# Metadata reports help

**URL:** <https://community.aristotlemetadata.com/t/metadata-reports-help/410>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [December 19, 2022, 4:12am UTC](https://community.aristotlemetadata.com/t/metadata-reports-help/410 "2022-12-19T04:12:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![skew](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.aristotlemetadata.com/skew/32/230_2.png) [@skew](https://community.aristotlemetadata.com/u/skew)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 4:12am UTC](https://community.aristotlemetadata.com/t/metadata-reports-help/410/1 "2022-12-19T04:12:03Z")

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Hi team,

Just wondering if you can help with a couple of questions about using the metadata reports.

I want to run a report that tells me if a metadata item is missing a particular attribute. For example, out of all of my object classes, which ones are not mapped to an object class specialisation etc. At the moment, if I add the attribute in question (e.g. objectclassspecialisationnarrowerclass.specialisation.name) it automatically filters my report results to only display results where a value exists for that attribute. Is there another way I can use the reports to find items where the values are blank?

My other question is, I want to add to some reports the user name that created the item and last modified an item. I can only find the submitter name as a variable, but I’m not quite sure what this is referring to and it doesn’t appear to be either creator/updater.

Thanks in advance 🙂

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**Author:** ![skew](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.aristotlemetadata.com/skew/32/230_2.png) [@skew](https://community.aristotlemetadata.com/u/skew)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 1:18am UTC](https://community.aristotlemetadata.com/t/metadata-reports-help/410/2 "2022-12-20T01:18:36Z")

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I have also noticed with the reports, that there is a misalignment between column headings and values that sometimes occurs. It seems to happen at least when the workgroup\_name variable is added.