Often there is some reason you would like to inform Ansys Dynamic Reporting users of recent or upcoming changes to an ADR server. To do this, create a message of the day report. In Ansys Dynamic Reporting, there is one reserved report name. If you create a report template and give it the name __motd__ (two underscores, motd, and two more underscores), that report template is rendered in the Ansys Dynamic Reporting banner, right before the Learn more button. This report is not available through the Reports menu.

You can have multiple message of the day reports and they are all displayed. These reports do not have items selected beforehand so to display data item content, use the filter options to start a new query directly from the database.

Example

The following front page was generated with a pair of message of the day reports:

The two reports were configured as follows:

Notice the one on the left does a filter for tree items using the database (replace) mode to bring data items into the report.