HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Edition Software - Manual (Page 26)

Setting Preferences 24
Selecting your Drill options
Before you begin a drill session, you must specify how your Web Intelligence documents
change when you perform a drill.
To set your drill options
1. In the “Select a view format” area, ensure that either HTML or Interactive is selected.
2. In the “For each new drill session” area, select the option that you want to apply to
your drill sessions:
• If you want to retain a copy of the original document so that you can compare the
drilled results to the data in the original document, then choose Start drill on a
duplicate report.
InfoView creates a duplicate of the original report. When you end drill mode, both
the original report and the drilled report remain in the document for you to view.
• If you want to drill on the report so that the report is modified by your drill actions,
then choose Start drill on the existing report.
When you end drill mode, the report displays the drilled values.
3. In the “General drill options” area, select the general options that you want to apply to
your drill sessions:
• If you want Web Intelligence to prompt you whenever a drill action requires a new
query to add more data to the document, then select Prompt if drill requires
additional data.
For example, when you drill the results that are displayed on a Web Intelligence
document, you may want to drill to higher or lower-level information that is not
included in the scope of analysis for the document. In this situation, Web
Intelligence needs to run a new query to retrieve additional data from the data
source. You can choose to be prompted with a message whenever a new query is
needed.
The prompt message asks you to decide whether or not you want to run the
additional query. In addition, the prompt may allow you to apply filters to the extra
dimensions that you include in the new query. As a result, you can restrict the size
of the query to just the data that is necessary for your analysis. Note, however, that
you need permission from your administrator to drill out of the scope of analysis
during a drill session.
• If you want Web Intelligence to synchronize drilling on all report blocks, then select
Synchronize drill on report blocks.
Each table, chart, or free-standing cell in a report represents a specific block of
data. There are two ways to drill on a report with multiple report blocks:
• Synchronize drill on report blocks.
• Drill on only the selected block.
The following examples show how each option affects a report as you drill down on
a table to analyze detailed results per service line.