Re: [Summary-Talk] Sub Report Config Question

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/17/04 7:18 AM John May (jmaymailing@pointinspace.com) wrote:

>But there's no way to tell a sub-report to use a particular folder of 
>logs AND to only include certain domains or requests from said 
>folder?

Mostly true. You can use the folder name and the request to determine 
which log entries to include, but you can't use the folder name and the 
server name taken from the log entry to select log entries at the same 
time in one sub-report. However, in many situations you can use the 
folder name in one sub-report and the server name taken from the log 
entry in another sub-report at the same time.

>And there's no way to use the folder name as the domain name 
>for only one sub-report (which is necessary for the method you 
>mention, right)?

There are two different ways that you can do this, if you have your log 
formats setup correctly and you are working with two different 
sub-reports. If you turn off "Always use folder name as domain name" then 
logs which have server/domain names in the log entry will use that, but 
logs which don't contain server/domain names in each log entry will use 
the folder name. If you turn on "Always use folder name as domain name" 
then logs which are in sub-folders will use the sub-folder name but logs 
which are placed directly into Summary's Logs folder will use the 
server/domain name from the log entry.

I am not sure what you are trying to do. If you say what your goal is I 
can probably come up with a way to get Summary to do it. Mixing different 
approaches for configuring sub-reports in a single copy of Summary can 
get fairly complex, but I have never run into a situation that Summary 
couldn't handle at all. Sometimes it takes a little while to figure out 
what the best way to approach things is.

Jason

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