CommonSpot contributors can customize the number and type of items that display in their personal My CommonSpot dashboards, as well as set sort and display options for other frequently used dashboard options such as My Content and search results. Use Report Settings to establish defaults for these customizable displays, both to ensure that report results are meaningful and to prevent the system slowdowns that may occur when report criteria require a large number of lookups or produce a large number of results.
For example, displaying every page in a report run against a site with tens of thousands of pages is both unnecessarily resource-intensive and unproductive for individuals trying to locate specific pages or documents.
For sites with a large number of pages, uploaded documents, images, or contributors, this option provides logic to limit the number of items reported.
Use the Site Properties/Settings - Report Settings option to define the default maximums for specific contributor or administrator reports.
View or edit the following sections:
Controls the number of records returned for each user and group content and approval section, as well as saved searches, shortcuts and notification within My CommonSpot. Enter a numeric value for each field. See Workspace Customization and My CommonSpot for details on how these options display to contributors.
Any attempt to customize reports beyond the maximum standard set here returns a message like the following:
Controls the number of records returned for reports generated from My Content menu selections and sets default selections for the standard search dropdowns.
Filtering default options for My Content, Reports and Tools, Find, and Find images are similar to options displayed to contributors. Set filtering and ordering defaults, including which subsite levels to include and date restriction behavior.
Select the sort order contributors most frequently use.
To view how these options display to contributors, see descriptions for individual Reports.
Controls the number of records returned for reports generated from the Reports menu and Manage menu options and sets default behavior for standard search dropdowns contained in these reports.
Filtering default options for My Content, Reports and Tools, Find, and Find images are similar to options displayed to contributors. Set filtering and ordering defaults, including which subsite levels to include and date restriction behavior.
Select the sort order contributors most frequently use.
To view how these options display to contributors, see descriptions for individual Reports.
Controls the number of records returned for reports generated from all Tools - Find and Choose operations, and sets default selections for standard search dropdowns contained in these reports.
Filtering default options for Find and Find Images are similar to options displayed to contributors. Set filtering and ordering defaults, including which subsite levels to include and date restriction behavior.
Select the sort order level contributors most frequently use.
Controls the number of records returned for reports generated from all Tools - Find Images and Choose Image operations, and sets default selections for standard search dropdowns contained in these reports.
Filtering default options for Find images are similar to options displayed to contributors. Set filtering and ordering defaults, including which subsite levels to include and date restriction behavior.
Select the sort order level contributors most frequently use.
These options limit the number of records displayed for each of these functions. Set limits or accept the current defaults based on the number of records at your site.
Filtering default options for My Content, Reports and Tools, Find, and Find images are similar to options displayed to contributors. Set filtering and ordering defaults, including which subsite levels to include and date restriction behavior.
Select the sort order contributors most frequently use.
To view how these options display to contributors, see descriptions for individual Reports.
Related Links
You can download PDF versions of the Content Contributor's, Administrator's, and Elements Reference documents from the support section of paperthin.com (requires login).
Sites upgrading from versions earlier than release 6.0 should review the following (from the support section of paperthin.com - requires login):
For technical support: