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How to find your way?

Promodag Reports includes about 80 report templates that you can use to create your own custom reports.

Report templates

To open a template, you can either

Use the Report Templates menu
Use the Report Explorer.

For more information on the interface of Promodag Reports, see Main window.

Before you start using the product, we suggest you open our List of Reports .

Templates are grouped in categories, such as Storage, Mailbox Content or Billing for example. These categories appear as main nodes in the Report Explorer and they cannot be modified. The names of these categories are meant to help you find your way among templates. Each entry comes with a short description.

Graphical reports are distinguished from tabular reports in the Templates menu as well as in the Report Explorer by a specific icon.

example

A template that would let you generate a report showing the size of public folders is likely to be found in the category called Storage. If you open that category, you will find a template called Public Folder Storage Information.
Should you likewise need to produce a report showing the top 10 email senders in your organization, open the category called Mailbox Traffic. If you open that category, you will find a template called Mailbox by Traffic Level.

Canned reports (Favorites)

The software is delivered with a number of ready-to use custom reports, for example: 'What are the 10 largest mailboxes'. These canned reports are available on the Favorites menu and they are grouped in custom categories based on the main use cases of the product: Traffic Analysis and SLA Reporting, Compliance, Capacity Planning and Exchange Migrations, Chargeback.

You can rename these sample reports or delete them at will. You can also rearrange the existing tree or create your own hierarchy in the Favorites menu.