Reporting tasks are where you generate customized queries about the entities, activities, and events in your Security Center system for investigation or maintenance purposes. Most investigation and maintenance tasks are reporting tasks.
This section takes you on a tour of the reporting task layout, and describes the common elements of most reporting tasks. The Area activities task is shown as an example. You can open the Area activities task by typing its name in the Search box on the homepage.
| A | Number of results | Displays the number of returned results. A warning is issued when your query returns too many rows. If this happens, adjust your query filters to reduce the number of results. |
| B | Query filters | Use the filters in the Filters tab to set up your
query. Click a filter heading to turn it on ( ) or off. Invalid filters display as Warning or
Error. Hover your mouse over the filter to view the reason it is
invalid. |
| C | Export, print, or add to dashboard | Click to export your generated report, print it, or add the report to a dashboard. |
| D | Columns and sorting results | Right-click a column heading to select which columns you want to show in the report pane. You can also configure a custom sort order for the results using multiple columns as the sorting criteria. |
| E | Report pane | View the results of your report. Drag an item from the list to a tile in the canvas, or right-click an item in the list to view more options associated with that item. For example, launching another report related that report result. |
| F | Tile commands | Commands related to canvas tiles:
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| G | Generate and save report | Click to run and save the report directly to a file (CSV or Excel format).
This button is disabled if you have invalid filters. For more information, see Generating and saving reports. |
| H | Generate report | Click to run the report. This button is disabled if you have not selected any query filters, or if you have invalid filters. While the query is running, the button changes to Cancel. Click Cancel to interrupt the query. |
| I | Filters tab | Use the Filters tab to customize and filter your searches. The Filters tab
is only shown in reporting tasks. NOTE: Click the Area view tab to show the
area view, and select entities to view in the canvas.
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| J | Tiles or Charts | If the report supports tiles, open the chart view using the toggle button
( ) at the top right of the task. Otherwise,
open the chart view by clicking the Charts button
( ).
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) to show the Tiles view below the
report pane.