layer, and Cascade. These options are
used in arranging reports on the Monitor ICR screen.