This is going a little off-topic, but for now at least I'll respond in this thread:
Debbie Fligor wrote: > I just upgraded from 5.4 to 5.5 last week, and I like the new reports > starting interface better, but you can't put limits on queries. I'd love to > choose "%errors" and say anything reporting more than 10% errors, so instead > of giving me a list of all my "clean" interfaces, I get just the ones I need > to work on (and that's a lot smaller output to display). Instead of choosing > % utilization, being able to say anything with over 80% utilization in the > last week so I get the ones that we need to evaluate for upgrades. The > filters button doesn't show up on the data select page, only at the bottom of > the display the report page, so I can't pre-filter what I'm trying to see. > > so I guess this is kind-of a feature/help request. being able to use the > data for problem trends that we don't always catch on the maps themselves > because they are too transient to trigger a notifier, or just below a > threshold. > The new start page is modeled on MS Office templates. The goal is to provide a starting-point for common tasks with an absolute minimum of configuration; hence filters being available only later. In your case it sounds like this is really a performance issue; if the report didn't take so long to come up, then adding the filter later wouldn't be a problem. I guess what I'd say is this: 1. It doesn't help you right now, but we are moving towards having all the drop-downs populate on-demand, or in the background, rather than up-front. At least one such change will be present in 5.6, with others following later. 2. If you aren't already, try using Chrome or a very recent version of Firefox. Especially if you're on IE8 or earlier, a significant portion of the wait time comes from waiting on IE, not Reports itself. 3. Set up everything except the filters, then let it sit in a separate tab in the background while you do other stuff. Once it does come up, add the filter and then save the report. You can then load the saved report by clicking the 'saved reports' button at the bottom of the splash screen, eliminating at least some of the stuff that it needs to load up-front. I am a little surprised that performance is so poor, though. I don't remember whether you've already provided this info in any support tickets, but how many devices & interfaces are you monitoring? David ----------- David Schnur Dartware, LLC -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://forums.intermapper.com/viewtopic.php?p=4091#4091 ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [email protected]
