4. Using Templates

About Templates

LSF Analyzer includes templates to help you reproduce reports. A template stores all the characteristics of an analysis report (title, Y-axis, X-axis, report range and chart type) except for the data itself.

You can save any report as a template and use it as the basis for generating a similar analysis of different job data.

You can use any template to create a new report or modify an existing one.

Saving a Template

To save the current report as a template, take the following steps:

1. Choose File | Save as Template.
2. In the File Selection dialog, type or select the template file name, and click OK or Save.

Using a Template to Create a Report

To create a report from a template, take the following steps:

1. Choose File | New Report from Template.
2. In the Load Template dialog, type or select the template file name, and click OK or Open.

   

3. In the New Report dialog, make any changes you want, then click OK.

Using a Template to Modify a Report

Using a template to modify a report is the same as deleting the report and creating a new report from a template.

To modify the current report using a template, take the following steps:

1. Click the Modify button on the toolbar, or choose Report | Modify.
2. In the Modify Report dialog, click Load Template.
3. In the File Selection dialog, type or select the template file name, and click OK or Open.
4. In the Modify Report dialog, make any changes you want, then click OK.

Default Templates

A wide variety of default templates can be installed with LSF Analyzer and used to create reports quickly. They are found in the %LSF_MISC%\xanalyzer directory on Windows NT, and under the $LSF_MISC/Xanalyzer directory on UNIX.

The templates are organized as shown:

Accounting
Project
Queue
User

Performance
General
Host
Queue

Workload
General
Job_Profile
Job_Type