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

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• Start drill on the existing report – the current report becomes drillable and when you
end drill mode, the report displays the drilled values.
• Start drill on a duplicate report – InfoView creates a duplicate of the current report
and you drill on the duplicate. When you end drill mode, both the original report and
the drilled report remain in the document.
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 data providers on large selections of data can take a significant 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 to decide whether you want to run the additional
query or not. In addition, the prompt allows you to apply filters to the extra dimensions you
include in the new query. This means you can restrict the size of the query to just 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.
For more information about extending the scope of analysis in a document, see ”Retrieving
more levels of data to the report” on page 374.
Synchronizing or not synchronizing drill on all blocks 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 with multiple report blocks:
• synchronize drill on report blocks
• drill on only the selected block