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Task1What is a Reporting Collection?
Task2Adding a Reporting Collection
Task3Adding objects to a Reporting Collection

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<h2>What<a id="What is a Reporting Collection?</h2>

<p>Reporting collections allow you to collate separate groups of users from across your entire organisation. You are no longer constrained to your actual organisational structure. For example, you could create a  <i>Virtual group</i> for reporting purposes only. This will enable you to report on all of your Sales teams from across the country, and compare like-for-like, as a single Virtual group. In this way the Sales manager would get access to all his Sales teams stats without having to trawl through the call stats for other teams on other sites.</p>

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<h2>Adding a Reporting Collection group</h2>

<p>To add a Reporting Collection to the Directory, simply select <span class="button">Reporting Collection</span> from the <span class="reference">Organisation unit</span> list as shown below and give it a name that represents its function e.g. "UK Northern Sales" group as shown below. Then click <span class="button">Add</span> to put in to your Directory.</p>

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<p>There are no limits to the amount of Reporting Collections you can add so you can set up your TIM Enterprise Directory to faithfully mimic your actual organisational directory. You simply select the Reporting Collection, give it a name and add it.</p>

<h2>Adding objects to a Reporting Collection group</h2>

<p>To add sites, groups or users to a Reporting Collection group, simply right-click on the directory object you want to select for reporting purposes and select <span class="button">Copy</span> to copy to the clipboard, as shown below. The copied object show automatically on the right-hand side of the window. To select more directory objects, simply drill up and down through your Directory and follow the same procedure.</p>

<img class="screenshot" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_enterprise/copy_groups.png" alt="Copy directory objects" />

<p>To move all of the objects on the clipboard into the Reporting Collection group, simply open your Reporting Collection group which is "UK Northern Sales" in our example, tick alongside the objects on the right-hand side of the window that require moving and then press <span class="button">Paste</span>, as shown below:</p> 

<img class="screenshot" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_enterprise/paste_groups.png" alt="Paste directory objects" />
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NOTE: As these groups are designed for reporting purposes only, it also means that calls are not duplicated.

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<p>Your Reporting Collection will appear in the Directory as follows:</p>

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What is a Reporting Collection

The 

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object is a special type of group that acts as a virtual container, collating disparate users from across the entire organisation. This allow you to group any number of directory units together, for reporting purposes, with no constrains on the directory structure. For example, you can compare statistics for all Sales teams from across the country, by running a single report on the virtual group.

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When adding objects to a Reporting Collection, only a copy of the actual entity is being moved into the virtual group. To represent this, the objects in a Reporting Collection group will always show as greyed out.

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Adding a Reporting Collection

To add a Reporting Collection to the system, drill-down to the Directory level where you want to add the group and click on the New object tab, as shown below:

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In the new window that opens, select the Reporting Collection object from the Organisation unit list, enter a relevant name and click on the Add button, as shown below:

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There is no limit to the amount of Reporting Collections you can add to the Directory.

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Adding objects to a Reporting Collection

Follow the steps below to add an object to a Reporting Collection, e.g. sites, groups, users:

  1. Locate in the Directory the object you want to add to the Reporting Collection, click on it and select
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  2. The object will be copied on the
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  3. To move the objects, open your Reporting Collection group, tick the box alongside the objects you want to move and click on the Paste button at the top-left corner of the 
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  4. A copy of selected objects will now be added to the Reporting Collection group.
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These groups are designed for reporting purposes only, therefore the calls will not be duplicated.