This document discusses using reports in Spiceworks SQueaL. It covers the different types of reports, how to view reports, who can use reports, and how to share reports. It also discusses using SQL to create custom reports and view database tables and rows. Finally, it addresses questions about inserting reports in the user portal and creating dashboards to view multiple reports.

1. Making Spiceworks SQueaL with
reports!
Grey Howe
Western States SpiceTrainer· gh@spiceu.com

2. Lots to cover:
• Reports:
– What are the kinds of reports?
– Where are reports viewable?
– Who can use reports?
– How can reports be viewed by non-SW users (reporting users and
automatically emailed)?
– Community Shared reports.
• SQL:
– Viewing the database to get our own SQL table and row names.
– Create our own SQL report.
• Show off our work to our COWorkers
• Create a new dashboard just to view a bunch of reports
and/or get status on help desk at-a-glance.
• Insert an automatically generated report in to the User Portal.
• Q&A

3. Reports
• Show aggregate data from multiple sources
• At a glance statistics
– Help Desk
– Purchasing
– Inventory
– Dashboard
– Vendors
– Software

4. Reports
• Inventory • Software
Built-in reports and some Licensing
embedded to the application How many installed
Track unwanted software

5. Reports
• Purchasing • Vendors
Depreciation Meeting SLAs?
Total Expenditures Spend more elsewhere?
Status
PO Number

6. Reports
• Inventory • Help Desk
Built-in reports and some Basic experience out of the box
embedded to the application

7. Using Reports
• Three kinds of Spiceworks users
– Admin
– Helpdesk
– Reporting

8. Viewing Reports
• Reporting User • Scripted
Limited access Emailed
Somewhat confusing Saved for dissemination
‘Public’ reports only

9. Community Reports & SQL
• Finding reports
– Appropriating them for your environment
– They shared it, let’s modify it
– Be kind to the authors! Spice their reports up!

10. Q&A