Adding comments to a report
Use the Add Comment icon to access the Report Instance Comments window. Add comments you want to associate with the report instance generated. You can enter specific information that other users may benefit from by looking at that particular instance of the report. Report instance comments are always displayed after global comments in the report.
For example, consider an Element Distribution Summary report created to denote availability of Solaris processes on a server. Report instances are to be generated daily, and the server is considered to be in good state if the Availability is >=99.99%.
On a particular day, due to power outage, availability falls below 99%, and the server is considered to be in bad state.
Use the Report Instance Comments window to indicate to other users that the overall health of the server is good and due to an unforeseen condition, the server's condition was bad for a day.
To add a comment
- Click the Add Comment icon
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The Report Instance Comments window is displayed. - Type in your comments and click OK.
If required, change the font size. Click URL Tag to enclose URLs, which are part of comments, in tags. This creates hyperlinks for URLs in report comments.
A message indicating that the comment has been updated successfully is displayed. - Click OK.
If the Show Comments at option was not selected for a report, then the Report Instance Comments window displays the option. If you select the option here and specify the location of comments, the same is updated for the report and the Show Comments at option is not displayed for the report instance.