Indicating Data Age on a Report

Data in your reports may be drawn from different discoveries (for more information, see Editing Reports). This means that the freshness of your data may vary within a report. If it is important to understand when the data was collected, you can add this information to each top level object collected. The following table outlines where you can add this time stamp:

report type	last collected time available for...
Active Directory	Domain
Computer	Computer
Microsoft SQL Server	SQL Server
NTFS	Computer on which the folder, share, or file is located
Registry	Computer on which the registry is located

If you want to know the last time a value changed, you can add the Timestamp field.

To add the last collected time to a report

1.	Ensure you are working in the My Reports container.

2.	Select the report, and click Edit report.

3.	Click Fields.

4.	If necessary, expand the appropriate container.

5.	Add Last Collected Time.

Remember that you must add the field to the Layout if you want it to appear in your report. For more information, see Changing the Layout and Report Designer Tips and Tricks.