Combining items in domains

This topic provides guidelines about how to combine items in domains to create a useful report.

To create a useful report, you need at least two reporting objects: one measure and one dimension or one attribute. Avoid combining summary level query items with the detail level query items in a single report. For example, in the following figure, the number of servers on which a Compliance Job was run is counted twice for both servers. Therefore, a single report that combines the measure, Servers Attempted (summary-level query item) with the dimension, Server Name (detail-level query item) is not useful. For information about reporting objects, see Understanding reports, report packages, and reporting objects.

The following topics provide guidelines about how to combine items from multiple query subjects in various domains to create useful reports.

• Combining query items from the Audit domain
• Combining query items from the Command Usage domain
• Combining query items from the Compliance domain
• Combining query items from the Inventory and Change Tracking domains
• Combining query items from the Job Activity domain
• Combining query items from the Patch domain
• Combining query items from the Provisioning domain
• Combining query items from the RBAC domain

Related topics

Creating reports with Query Studio
Creating reports with Reports Studio