Adding Items to Custom System Reports

After creating a report as described in Creating a Report, a screen like the one shown in Figure 1 displays.

Figure 1. Adding Report Items to a System Report

Individual system reports are customized by specifying the items that you want the report to include. You can do this by using the same method that was used to create application reports. Select Add Report Itemfrom the screen shown in the previous figure to display a list of available report items, select a report item that you want to add, and click Add to add it to your report. You must repeat this process for each report item that you want to add to your report. The following table shows the report items that can be added to system reports:

Table 1. System Report Items
Report Item	Definition
High-priority errors	List errors that have occurred that are "high" priority. (The internal name of this report item is report-item-high-priority-errors.)
Other errors	List errors that have occurred that are not "high" priority. (The internal name of this report item is report-item-other-errors.)
System summary	Summary of other reported information. (The internal name of this report item is report-item-system-summary.)

The internal names listed as part of the description in the preceding table can be very helpful when identifying the data collection items that you must activate in order to populate this report. See Activating Report Data Collection in Watson Explorer Engine for more information about activating data collection items.

Note: As you add each report item, you will note that an up-arrow, down-arrow, or both are displayed to the left of the edit button for that report item. Clicking these symbols enable you to move the associated report item up or down within the list of the report items for this report. This controls both its position on the report creation screen, and also in any output format in which you export the report.

After adding all of the report items that you want to see in your report, you must also configure Watson™ Explorer Engine to begin collecting the data that is required by each of those report items.

To proceed to the section about activating the data collection required by the report items that you have selected, click Activating Report Data Collection in Watson Explorer Engine.