How and when to choose Tabular View for creating custom report in EventLog Analyzer

How and when to choose Tabular View for creating custom report in EventLog Analyzer

Objective

This article offers you the steps to create custom report as Tabular View in EventLog Analyzer. It will guide you through the process of generating custom report as Tabular View and offer a brief idea on when to use this option for your spectific needs.

Prerequisites

  • Administrative role on the EventLog Analyzer user interface or Custom Report creation role.
  • Knowledge of the data sources and events you want to include in the report
  • Knowledge on what and when a tabular view option has to be selected.
 
Tabular View displays the data in the form of a simple table. This option has to be selected if you want to display the events in a table view having the fields as columns. This is one of the standard ways of data representation for easy access. You just need to frame the criteria for selecting logs for the report. You can generate different views of the same tabular view report. To create a new view, refer the Manage Report Views section.
Sample User Case of Tabular View:  You can create a table view for any specific requirements to view the data like Account lockout for service accounts.

Steps to follow

  1. Log in to EventLog Analyzer.
  2. Navigate to the "Reports" section.
  3. Click on Manage Report and Choose "+ Add New Report"
  4. Enter a name for your custom report and select the data sources you want to include.
  5. Click Report Group to add the new report to the desired group. The drop-down displays all available report groups under Custom Reports. Select one of these or create your own group and click '+'. If not specified, the custom report will be added to the Default Group.
  1. Select the Tabular View in Report type
  2. Set the criteria for the report. You can add multiple criteria and perform AND or OR operations between them. You can also add criteria to groups and perform AND or OR operators between the groups.
  3. You can use the field values available in the application. You can extract custom field as per your requirement, which can be used while creating a custom report. Refer how to extract custom fields in EventLog Analyzer to know more.
  4. Click Add to save them

 Tips

  • Regularly review and update your custom reports to ensure they meet your changing requirements.
  • Use Edit/Update option for the report customization options to tailor the report to your specific needs.
  • You can use Search tab to build the criteria easily for your custom report. Check out How to build criteria using Search for custom report in EventLog Analyzer to know more
 

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