Changing the default appearance of reports

You can change the report default settings for typeface, color, and graph style of reports, and whether a Compare report automatically opens when a staged run ends. You can also display a warning when changing Page Percentile report options will cause data to be lost.

Procedure

  1. Click Window > Preferences > Test > Performance Test Reports.
  2. In the Test Reports window, select the options to change:
    Title color
    Click the color button to set the color of the report titles.
    Title font
    Click Change to set the typeface and the size for the report titles.
    Use thin bars on bar chart
    Select to display graph bars that do not touch; clear to display graph bars that touch.
    Use 3D bars on bar chart and pie chart
    Select to display three-dimensional bars.
    Use symbols on line chart
    If your report is long with many data points, you typically clear this box. When there are many data points, the symbols obscure the trends and make the data hard to interpret.
    Time range markers highlight full areas
    Select to apply background highlights to reports.
    Use alternating background on tables
    Select to give every other table row a gray background. The alternating background helps make the tables easy to read.
    Data gradient
    The default of None displays reports in neutral colors, which generally will suit your needs. You can also select a brown, gray, or red-green-blue color scheme. Select 256 color supported only if you have problems with the other data gradients.
    Marker gradient
    When you are modeling a workload over time, select a contrasting color palette for markers to distinguish them from the data gradient that you have selected. Markers separate the time ranges displayed on line charts.
    Remain focused on default time range
    Select to show all data from time 0 to the end of run in a staged run report.
    Focus report on active time range
    Select to show all data aggregated in real-time relative to the start of a user-load plateau and not relative to the beginning of the run in staged run report (default).
    Add active time range to a comparison report for all time ranges
    Select to add a user-load plateau to a real-time comparison report of all smart-load time ranges in a staged run report.
    Open a new report on the active time range
    Select to open a new staged run report when a user-load plateau becomes active.
    Launch compare report when staged run completes
    When you are running a schedule that contains multiple stages, time ranges are automatically created for each stage. Click to display a Compare report, which compares the time ranges of each stage, automatically after the run completes.
    Warn of lost changes when a dynamic tab is modified
    The most common example of losing changes occurs in the Page Percentile report. If you generate a report on a run, and then regenerate it with different percentiles, the data from the original percentiles will be overwritten. Select this option to display a warning when you modify a report.

What to do next

To return to the default appearance of reports, click Window > Preferences > Test > Performance Test Reports, and then click Restore Defaults.


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