14.1 The Reports Page

The Reports page is displayed below.

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The elements of the Reports page are numbered to help guide you through the report generation process. A brief description of each follows. For more complete information, please refer to the Developer's Guide.

 

1. Report Type         Select from one of the pre-defined types of reports.  These include: Snapshot reports, totals for given timeframes and standard reports.

 

2. Tag List               Select the tags whose values are to be included in the report. You can save lists of tags as groups, to be used in future reports.

 

3. Reporting Period   Set a start and end time to be covered by the report, or select a pre-set time frame.

4. Number of Consecutive Reports  Set the number of repetitions of the report to be generated according to the reporting period.

 

5. Report Destination Reports can be saved in a multitude of different formats. Options include text files (many formats), Excel files (with an option to use a template to summarize and format the data), Access files, ODBC data sources, e-mail, direct-to-printer, etc.

 

6. Report Options      Includes options of relevance only when saving the report to either MS Excel or Access format.