Installation manual
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 Western (Mac OS Roman): Best choice if the report information uses the Roman
alphabet, and the exported document will be opened in an application or on an
operating system that doesn’t support Unicode text encoding (for example, some
installations of Mac OS 9).
 Unicode (UTF-8): Best choice if the exported le will be opened on Mac OS X and
contains no Asian language characters (such as Chinese or Japanese).
 Unicode (UTF-16): Best choice if the report contains Asian language characters.
7 Select a eld separator.
 Tab: Inserts a Tab character between column values.
 Comma: Inserts a comma between column values.
8 If you have selected only some rows of the report and want to export only the
selected rows, select Export Selected Items Only.
9 Click Save.
Using Report Windows to Work with Computers
After you’ve created a report, you can use it to select computers and then do any of
the following:
Create new computer lists Â
Select computers in the report window and select File > New List From Selection.
Generate other reports Â
Select any number of rows in a report window; then choose another report from
the Report menu. The new report will be generated based on the computers in the
selected rows.
Initiate any management task Â
Select any row in a report window; then choose a management task from the
Manage menu. This has the same eect as selecting the computer in an Apple
Remote Desktop computer list.
Interact with users Â
Select any row in a report window; then choose a task from the Interact menu.
This has the same eect as selecting the computer in an Apple Remote Desktop
computer list.
Delete a le from a computer Â
Select a le in any le or software report window and click the Delete button.
Copy an item to your computer Â
Select an item in any software report window and click “Copy to This Computer.”