<h2>What<a id="What is a Reporting Collection?</h2>

<p>Reporting collections allow you to collate separate groups of users from across your entire organisation. You are no longer constrained to your actual organisational structure. For example, you could create a  <i>Virtual group</i> for reporting purposes only. This will enable you to report on all of your Sales teams from across the country, and compare like-for-like, as a single Virtual group. In this way the Sales manager would get access to all his Sales teams stats without having to trawl through the call stats for other teams on other sites.</p>

<img src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_enterprise/reporting_collections.gif" alt="Reporting Collection" />

<h2>Adding a Reporting Collection group</h2>

<p>To add a Reporting Collection to the Directory, simply select <span class="button">Reporting Collection</span> from the <span class="reference">Organisation unit</span> list as shown below and give it a name that represents its function e.g. "UK Northern Sales" group as shown below. Then click <span class="button">Add</span> to put in to your Directory.</p>

<img class="screenshot border" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_enterprise/reporting_collection_1.png" alt="Adding a Reporting Collection" />

<p>There are no limits to the amount of Reporting Collections you can add so you can set up your TIM Enterprise Directory to faithfully mimic your actual organisational directory. You simply select the Reporting Collection, give it a name and add it.</p>

<h2>Adding objects to a Reporting Collection group</h2>

<p>To add sites, groups or users to a Reporting Collection group, simply right-click on the directory object you want to select for reporting purposes and select <span class="button">Copy</span> to copy to the clipboard, as shown below. The copied object show automatically on the right-hand side of the window. To select more directory objects, simply drill up and down through your Directory and follow the same procedure.</p>

<img class="screenshot" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_enterprise/copy_groups.png" alt="Copy directory objects" />

<p>To move all of the objects on the clipboard into the Reporting Collection group, simply open your Reporting Collection group which is "UK Northern Sales" in our example, tick alongside the objects on the right-hand side of the window that require moving and then press <span class="button">Paste</span>, as shown below:</p> 

<img class="screenshot" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_enterprise/paste_groups.png" alt="Paste directory objects" />

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