Adding and removing tags

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9.2.14 Available from 9.2.14.

License Metric Tool allows you to tag certain elements on the reports. You can tag software components, and whole report rows and thus mark them to meet your individual business needs.

Before you begin

An icon representing a user To perform this task on the Software Components report, you must have the View Software Catalog and Signatures and Manage Catalogs permissions.

An icon representing a userTo perform this task on the Software Classification panel, you must have the View Endpoints and Manage Software Classification permissions.

About this task

Tagging software components, and whole report rows might be used to differentiate the specific kind of software components, or the discovered software. It can help you group items according to their importance, specificity, type or use. You can tag the following report elements:
  • Software components on the Software Components report.
  • Individually discovered instances of software on the Software Classification panel.

Procedure

  1. In the top navigation bar, click Reports and choose the relevant report.
  2. Select one or more rows for which you want to add tags.
    Note: On the Software Components report, you can select up to a 100 rows at a time.
  3. Hover over Edit, and click Add Tags.
  4. List tags that you want to add for the selected components. You can select an existing tag or add a new one.
  5. Click Add Tags.

Results

The tags are visible on a relevant report.

To remove tags, hover over Edit, and click Remove Tags. Select the tags and confirm by clicking Remove Tags.