Manage reports

Asset reporting provides administrators with visibility into activity of the Adobe Experience Manager Assets Essentials environment. This data provides useful information about how users interact with content and the product.

Access reports

All users who are assigned to the Assets Essentials Administrators product profile can access the Insights dashboard or create user-defined reports in Assets Essentials.

View Insights

Assets Essentials enables you to view real-time data for your Assets Essentials environment with the Insights dashboard. You can view real-time event metrics during the last 30 days or for the last 12 months.

Toolbar options when you select an asset

Click Insights available in the left navigation pane to view the following automatically generated charts:

  • Downloads: The number of assets downloaded from the Assets Essentials environment in the last 30 days or 12 months represented using a line chart.

  • Uploads: The number assets uploaded to the Assets Essentials environment in the last 30 days or 12 months represented using a line chart.

Create a Download report

To create a Download report:

  1. Navigate to Settings > Reports and click Create Report.

  2. In the Configuration tab, specify the report type as Download.

  3. Specify a title and an optional description for the report.

  4. Select the folder path, which comprises the assets to execute the report on, using the Select Folder Path field.

  5. Select the date interval for the report.

    NOTE

    Assets Essentials converts all local time zones to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

  6. In the Columns tab, select the column names that you need to display in the report.

  7. Click Create.

    Download Report

The following table explains the use of all columns that you can add to the report:

Column name Description
Title The title of the asset.
Path The folder path where the asset is available in Assets Essentials.
MIME Type The MIME type for the asset.
Size The size of the asset in bytes.
Downloaded By The email ID of the user who downloaded the asset.
Download Date The date when the asset download action is performed.
Author The author for the asset.
Creation Date The date when the asset is uploaded to Assets Essentials.
Modified Date The date when the asset is last modified.
Expired The expiration status of the asset.
Downloaded By User Name The name of the user who downloaded the asset.

Create an Upload report

To create an Upload report:

  1. Navigate to Settings > Reports and click Create Report.

  2. In the Configuration tab, specify the report type as Upload.

  3. Specify a title and an optional description for the report.

  4. Select the folder path, which comprises the assets to execute the report on, using the Select Folder Path field.

  5. Select the date interval for the report.

  6. In the Columns tab, select the column names that you need to display in the report.

  7. Click Create.

    Upload Report

The following table explains the use of all columns that you can add to the report:

Column name Description
Title The title of the asset.
Path The folder path where the asset is available in Assets Essentials.
MIME Type The MIME type for the asset.
Size The size of the asset.
Author The author for the asset.
Creation Date The date when the asset is uploaded to Assets Essentials.
Modified Date The date when the asset is last modified.
Expired The expiration status of the asset.

View existing reports

After creating the report, you can view the list of existing reports and select to download them in a CSV format or delete them.

To view the list of reports, navigate to Settings > Reports.

For each report, you can view report title, the type of the report, description specified while creating the report, status of the report, email ID of the author who created the report, and report creation date.

Completed status of the report represents that the report is ready for download.

List of reports

Download a CSV report

To download a report in CSV format:

  1. Navigate to Settings > Reports.

  2. Select a report and click Download CSV.

The selected report downloads in CSV format. The columns that display in the CSV report depends on the columns that you select while creating the report.

Delete a report

To delete a report:

  1. Navigate to Settings > Reports.

  2. Select a report and click Delete.

  3. Click Delete again to confirm.

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