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Triage with reports
Reports are automatically generated after a job has run. They provide a way of managing issues so that you can helps you manage issues that are important to your organization and do so in a way that is supported both by the Enterprise Console's workflow and the workflows of other processes within your organization.
Organizing report and dashboard results for analysis
A tremendous amount of powerful data is delivered through the reports. But not every organization wants to review their data in exactly the same way as everybody else. Flexible viewing mechanisms help you organize how you review your issues in whatever way makes the most sense to you.
Managing issues in a report
All issues are classified as open by default. You can see an issue classification by grouping by Issue Status.
Changing issue severity levels in a report
You can modify issue severity on an issue by issue basis within reports so you can change the predefined severity levels to comply with your organization's standards.

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Reference
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- Configuring Wizard topics
  Learn about configuring wizard topics.
- Folder Explorer topics
  Learn about folder explorer topics.
- Triage with reports
  Reports are automatically generated after a job has run. They provide a way of managing issues so that you can helps you manage issues that are important to your organization and do so in a way that is supported both by the Enterprise Console's workflow and the workflows of other processes within your organization.
  - Summarizing issues in report packs
    A report pack is a bundle of reports that summarizes the issues discovered within its reports and provides a window into those reports. The reports themselves contain the details of the issues found on your website or application.
  - Organizing report and dashboard results for analysis
    A tremendous amount of powerful data is delivered through the reports. But not every organization wants to review their data in exactly the same way as everybody else. Flexible viewing mechanisms help you organize how you review your issues in whatever way makes the most sense to you.
    - Grouping report data
      Grouping report results by different data sets (such as page, or context or IP address) helps make the report data more relevant to your analysis needs.
    - Searching report data
      You can search for specific issues or information within each report's results. For example, you might want to find all the issues within a certain directory of the Page URL. Or you might want to track a particular issue throughout your remediation process; enter the Issue ID in the Search tab to locate it within the relevant report.
    - Identifying pages with identical URLs in reports
      When your report contains a list of identical URLs, it is likely because your site uses static URLs. In these cases, the page content can be determined through the use of either POST data or cookie information.
    - Managing issues in a report
      All issues are classified as open by default. You can see an issue classification by grouping by Issue Status.
      - Folder items that are affected by a change in issue status
        When you manage an issue, the change in issue status can affect folder items, depending on what type of folder item they are.
      - Changing issue severity levels in a report
        You can modify issue severity on an issue by issue basis within reports so you can change the predefined severity levels to comply with your organization's standards.
      - Changing your view of classified issues in a report
        Changing your view of classified issues in a report helps you manage your issues more effectively by filtering out the issues you are not interested in so you can focus on just the issues you are currently working on.
      - Assigning issues to your team
        You can assign issues to your team by sending them an email with an Excel spreadsheet of the issues they must fix.
      - Submitting defects to Rational® Quality Manager or Rational Team Concert™
        If you use Rational® Quality Manager or Rational Team Concert™ to track defects, you can submit defects for tracking right from the reports. If you want users to submit issues as defects from an application in the Monitor view, do not configure Rational Team Concert in the Administration view.
    - Exporting data for offline analysis
      Exporting report data is useful if you have team members that do not directly access the Enterprise Console; you can export the report data to an XML file, Excel spreadsheet, pdf or CSV file for them to use.
    - Correlating static analysis data with dynamic analysis data
      Import data from AppScan® Source to correlate its findings with an existing dynamic analysis security scan (AppScan Enterprise Server content scan job or an AppScan Standard import job).
    - Reports
    - Track progress with executive dashboards
      Use the dashboard to track and consolidate the severity metrics and trends of your web applications or website over time. You can combine data from different business areas (such as sales, marketing, or products), specific issue types, or developers so you can see a complete picture of your web properties or applications. Security analysts or web managers can use this high-level view to quickly study interactive reports about the issues.
- Configuration Manager
- AppScan resources
  A GitHub collection of integrations, helper scripts, utilities, useful examples, libraries, and other resources related to HCL AppScan.
Glossary

Changing issue severity levels in a report

You can modify issue severity on an issue by issue basis within reports so you can change the predefined severity levels to comply with your organization's standards.

Procedure

Find the report that contains the issues you want to change.
Select the issues. The screen will refresh and the issues you have selected will be highlighted with a gray background.
Select a new severity level from the Action field and click Apply. The screen will refresh with the new severity icon beside each selected issue.
Note: If you do not see the changes you have just made in the results, make sure you have marked the issues to be shown in the results.