Reports

Telerik Report Designer

OctoSAM Inventory uses Telerik Reporting. The standalone report designer can be used to change existing reports or create new custom reports. The designer can be downloaded from the Octosoft forum or obtained free of charge from Telerik at www.telerik.com. The Telerik website also contains detailed documentation and instructional videos about Telerik Reporting.

Report data source configuration

When OctoSAM Inventory opens a report definition file (*.trdx file), it inspects the defined objects and changes all DataSource configurations to point to the current database. You can therefore not design any reports that connect to other databases than OctoSAM Inventory.

OctoSAM Inventory provided report parameters

The following report parameters are filled in by OctoSAM Inventory when the user starts a report. You do not have to define them, but if you do, OctoSAM Inventory will automatically fill them in and set them to invisible (sometimes dependent on Options, see Description), so that the user cannot change them at runtime.

The OctopusGuid report parameter

To be used from the Web interface, each Report must define a Report Parameter named OctopusGuid and assign a unique UUID to it. This UUID will be used for Role Based Access Control (RBAC) and for deep linking.