Customizing a report output

Data Insight enables you to rename the default column names for the reports you want to generate. For any report type, you can rename its default column names by creating and editing the properties file for that report type.

To customize a report output header

  1. Create a <Report_name>_header.properties file corresponding to the report type, where <Report_name> denotes the report type name. For those reports whose name contains the term user/group, replace the slash(/) with a dash(-). For example, while naming a properties file for the report type User / Group Permissions, name it as User - Group Permissions_header.properties.

    For example, name the properties file for the Access Details for Paths report as Access Details for Paths_header.properties.

    The content of the header.properties file is as follows:

    #
    # Custom Header information
    # version 1.0
    #
    DFS\ Path=DFS
    Path\ Name=PATH
    BU\ Name=BUName
    BU\ Owner=BUOwner 

    In the example, the value at the left-hand side of the equal sign is the default name of the column for in a report. Insert the (\) character before a single space, to represent a space in the default column name. The value at the right-hand side is the modified title for the column.

  2. Save the properties file on the Data Insight Management Server at C:\DataInsight\data\console\reports\customHeaders.