Basic Information

Lists are available in both Ewida Standard and Ewida Audit. Both applications provide a shared group of basic lists, but each also has its own views resulting from its purpose. In Ewida Standard, more emphasis is placed on inventory records, costs, dates, and object history, while in Ewida Audit the focus is on auditing, alerts, and analyzing changes in the computer environment.

Lists have a tabular form, meaning a layout of columns and records. By default, each one opens with a basic set of columns, but the view can be changed with the Customize button visible in the top left corner. This lets you enable, disable, and rearrange columns depending on your needs.

Lists can be opened from the main menu for a selected object type, such as a user, set, device, software item, or license. They also support the context menu and double-click actions, so you can quickly move from the list to further work on a specific record.

My Lists

The My Lists mechanism is available in both Ewida Standard and Ewida Audit. It allows you to create your own lists tailored to the way a given company works. The user can choose columns from the main object, columns from related objects, and the relationships between them, and then save the finished list under a custom name.

Each such list later appears in the application menu and can be opened at any time. This is especially useful when the standard lists do not exactly match a specific need, for example when reporting for accounting, the IT department, administration, or management.

When creating your own list, it is worth remembering that its records always come from the main object. For example, if a My List is created for devices, then devices will be the main records in the list. Columns referring to related objects only extend the information about those records.

Columns of the main object can be recognized by the fact that they do not contain a dot in the name. Columns from related objects are built according to the pattern RELATIONSHIP TYPE.PROPERTY NAME. This makes it immediately clear from which type of relationship a given piece of information comes.

Types of Lists

Both applications provide several basic categories of lists. The simplest type is general lists, meaning the basic lists for a selected object type.

Another group is lists with related objects. These extend the view of the main object with data coming from elements related to it. For example, a list of users with software allows you to analyze user attributes and data about software assigned to them at the same time.

A separate category is verification lists, available for software and licenses. They are used to check whether specific data is consistent, for example product keys or licenses. It should be remembered, however, that in some licensing models, a repeated key does not necessarily mean an error.

There are also summary lists, which count occurrences of selected values from active columns. This means that the level of detail in the summary depends directly on which columns are enabled in the view. The more active columns there are, the more detailed the counting result becomes.

Specialized Lists

Some lists appear only in one of the applications because they result directly from its functions.

In Ewida Standard, these include, among others:

  • cost lists — for purchases, repairs, services, maintenance, and upgrades,
  • date-based lists,
  • event lists related to object history.

In Ewida Audit, these include, among others:

  • alert lists for audited hosts,
  • lists related to audit and monitoring results.

Both systems also include lists of related objects, opened for a specific item, as well as combined lists, which show data from many object types at the same time. Such views are useful when the analysis is meant to cover the entire inventory area or the whole audit rather than a single record type.

Detailed Reports

Detailed reports differ from standard lists because they use a property - value layout. Instead of presenting many records at once, they show a full description of one specific object. This makes them suitable for detailed data review, printing documentation, or analyzing how a given item relates to other objects.

Enabling and disabling record categories in a detailed report is also done with the Customize button. A report can be opened from the main menu for a selected object type, such as software, a device, or a user.

A detailed report is not limited to a single list of properties. It also includes a relationship tree with other items and an additional panel that lets you preview the detailed report of a related object. In practice, this means you can move from one item to the next without leaving the report window.

In Ewida Audit, there are also additional differential audit reports, showing differences between selected scans, and comprehensive audit reports, covering the full scope of data from the current audit.

Customizing the List View

Every list can be adjusted to your needs. This is done using the Customize button available in the upper part of the view. After clicking it, a wizard opens that allows you to change the way the list is presented.

One of the most important settings is the list mode. Two variants are available:

  • Optimal — faster and intended for working with a large number of records.
  • Grouping — more visual, allowing records to be divided into groups according to a selected property.

In the wizard, you can also set:

  • the order, width, and alignment of columns,
  • header texts,
  • record background colors,
  • the grouping column, if grouping mode is active,
  • grid lines,
  • remembering the list filter,
  • restoring default settings.

This matters because in practice the same list can serve different purposes. In one case, speed when working with many records matters most, and in another, a clearer grouped view is more useful for analysis or printing.

List Statistics

Every list can use the statistics mechanism. After it is enabled, summaries calculated from the data in the current view are displayed in the bottom panel. Statistics can also be transferred to the list print wizard, which makes it possible to use them in final documents.

Statistics can work in two basic modes:

  • Counting — when the goal is to count records meeting a given condition.
  • Summing — when the goal is to calculate totals of numeric values, for example costs.

Each statistic is based on the analyzed column, the label displayed next to the result, and the condition that defines which data should be taken into account. This makes it possible to create both simple counters and more practical summaries, for example the number of devices in a given category or the total costs of a selected area of the inventory.

This mechanism is especially useful when one list is meant not only for browsing records, but also for drawing quick numerical conclusions without the need for additional data export.

Filtering Lists

Filtering makes it possible to narrow the view to records that meet specific conditions. In practice, this is one of the most important mechanisms when working with lists, because it allows you to move from a general view of the whole collection to a specific slice of data.

A filter can be used temporarily only for the current analysis or, if the appropriate option is enabled in the view settings, remembered when the list is opened again. This makes it possible to prepare permanent working views for different departments, roles, or typical work scenarios.

Combined with properly selected columns, grouping, and statistics, filtering becomes one of the most important tools in everyday work with lists in Ewida Audit and Ewida Standard.

Summary

Lists and reports in Ewida Audit and Ewida Standard are one of the most important ways of working with data. They allow you not only to browse records, but also to analyze relationships, prepare detailed reports, create custom column layouts, calculate statistics, and build views tailored to the company’s needs.

In Ewida Standard, lists related to inventory records, costs, dates, and object history play a bigger role. In Ewida Audit, audit lists, alerts, and the analysis of data coming from computer scanning and monitoring are more important.

As a result, both programs, despite sharing common mechanisms for working with lists and reports, retain their own character and address different organizational needs.