Manipulating the Hierarchy

After a report is generated, you can manipulate the chart items in the Hierarchy view to view a subset of the data included in the report. When the hierarchy is manipulated, the report is automatically refreshed to reflect the changes. You can perform the following actions:

Viewing only the parent chart items—You can contract the parent nodes so that the report displays only the parent chart items without identifying the specific children, see Figure 5-5.

Note When a parent node is contracted, the parent node value is an aggregation of all the values of its children nodes.

Figure 5-5 Report Displaying Only Parent Chart Items

Expanding the parent chart items—The parent nodes can be expanded to drill down and identify all the specific chart items included in the parent, see Figure 5-6.

Note In service tree-based mode, if a parent chart item has a child that is not assigned a global usage counter, when the parent is expanded, both the parent and the child chart items appear on the chart.

Figure 5-6 Report Displaying Expand Parent Chart Items

Unchecking chart items—You can uncheck chart items in the hierarchy to remove them from the report, see Figure 5-7.

Figure 5-7 Removing Chart Items By Unchecking

Checking chart items—You can check chart items in the hierarchy to add them to the report.

Note When checking or unchecking a parent node, all the children mirror the parent. However, you can check or uncheck individual chart items to view in the report.