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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 19, 2020

"Totals" option for adding up how Volumes and Utilization per Application

When certain reports are selected, the ability to SUM certain fields that are selected into a "Total Summary" at the top of a report would very helpful. In the reports lets say we select Volume Report and then select the columns we want to see. Before we go to Scheduling, lets include another selection section to opt for a Summary of selected Columns of data. Perhaps we want to have a "count" of how many records we have (Example it would show the # of volumes) and a SUM of Capacity and Used Capacity metrics. This data at a dashboard level could be very easy to make into a Capacity/Trend view as well.

A bonus would be to include "current" or a particular date (1st of month example) and then be able to select the MIN|MAX|AVG out of a date range

Another Bonus would be to Summarize on Filtered Column data. Example would be show the SUM of volser's that start with JJ????

The Summary report could be included as a second CSV or another page in a PDF.

Idea priority Medium