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Generating Reports

WebLOAD Analytics enables you to quickly and easily generate reports in various formats. A report is a concatenation of all open charts, or of a subset of your choice. You can then publish the report in various formats.

Note: Whether or not a title page is displayed depends on the master template in use. For more information about modifying the master template, see Defining Your Analytics Preferences.

Creating New Reports

A report is a compilation of all or some of the charts open in the Charts area. A prerequisite to generating a report is to create the charts you wish to include in the report.

To generate a WebLOAD Analytics report:

  1. Select File > Generate Report or click generate report

    The Generate Report: Report Settings window appears, listing all open charts.

    generate report settings

  2. Specify a name for the report.

  3. Select the charts to include in the generated report.

  4. Optionally, change the order in which the charts will be displayed by selecting a chart and clicking Up or Down.

  5. Click generate.

A Preview of the report appears. You can:

Printing a Report

To print a WebLOAD Analytics report:

  1. Open the report you wish to publish. For more information seeOpening Saved Reports
  2. Click generate report icon to generate a report preview.
  3. In the report preview, click print. The Print window opens.
  4. Select the print options you require and click OK. The report is printed.

Publishing Reports

WebLOAD Analytics enables you to publish a report in the following formats:

  • Doc (Microsoft Word).
  • PDF (Adobe Reader).
  • XLS (Excel). Note the following:
    • Summary tables (below the graph) are exported if they are displayed. To ensure that summary tables are displayed, set the SHOW_TABLES parameter to True in the charts you want displayed (as described inModifying Chart Parameters ).
    • To work with the data more conveniently, change the Reports master template to Raw (as described inDefining Your Analytics Preferences ).
  • XSL (Excel 97-2003). Note that it is preferable to use XSLX format whenever possible.
  • HTML (Browser, Internet Explorer).
  • RTF (Rich Text Format). Note that it is preferable to use Doc format whenever possible.

To publish a report:

  1. Open the report you wish to publish. For more information seeOpening Saved Reports

  2. Click generate report icon to generate a report preview.

  3. Click publish in the report preview toolbar to publish your report as the default format specified in the Preferences window,

    -Or-

    Click the adjacent arrow to select a different report format.

    The Save As window opens to the location specified in the Preferences window.

  4. Select a location and name for your report and click Save. The report is published in the format chosen and saved to the location you specified.

Saving Reports

When you save your report, it is saved to a default location, unless you specify a different location in the Save to field. To change the default location, seeDefining Your Analytics Preferences

To save your report:

  1. Select File > Save or click save.

    If this is the first time you are saving your report, the Save As window opens. If you have already specified a location in the Save As window, your file is saved to the default save location.

    Save As

  2. Enter the path to which you wish to save the report, or click Browse to navigate to the location.

  3. Click OK. The report is saved to the specified location.

Opening Saved Reports

WebLOAD Analytics reports are by default saved to the location specified in the Analytics tab of the Preferences window. You can open a previously saved report from the Recent Reports tab, or you can retrieve your report directly from your file system. For information about changing the default location for saved reports, see`Defining Your Analytics Preferences

Opening Reports from the Recent Reports Tab

To open a report from the Recent Reports window:

  1. Click the Recent Reports tab. The Recent Reports window opens.

    Recent Reports Window*

    Note: The number of reports listed in this window is defined in the Preferences window (seeDefining Your Preferences . By default, the 20 most recent reports are listed chronologically, with the most recent listed first.

  2. Click the Name column header to toggle between the following sorting options:

    • Sort alphabetically (A-Z).
    • Sort alphabetically (Z-A).
    • Display the most recently used reports first.

  3. Double-click the report you wish to open. You can simultaneously open multiple reports by holding down Ctrl or Shift, clicking the reports, and pressing Enter.

    The charts comprising the report are displayed in the Charts area. All previously opened charts are closed.

Note: To publish or print the report, you must first click generate report to generate a report preview, and then use the publish and print options in the report preview toolbar.

Opening a Report From the File System

To open a report from the file system:

  1. Select File > Open Report or click open. The Select Report File window appears.

  2. Browse to the report you wish to open and click Open. Note that WebLOAD Analytics reports have a .report extension.

    The charts comprising the report are displayed in the Charts area. All previously opened charts are closed.

Note: To publish or print the report, you must first click generate report to generate a report preview, and then use the publish and print options in the report preview toolbar.

Modifying Report Appearance

The general appearance of the report is determined by the reports master template being used. You can influence the report appearance in the following ways:

Note: The appearance of each chart in the report is determined by the reports master template, not the chart master template.