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Reports allow users to:
View and analyze ServiceNow data prepared on an ad-hoc basis
Reports can be run:
manually or scheduled to run automatically
Where would you navigate in the platform to learn about Reports?
All > Reports > Getting Started
How many types of reports does the base instance come with?
Over 25 including Pareto, Donut, Heatmap, Speedometer, Dial, Single Score, Pie, Semi Donut, Bubble, Multi-Level PivotTable, Line, Column, Area, Spline, Bar, Histogram, Horizontal Bar, List, Funnel, Calendar, Pyramid, Box, Trend, Control, Trendbox, Map, PivotTable and Text Analytics.
How to access the Report Designer?
All > Reports > View / Run
What facilitates the Report Designer?
The Report Designer allows users to easily create reports by following guided flows to configure, preview, edit and share reports.
What are the 4 sections of an Report Designer?
- Data
- Type
- Configure
- Style
What tables are restricted from the reporting modules?
System tables such as: syslog, syslog_transaction, sys_attachment and sys_email.
Everytime you make an adjustment to your report remember to click:
Run
Update (in Reporting) means:
Overwrite report and return to the report list
Insert (in Reporting) means:
Save a duplicate copy and return to the report list
Insert and Stay (in Reporting) means:
Save a duplicate copy of the report, remaining on the report
Save as report source:
Allows to create a pre-defined data set that can be used for created reports (need a role)
How to make a report visible to a particular group or user?
Use the Share option to select Groups and/or users
Steps to publishing a report:
- Click Share icon and choose Publish
- Copy report link to copy URL
- Open URL in a browser
What needs to be enabled to publish reports?
System property glide.report.published_reports.enabled
How can you share reports?
- Share to users/groups
- Schedule to run and be emailed as an attachment automatically
- Add to Dashboard
- Export to PDF
- Publish
How can you report on Catalog Items?
- Filter based on Variables
- Report based on Variables (configure section)
Tags provide:
An easy way to categorize, flag and locate records
How can tags be created?
From a list or for view against any record
How in the List view can you create Tags?
Righ-click Record Context Menu > Assign Tag
How can you assign a tag in a form view?
Click More Options > Add Tag
What are the 3 ways to add tags?
- List view > right-click > Assign Tag
- Form view > More Options > Assign Tag
- Add Tag column to list view and add a tag directly into the record
How to access personal tags most easily?
- My Tags module
- My Tagged Documents
What role do you need to have to set tags as Viewable to Everyone?
admin or tags_admin
What is the difference between Reports and Performance Analytics?
Reports capture the current state of platform data, Performance Analytics provides information about performance over time (iteratively)
Performance Analytics (PA) allows users to:
Create Dashboard with widgets to visualize data over time to identify areas for improvement
How is Performance Analytics architectured?
Widget, Tables, Data Collector and Dashboard