Generating a Report

 

Generating reports is convenient and easy with VTS's Reports page. All report configuration data on the Reports page is numbered to assist you with generating your reports.

There are 7 basic steps to generate a report:

1.   Select the type of report that you wish to generate from the Report Type drop-down list.

2.   Select the tag(s) in the Tags Available list whose data you wish to be included in the daily snapshot report. (Remember, you may hold down the shift key and click to select multiple sequential tags, or you may hold down the Ctrl key and click to select multiple non-sequential tags).

3.   Click the > button to move the selected tags from the Tags Available list to the Tags in Report list (or use the >> to move all tags from the Tags Available list to the Tags in Report list).

4.   Select the preset time period that best reflects the period in which you want to extract data from the Presets drop-down list, or select Custom and use the Start Time and End Time spin boxes to customize the time period as you require. Note: If you wish to generate a series of consecutive reports within a given time period, please refer to Generating a Number of Report Iterations.

5.   Select an output option for the report from the Output Type drop-down list (report output types are described in Output Formats for Reports.)

6.   Configure the path, printer, e-mail address(es), or ODBC data source to which the report data should be saved.

7.   Click the Run Report button. The Progress of Report Generation dialog will open, as shown:

Topics in this section:

Using Report Tags to Generate Reports