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• IntroductionWhat is a Postprocessing

• How to use Postprocessing

• Adding custom columns

• Postprocessing in default reports

• Linking entities using postprocessing

• Remove records using postprocessing

Hello. In this video, you will learn about ACDI Reporting Postprocessing, what it is, and how you can use it. Let's try an example of a simple report based on data received from eDirectory snapshots.

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But what if you need to create a report that you will run, for example, on a weekly or monthly basis and which will show users whose login will expire in a preset time period, in the next week or next month? For this, postprocessing is at your disposal. Let's see how it works.

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In Report Editor there is a tab called “Postprocessing” where you can add all your JavaScript functions which will be implemented to filter values or to values in the resulting report.

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Here are the results. Now the date string is much more readable and nice-looking compared to what was previously.

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Okay, but how can you add a custom attribute, a custom field, or a custom column that will show you if you need or don’t need to do some actions? Again, let’s use the postprocessing!

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For the expired logins, you need to decide either to extend or archive them. Maybe you need to do some other actions. This is one of the clear and simple ways you can use postprocessing.

The other ones are for attributes that contain numeric values like the XML state of drivers. Let's check driver state changes in the dashboard.

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It is transformed into a readable format, and we can check what the postprocessing function looks like.

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One of the options where postprocessing can be used is a linkage between two different entities such as “nrf” requests.

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You see that the list of approvers is stored inside of an XML string, and you need to parse DN to link it with a user from the same snapshot. In addition, it can be stored in the CSV format or inside a JSON string.

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You can find how it works in the NetIQ Role Request Report.

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Let's open the Report graph, and here it is to see what one main object “request” is linked to different entities.

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If some entities contain attributes with strict DNs, there are also some attributes that contain DNs inside XMLs or JSONs. OK, the postprocessing was used from one side to parse DN from XML

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And it also can be used to create regular expressions to be able to parse from different DN formats, from formats with DN, and from slash format. We go into detail about how to do it in the video about entities in reports.

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So, postprocessing is a powerful tool in ACDI that allows you to create flexible reports. Thank you for your attention and take care.

If according to report logic, some records should be removed from a final table and export documents' special function context.deleteRecord() may be used. Once it is called the record where the postprocessing function is called from will be removed from a final report.

Please, create a postprocessing function, assign it to any attribute, enable postprocessing, and turn on “Pass full record object to the postprocess function”

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function example:

function(value, record, context){    
    if (record.sn && record.sn[0]==="Santos"){
        context.deleteRecord();
    }
    return value;
}

The current function will remove all objects that have “sn” equal to “Santos”

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