The Effective Licenses Report
Overview
The Effective Licenses Report provides information about actual library licensing and original licenses. This report enables you to track every time a user from the organization manually assigned a license to a library in the inventory. After a license is selected by a user, it is considered that library's "effective license" from then on.
Accessing the Report
From the main menu, select Reports > Effective Licenses. The Effective Licenses Report page is displayed.
Select the scope for which the report should be created, as follows:
Open the dropdown menu next to the report name and select the product on which you want to base the report
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Leave as the default Organizational value context.Click Apply and wait for the data to load into the report preview table.
To further filter the report, do as follows:
Expand the Filter area, select an option from the By dropdown menu, and enter the value by which to filter.
The options are: Library (default), Effective License, User, Reference, Date, and Original Licenses.Click Filter.
The Effective Licenses Report is displayed.
Understanding the Report Data
The Effective Licenses Report provides the following columns of information in a table:
Library: Name of the library
Effective license: Effective license assigned to the library
User: User that selected the license
Reference: Library reference page
Date: Date the license was selected
Original Licenses: The original licenses of the library
Occurrences: Library occurrences in the organization or product
Exporting the Report
To export the report, click the Export dropdown menu at the top right corner of the report, and select the required export format:
Excel
XML
The exported report will reflect the selected context (organization or product) and specified filters.
For examples of exported report types, see The Reports Menu | Exporting-Reports .