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Configuring general settings
- Click Reports > Report builder > General settings on the Site administrationmenu.
- Configure the settings to your preferences.
- Click the Save changes button.
*Reports saved to the file system are saved in the name format Export file system root path/username/report.ext where username is an internal username of the user who owns the scheduled report, report' is the name of the scheduled report with non-alpha-numeric characters removed, and ext is the appropriate export file name extension.
Settings
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| Format export options | You can decide which formats you wish to enable for exporting results from reports. See you in the Export options section. | - | ||
| Export to file system | Exporting to file system allows reports to be saved to a directory on the web server's file system, instead of only emailing the report to the user scheduling the report. This can be useful when the report needs to be accessed by an external system automation, and the report directory might have SFTP access enabled. | Reports saved to the file system are saved as Export file system root path/username/report.ext where username is an internal username of a user who owns the scheduled report, report is the name of the scheduled report with non alpha-numeric characters removed, and ext is the appropriate export file name extension. | ||
| File export path | Absolute file system path to a writeable directory where reports can be exported and stored. Setting executable and local paths need to be enabled first in config.php. |
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| Financial year start | This setting allows to set the start date of the financial year which is used in the reports content controls. | - | ||
| Global restriction behaviour for users with no active restrictions | Specifies what users will see when viewing a report with global restrictions enabled when they don't have any restrictions applied to them. | - | ||
| Enable global restrictions in new user reports | If checked all newly created user reports will have global report restrictions enabled. | - | ||
Global report restrictions number of records per page | Number of records per page allows you define how many records display on a report page. | - | ||
| Allow reports to show total count | When enabled Report Builder reports can be configured to show a total count of records, before filters have been applied. Please be aware that getting this count can be an expensive operation, and for performance reasons we recommend you leave this setting off. | - | ||
| Restrict initial display in all report builder reports | This setting controls how the report is initially displayed and is recommended for larger reports where you will be filtering the results (e.g. sitelogs). It increases the speed of the report by allowing you to apply filters and display only the results instead of initially trying to display all the data. When enabled, any embedded reports will not generate results until a filter is applied or an empty search is run. If it is disabled or there are no filters, results will display immediately. | - | ||
| Minimum scheduled report frequency | When this is set to Weekly you will see another option Scheduled Reports appear. | - | ||
| Schedule Reports | Allows you to set the minimum period a report can be run in, this is useful to prevent reports being run too frequently on larger sites and thus causing slowness for your system. If Minimum scheduled report frequency setting is set to:
All options are available for users with the totara_reportbuilder:overridescheduledfrequency capability. | - | ||
| Scheduled report recipients | You can decide which recipient options will be available when scheduling reports:
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| Default result fetch method | An advanced option that allows you to fine tune how results for the report are fetched from the database when displaying a single page of the table. By default the recommended approach for your database engine will be used. This is determined by the database engine itself. In situations where you are experiencing poor performance for a report changing this setting may result in improved performance. | Setting this to use a standard record set will result in report pages executing two distinct queries. The first to get a single page of results, and the second to get the total count of results for the report. Setting this to use counted recordset will result in a single query being made against the database that will return both a single page of results, and the total count of results. |
Export options
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If no options are selected, then the export option for reports will not be available. There are a number of export formats available from Report builder, these are:
- Excel format: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (.xls)
- CSV format: Comma-separated values file (.csv)
- ODS format: Open Office spreadsheet (.ods)
- PDF format: Portable Document Format (.pdf)
PDF format (Landscape): Portable Document Format (.pdf)
PDF landscape export (wkhtml2pdf): This only work if it has been enabled (see System paths) otherwise it has the prefix Disabled and cannot be used.
PDF portrait export (wkhtml2pdf): This only work if it has been enabled (see System paths) otherwise it has the prefix Disabled and cannot be used.
Export to Google Fusion: You will need to log into Google Fusion Table for this to work.
It is also helpful to note that where an RTL (right-to-left) language is used this will be supported. When RTL is used as part of an export, not only will the text itself be displayed correctly but so will the column orders.
The only exception is CSV format, as this does not have capabilities to store text direction property. For those, requiring RTL, after importing this CSV in their office suite, they need to enable RTL mode manually.
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