Why do the canned report charts do not clearly identify the object being charted? I've been asked to provide a report on SQL Databases space but the charts, as good as they are, don't have the name of the database they are reporting on. For that, I have to, on EVERY chart, expand the *plus* symbol for instances to see the name of the database being charted, which takes a good ten seconds to expand and show up. This is not just for this report. As far as I can see, every report behaves like this, they don't identify the object being charted in a easy way. This is counterproductive. I was thinking I could just populate the parameters that the canned report needed, schedule it and email it to the people that wanted the info, but because of this I can't. As it stands, this makes most of them useless for most purposes. Is there anything I'm missing here that would allow the name of the object to show up above the chart or something automatically without user intervention?

Hi Reporting can be frustrating and often even the basics are missing - labels on the x and y axis (the units of measurement are frequently not listed), not clearly showing the objects reported against, date formats on some reports don't work (the x axis is sometimes specified as an integer rather than a date so that reports that span months become unusable). Feel free to add your comments to http://connect.microsoft.com You might find that once you've run your report, you can drill down so that the objects are visible and then schedule the drilled down report. Similar to the way you can run a performance report against a group which only shows one chart (with performance aggregated). But then you can drill down to show a report per object and then schedule that report. Cheers GrahamView OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/