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Before we can preview the report or results of the Merge condition, it must be linked to a report, achieved by dragging the Merge operator over the Report element for the connection to be established. But before this is done, is there a desire to have a field sorted in ascending or descending order by default? If so, an Order operator is needed, done by selecting + Operator, filter the Operator list for order, select Order and click on Select. With the Order added to the custom template, it must be linked so that the Merge operator is linked to Order and then finally to the report element as shown in Figure 42.
Selecting the Order operator, its properties are displayed and defining the order of a field is set in the parameter property. Select the field to which order will be applied and whether it is ascending or descending. Once done, select Save located in the lower right of the Data Protection Advisor web UI. When the data sources and operators are linked to the report element, a preview of the results can be viewed. Below the description of the customer template, there is an option to Preview the results of the custom template. With the Preview option selected, define the scope and time period for the report and select the Preview button.
For this example, the scope of Backup Servers under Configuration | Servers is selected, and a time period of Last Day is used. A sample report shown in Figure 43, lists clients which exist in the CMDB and where the server is missing from a data protection perspective.