Save and Customize Reports for All Domains
In a multi-domain environment, it can be helpful to run reports with similar settings across different domains. In AD Reports, you can create and save custom reports for the current domain or all domains.
Save a Report for All Domains
Right-click on any report and select Save Report as New Custom from the pop-up menu. Alternatively, you can select any report from the report tree and click on Save Report as New Custom from the toolbar.
In the new dialog window, enter a new report title and select Save report for All domains. You will see an information message indicating that Search Root of other domains will be set to Domain Name. This is necessary because each domain has a unique name and structure, so we cannot use the Search Root of one domain for another domain. You can customize the Search Root for each individual domain after saving the report.
View the Saved Report
After clicking the Save button, the new custom report will be saved for the current domain and separately for all domains. AD Reports will switch to the Custom reports tab for the current domain and load the newly created custom report.
If you switch to another domain, you will find the same custom report saved for each domain.
The little blue globe icon
marks a report saved for All Domains. Open Customize Report and its save button tells you whether this domain uses the shared All Domains settings (Save for All Domains) or has its own (Save for This Domain).
Customize for a Specific Domain
For example, let's switch to another domain, maxpowersoft.local1, and select our newly saved report All User Accounts. Select Customize Report from the toolbar or pop-up menu. Let's change some report settings, such as the Search Root, LDAP Filter, and some attributes:
To keep the change to this domain, click the arrow on Save for All Domains and choose Save for Current Domain Only.
The report is saved for maxpowersoft.local1 only and reloaded. The All Domains settings are unchanged, so every other domain keeps its settings — including maxpowersoft.local0, where the report was first saved. Had you clicked Save for All Domains instead, the shared settings would change for every domain that uses them. If a scheduled job for this domain runs the report with its All Domains settings, AD Reports asks first, because such a job keeps the settings it was created with.
Apply Settings to All Domains
When a domain has its own settings for a report, Customize Report's save button reads Save for This Domain. To make those settings the All Domains settings too, click its arrow and choose Save for Current Domain and All Domains.
(All Domains report) on a domain that uses its shared settings, the button reads Save for All Domains and the arrow offers Save for Current Domain Only instead.
If we load this report in another domain, we can see the new settings have been applied to the All Domain report template.
If we open Report Settings, we can see that this is an All Domain report by the blue globe icon
.
Because this domain uses the shared settings, the button reads Save for All Domains.
If you click Close, the window closes and the report is not changed. If you click Save for All Domains, the shared settings are saved for every domain that uses them, including the current one.