Managing report settings

Define the settings for style-based reports and know how to customize logo for reports.

Report parameters

From the Reports tab of the Global Settings > System Variables page, you can define some default settings for the style-based reports.

Parameter	Description
Encoding	Defines the encoding to be used by default when creating reports.
Style Sheet	Defines the style sheet to use by default when displaying style-based reports in one of the following ways: From the console, you can browse for a style sheet and apply it for style-based reports. 2 files are delivered with the software, but you can adapt these to your requirements or add custom style sheets. These must be located in the <InstallDir>/data/Vision64Database/reports/common/css directory of the master. The BMC.css file is the default file. It has a default width of *1024 pixels* . The Compatible.css file has the same values as the BMC.css file but no fixed width and is to be used if you are upgrading from an earlier version to be used with existing reports.

Parameter

Description

Encoding

Defines the encoding to be used by default when creating reports.

Style Sheet

Defines the style sheet to use by default when displaying style-based reports in one of the following ways:

From the console, you can browse for a style sheet and apply it for style-based reports.
2 files are delivered with the software, but you can adapt these to your requirements or add custom style sheets. These must be located in the <InstallDir>/data/Vision64Database/reports/common/css directory of the master. The BMC.css file is the default file. It has a default width of 1024 pixels . The Compatible.css file has the same values as the BMC.css file but no fixed width and is to be used if you are upgrading from an earlier version to be used with existing reports.

The logo is only applied to style-based reports. It cannot be applied to template-based reports.

You can either select an available logo from the drop-down list or add a new logo for the report.

Click Browse.
Select the image and click Open.
You can resize the image by using the cropping tool that borders the selected image. You can zoom in or zoom out the image by using the pointing device (mouse wheel) on your computer.
Click OK.
To apply the selected logo, click Apply.
To reset back to the default logo, click Reset.

Note:

You cannot delete a logo from the console.

If you do not want any logo on the reports, do not select any logo from the drop-down logo menu. The logo name is the same as the filename.

Supported formats are PNG and JPG

Minimum logo size is 272 x 91 pixels