2.6 Setting the ZENworks Reporting Server InfoView Preferences

You can set the preferences to personalize the ZENworks Reporting Server InfoView. You can set preferences for general viewing and for the formats for the Web Intelligence documents in the ZENworks Reporting Server InfoView. For more information about the Web Intelligence preferences, see the BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 InfoView User’s Guide.

NOTE:The Change Password preference is not supported in ZENworks Configuration Management.

Some of the preferences are set by default during ZENworks Reporting Server installation. However, you can change these preference settings to suit your requirements. You should set your preferences before you begin to work with objects in the ZENworks Reporting Server InfoView.

The following table lists the preferences that are selected by default on the Preferences page in the ZENworks Reporting Server InfoView during the ZENworks Reporting Server installation:

Table 2-2 Preferences and their default settings

Preference

Options

Default Settings/Values

General

InfoView Start Page

Novell ZENworks Reports folder

 

Document Navigation View

Folder

 

Set the number of objects (max.) per page

10

 

Document List Display

  • Description

  • Owner

  • Date

  • Instance count

 

Document Viewing

In the InfoView portal

 

Product Locale

The locale that you have used to launch the ZENworks Control Center

 

Current Time Zone

Local to Web Server

 

Preferred Viewing Locale

Use browser locale

Web Intelligence

Select a default view format

Interactive

 

When viewing a document

Use my preferred viewing locale to format the data

 

Select a default creation/editing tool

Interactive

NOTE:The Desktop (Web Intelligence Rich Client required) option is not supported.

 

Select a default Universe

ZENworks

 

Drill Options

By default, no option is selected.

 

Start drill session

On existing report

 

Select a priority for saving to MS Excel

Prioritize easy data processing in Excel

ZENworks Reporting Server InfoView has been customized according to Novell specifications. ZENworks Configuration Management overrides a few of these custom settings. When you set the preferences in the ZENworks Reporting Server InfoView, it persists only for the currently logged in session. However, when you open a new session of the ZENworks Reporting Server InfoView, ZENworks Configuration Management overrides a few of these custom settings. The default values that were set to the preferences during the installation of ZENworks Reporting Server are applied to the preferences.

ZENworks Configuration Management overrides the settings for the following preferences: