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title: "Validatar Training Exercise 13: How to Create Reports"
slug: "exercise-13-create-an-event-report-from-scratch"
description: "Training Exercise 13 teaches you how to create a Validatar report, specifically event history, and how to subscribe to a report to get regular updates on changes."
updated: 2024-06-27T18:02:02Z
published: 2024-06-27T18:02:03Z
canonical: "docs.validatar.com/exercise-13-create-an-event-report-from-scratch"
---

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# Exercise 13: Create an Event Report from Scratch

Learning Goals

          

- How do I create a new report?
- What information does an event history report have?
- How do I add filters to a report?
- How do I add columns to a report?
- How do I manage access to reports?
- How do I create a subscription on a report?

#### Step 1 - Create an Event History Report

- Go to Reports Section in the top banner
- Click on the Standard Dataset: Event History
- Click Create New Report
- Click Edit Filters
- Add a filter on Date is in the Last X Days = 7
- Add another filter on Event Name is Test Created, Template Test Created, Folder Created, Job Created ![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/a80bc2a3-87d3-4dc2-9244-a16f33ed193c/Images/Documentation/image%28101%29.png)
- Click Apply
- Click Configure
- Edit the Report name to something specific like "Creation Events in last 7 Days"
- Update the Report Description

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/a80bc2a3-87d3-4dc2-9244-a16f33ed193c/Images/Documentation/image%28102%29.png)

- Update
- Save

#### Step 2 - Grant Specific Access

- Click Configure
- Uncheck All Users view rights
- Add a user you would like to share this report with
- Grant them edit rights to the report
- Update
- Save

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/a80bc2a3-87d3-4dc2-9244-a16f33ed193c/Images/Documentation/image%28104%29.png)

#### Step 3 - Set up a Subscription for a Weekly Email

- Go to the subscriptions tab
- Click New
- Name the Subscription "Weekly new Creations"
- Add your team to the recipients
- Set Send Email to Weekly
- Select the day of the week you would like it to send
- Select the time on that day
- Check the box, "Don't send if report is empty"
- Give the Email a subject like "Weekly New Created Items in Validatar"
- Add Subscription

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/a80bc2a3-87d3-4dc2-9244-a16f33ed193c/Images/Documentation/image%28105%29.png)