Viewing reports for assets

You can view information about the asset search history, downloads, permissions, and also the amount of time it took to produce the asset and the estimated time it would take you to reuse the asset. A list of asset subscribers and user permissions are also provided.

Before you begin

To view the reports for an asset, you must have the appropriate permissions to view that asset.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the IBM® Rational® Asset Manager web client.
  2. Find an asset. To find an asset, use the My Dashboard page, asset subscriptions, the sidebars on the Home page, or any combination of keywords, filters, or tags on the Assets page.
  3. Click the name of the asset.
    The General Details page opens.
  4. On the General Details page, in the sidebar click Reports. The Reports list expands.
  5. Click the type of report to view:
    • Asset Usage: Shows summaries of downloads by date and by user. You can limit the time range to the most recent week, month, quarter, year, or since the asset was created. A usage is counted when a user downloads either the entire asset or an artifact in this asset. One download per hour, per user is counted as a usage; for example, if a user downloads 10 artifacts in one hour, those downloads count as one usage.
    • Activity: Lists all changes to the asset and the user who made the change.
    • Asset Search History: Lists all search queries that have led repository users to this asset.
    • Permissions: Lists the asset level permissions given to users and groups across the entire repository. Permissions included are defined by the community, in lifecycles, or as explicit permissions. Permissions are shown only for assets in a lifecycle. you can also to filter permissions by user or group.
    • Related Assets: Lists all assets that are related to the asset. You can filter by relationship type and change the Depth field to control how many layers of related assets appear.
    • Subscribers: Lists all the users receiving notifications about the asset.

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