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Viewing Report Data
You can view inventory reports in Extensible Markup
Language (XML), Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF), Microsoft
Excel, or text format. If you select PDF or Excel format, depending
on the client (browser and operating system) MIME setting, Acrobat
Reader or Excel will either appear inside the browser, or run as a
standalone application.
XML
To view a report in XML,
follow these steps:
- Select and open the report you want.
- In the Report Result window, click XML. The report appears
in the Report Result window in XML. Save it using the File > Save
menu of the browser.
Microsoft Excel
To view a report in Microsoft Excel, follow these steps:
- Select and open the report you want.
- In the Report Result window, click Excel. Microsoft Excel
opens and displays the current report. You can manipulate the report
in Excel, and save the file in XLS file format.
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When you convert a report such as All Inventory
Events to Microsoft Excel format, the time and date records in the
Time column may not appear in the correct format. To format the Time
column records correctly, follow these steps:
- In Microsoft Excel, select the Time column.
- Right-click to open the Format Cells dialog box.
- Click the Number tab.
- Select Time in the Category list box.
- Select the correct time and date format in the Type list
box.
- Click OK.
- Adjust the width of the Time column, if necessary, so
that the entire value can be displayed.
If the width of the Time column is narrower than
the time value being displayed, a series of #### characters
appear.
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Adobe Acrobat PDF
To view a report in Adobe PDF, follow
these steps:
- Select and open the report you want.
- In the Report Result window, click PDF. Adobe Acrobat
Reader opens and displays the current report. You can manipulate the
report in Adobe Acrobat, and save the file in PDF file format.
Text
You can view Inventory Management System reports
in text format.
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Note:
You can view reports in text format for all report
types except Hardware Inventory Summary and Licensing Inventory Summary.
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Table 33 describes the supported text format.
Table 33: Report
Text Formatting Options
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Text Format
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Option
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Description
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Encoding
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ISO-8859-1
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Also called ISO-Latin or Latin-1, this character set is used
for HTTP (the transport protocol for Web documents) and is also used
in the creation of HTML documents.
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US-ASCII
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American Standard Code for Information Interchange, the standard
character set for use on the Internet.
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UTF-8
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8-bit Unicode Transformation Format, a lossless, variable-length
character encoding for Unicode.
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UTF-16
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16-bit Unicode Transformation Format, a character encoding form
that provides a way to represent a series of abstract characters from
Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 as a series of 16-bit words suitable for
storage or transmission by way of data networks.
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Line separator
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DOS
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DOS and Windows operating systems use carriage return and line
feed (CR/LF) as the line separator.
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UNIX
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UNIX uses LF as the line separator.
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Separator character
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, (comma)
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Character used to separate report data columns.
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; (semicolon)
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Character used to separate report data columns.
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tab
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Character used to separate report data columns.
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| (pipe)
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Character used to separate report data columns.
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space
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Character used to separate report data columns.
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none
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No character used to separate report data columns.
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Include titles
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Yes
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Includes report data column titles.
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No
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Does not include report data column titles.
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To view a report
in text format, follow these steps:
- Select and open the report you want.
- In the Report Result window, click the Text options that
you want.
- Click Get Text.
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