HP Storage Essentials Storage Resource Management Report Optimizer Software 6.0 Building Reports Using the Web Intelligence Java Report Panel (August 2008)

Using alerters to highlight key results268
Creating alerters
You create alerters by defining the conditions and formatting you want to highlight report
results that meet specific business criteria. For example, you can highlight results that fall
below a business target of $10K in red.
Using alerters makes important results stand out on reports. You can also define alerters
that will insert text comments or hyperlinks to related information into report cells
automatically when results hit or miss your business targets.
For a complete overview of alerters, see ”How alerters work” on page 263. The following
section of this guide explains how to build a new alerter.
Note: You cannot apply alerters to entire tables or forms, or to charts.
In order to create an alerter you need to complete three to five steps:
• launch the Alerter Editor and name the new alerter
• define one or multiple conditions
• personalize the formatting that will be applied to cell values when the condition(s)
defined for the alerter is true (optional)
• add sub-alerters (optional)
• save the alerter
Step 1: launching the Alerter Editor and naming a new alerter
To launch the Alerter Editor and name a new alerter:
1. With a document open in the Java Report Panel, verify that you are in Report View.
The Edit Report button is pressed in when you are in Report View.
2. Click a table column, a table row, a section cell, or a free-standing cell.
You can click the cell(s) where you want to apply the new alerter or click any cell now
and then apply the alerter to a different cell later.
A blue border appears on the selected cell(s).
3. Click the Alerters button on the report panel toolbar.
The Alerters dialog box appears.
4. Click New.
Sales revenue is selected