The preference settings for test reports control such preferences
as the typeface, color, and graph style of reports, and whether a Compare
report is automatically launched when a staged run completes. You can also
display a warning when changing Percentile report options will cause data
to be lost.
To access the preference settings, click .
You can set the following preferences
for test reports:
- Title color
- Click the color button to set the color of the report titles.
- Title font
- Click Change to set the typeface and the
size for the report titles.
- Use thin bars on bar chart
- Select to display graph bars that do not touch; clear to display
graph bars that touch.
- Use 3D bars on bar chart and pie chart
- Select to display three-dimensional bars.
- Use symbols on line chart
- If your report is long with many data points, you typically clear
this box. When there are many data points, the symbols obscure the
trends and make the data hard to interpret.
- Use alternating background on tables
- Select to give every other table row a gray background. The alternating
background helps make the tables easy to read.
- Data gradient
- The default of None displays reports in
neutral colors, which generally will suit your needs. You can also
select a brown, gray, or red-green-blue color scheme. Select 256
color supported only if you have problems with the other
data gradients.
- Marker gradient
- When you are modeling a workload over time, select a contrasting
color palette for markers to distinguish them from the data gradient
that you have selected. Markers separate the time ranges displayed
on line charts.
- Remain focused on default time range
- Select to show all data from time 0 to the end of run in a staged
run report.
- Focus report on active time range
- Select to show all data aggregated in real-time relative to the
start of a user-load plateau and not relative to the beginning of
the run in staged run report (default).
- Add active time range to a comparison report for all time ranges
- Select to add a user-load plateau to a real-time comparison report
of all smart-load time ranges in a staged run report.
- Open a new report on the active time range
- Select to open a new staged run report when a user-load plateau
becomes active.
- Launch compare report when staged run completes
- When you are running a schedule that contains multiple stages,
time ranges are automatically created for each stage. Click to display
a Compare report, which compares the time ranges of each stage, automatically
after the run completes.
- Warn of lost changes when a dynamic tab is modified
- The most common example of losing changes occurs in the Percentile
report. If you generate a report on a run, and then regenerate it
with different percentiles, the data from the original percentiles
will be overwritten. Select this option to display a warning when
you modify a report.