Environment
Novell
ZENworks 7.5 Asset Management - ZAM7.5
Situation
When exporting a
report within the Web Console we would rerun the actual report
which in some cases would take long periods of time depending onthe type of report. For example, from the Web Console, custom
reports, a report with a query that has 30,000 records can take
several minutes to run just to get the option to export the report
then the report takes that much longer.
Resolution
Fixed in
ZENWorks Asset Management 7.5 Interim Release 3.
On the menu
at the bottom of the custom report definition page, there are now
options to run to PDF, CSV, or Excel directly (hover over the
Run option and the others will appear).
Interim
Releases can be scheduled to run automatically or can be downloaded
manually at https://download.novell.com
. The Interim releases can be set up within the ZAM
Manager for the Task server to check the site on a scheduled basis,
and download and apply them automatically. Please refer to the Help
Section for details of how to set up automatic downloads if
desired.
Each interim
release is cumulative. If Interim Release 3 is not available
due to a newer interim release being placed on the website, be
assured that the code needed is in the later release.
Additional Information
These options will
always run the entire report. If you would like to run only 100
records at a time go to HTML first, and then select PDF, CSV, or
Excel. When the entire report is run (either here or later from the
HTML report, or when run as a scheduled report), the initial query
to get a record count is not run. This will be a big time
saver.
When running
scheduled reports we have made a change when the "maximum records"
is specified. Prior to this change, we would display "This is
a partial list containing N of a total of M records" when we got a
parrtial list. Now we display "This is a partial list -
the report was limited to N records". We do have to run the count
query when going to HTML, to determine if we are paging or not. The
combination of being able to go directly to PDF (etc.), and not
running the count query will be a big time saver.