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  3. Section V. Report Reference
  4. File Analytics Reports
  5. Create Dates

Create Dates

Explore your data center using customizable report templates or by using parts of your IT infrastructure as entry points. Use Search to find reports, templates and dashboards across the portal.

Use the Reports tab to examine the catalog of templates, dashboards and reports - organized by products along with user-created, and system folders. This report is located here:

File Analytics > File Dates > Create Dates

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View bar charts that represent the age of groups of files since they were first allocated. Use this report to get an understanding of the trend of file creations to plan for storage requirements.

Table: Create Dates

Column name

Description

Period

Time frame, in months, for the displayed data. Future Dated/Before Create refers to files that have a time stamp that is outside of the normal time frame, typically due to programmatic manipulation; for example, 01 Jan 2030.

# Files

Number of files accessed/created/modified during this time period

Files %

% of all files in this report that fall within this time period

Total Size

Sum of the number of files in this time period

Size %

Size, relative to all files represented in this table

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