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Title
How to edit templates to customise existing NetVault reports -
Description
How to customise NetVault reports for application versions released after NetVault 9.2?
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Cause
Since Netvault 10.0. report editor module is no longer available in the GUI, which makes it impossible to edit and customise reports from the web interface. -
Resolution
Since report Editor is no longer available, the only way to customise report is to edit template files directly.
Steps to follow:
- Identify the report to edit
- Identify the template file in Netvault\reports\templates , usually the template and report have similar name.
- Open the file and find out what "Class" is used by the report, for example, the class "Media"
- Open a command prompt and type the following in order to list all fields/columns available for this specific "Class":
.. Netvault Backup\util\nvreport -help fields "Media"
- All variables available for a report on this specific class (which in fact are columns) will be displayed
- Identify the variable name to be added to the report
- Add the chosen variable on the line %FORMAT in the template file used by report.
Example: here at the end of line %FORMAT adding:
<TD>%LIBRARYNAME</TD>
will add a new column "Library Name" to the report.
- Make sure new variables are used within these global delimiters "<TR>...</TR>"
Example: Each variable or column name is delimited by "<TD>....</TD>
%FORMAT "<TR><TD>%LABEL</TD><TD>%MEDIAGROUP</TD><TD>%BARCODE</TD><TD>%LASTWRITEDATE</TD><TD>%LASTREADDATE</TD><TD>%SPACEUSED</TD><TD>%SPACELEFT</TD><TD>%LOGICALSLOTPOSITION</TD><TD>%LIBRARYNAME</TD></TR>"- Save the template file edited and run the report to verify the results.