Support for user-editable properties
RST reports can be configured to allow users to edit properties from the portal.
To add support for user-editable properties. This functionality
was added for the following specific use-cases:
- To enable customers to change resource names (typically numeric addresses) to something more descriptive through the use of a new customerFacingName property.
- To enable account managers to set a property to either true or
false, so that they can manage the groupings of their customers for
the display of resources in RST reports. Only resources marked as
true are viewable.Important: While any property can be selected to be user-editable from the portal, it is imperative that you determine that the property is not overwritten by Discovery formulas or resmgr command updates. Otherwise, any changes made to the property from the portal are not persistent.
To configure support for these use cases, and also to configure
a reporter so that any property can be edited from the portal, see:
- Adding support for editing resource names
- Adding support to control grouping
- Adding support to edit any propertyNote: For more information about how to edit a report from the portal, see Working with User-Editable RST Reports.