HP Storage Essentials Storage Resource Management Report Optimizer Software 6.0 Performing On-Report Analysis with Web Intelligence (August 2008)

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• how to select the drill options appropriate for your analysis
Available drill options
This section describes the various options available to you when you perform drill analysis
on Web Intelligence reports.
Start drill on the existing report or on a duplicate report
When you drill on a report, you can:
• Start drill on the existing report – the current report becomes drillable and when you
end drill mode, the report displays the drilled values.
Or
• Start drill on a duplicate report – InfoView creates a duplicate of the current report
and you drill on the duplicate. This means you can compare the results of the original
report with the results you discover during your drill analysis.
Being prompted if a drill action requires additional data
When you drill the results displayed on a Web Intelligence report, you may want to drill to
higher- or lower-level information that isn’t included in the scope of analysis for the
document. When this is the case, Web Intelligence needs to run a new query to retrieve
the additional data from the data source.
Since queries on large selections of data may take a long time to be completed, you can
choose to be prompted with a message every time a new query is necessary. The prompt
message asks you whether you want to run the additional query or not. In addition, the
prompt lets you apply filters to the extra dimensions you include in the new query. This
means you can restrict the size of the query to only the data necessary for your analysis.
Note: You need permission from your administrator to drill out of the scope of analysis
during a drill session.
Synchronizing drill on all tables and charts in the report
Each table, chart, or free standing cell in a report represents a specific block of data.
There are two ways to drill on a report that contains multiple blocks:
• synchronize drill on all report blocks
• drill on only the selected block