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LouDi
October 27, 2020
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How to get a list of reports that use a custom field

  • October 27, 2020
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I need to search reports and get a list of reports that display a specific field as one of its columns. is this possible? Thanks

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    KatherineLa
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    KatherineLaCommunity Advisor
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    October 27, 2020

    Can you get to that information? Yes, mostly. Is it pretty? Not so much.

    Start with a base report type of 'Report'. Add an additional column with the text mode below. Similar columns can be displayed for Group and Filter if needed as well.

    What you get as a result will be ugly blocks of text, but they're searchable at least. If there's a way to make it easier to read or filter for only the field names, I've never tried figuring it out but maybe someone else will chime in to help that's better at text mode than I am.

    displayname=

    linkedname=direct

    namekey=viewID

    querysort=viewID

    textmode=true

    valuefield=view:definition

    valueformat=HTML

      Doug_Den_Hoed_AtAppStore
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      Doug_Den_Hoed_AtAppStoreCommunity Advisor
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      October 28, 2020

      Hi Lou,

      Katherine's spot on (gory details and all), but if would like a pretty option, I invite you to consider our Report all Report Details solution which assembles the relevant information into an Excel file that you can then easily filter to conduct impact analysis.

      Regards,

      Doug

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