Chapter 6. Report

Table of Contents

6.1. Report types
6.1.1. Live Report
6.1.2. Live Document
6.1.3. Fixed document
6.2. Simple report
6.3. Ad hoc report
6.4. Generating a new report
6.4.1. Selection of data sources
6.4.2. Selecting templates and sequences
6.4.3. Report progress and cancel
6.5. Standard Reports
6.5.1. Selecting a report type
6.5.2. Selecting an image
6.5.3. Filter settings
6.6. Opening a report
6.7. Editing a live report
6.7.1. Editing the live document
6.8. Saving a report
6.9. Printing a report

6.1. Report types

As of Version 2.4.0, OMNITREND Web distinguishes between other different report types. These other types have the property of saving the determined data for the report together with the report. It is now possible to analyze the data in the diagrams at any time and to continuously edit texts, graphics and tables.

When saving a report, in certain cases you can change between report types; see: Save Report.

6.1.1. Live Report

A live report basically uses the available data from the data pool of the database in generating. Should new data enter the database between two generations (opening) of reports, these data become immediately effective corresponding to the set filters, and the report then also depicts the new data in altered form. The report can accordingly contain further pages, or the diagrams and tables change. Not only the altered or refreshed data, but also changes in other settings or deletions, effect an immediate change of the report after opened. This report type is then "live" and reacts to changes in the database.

Changes affecting the result of the report include the following:

  • Changes in alarm limits

  • Removal or addition of tree nodes

  • Changes in filter settings

  • In an ad hoc report, selection of a different tree node

Note that on opening a live report you can edit the elements, but cannot save the changes can in the report. After editing, the report with the changes can be saved in a different format or printed out. This allows immediate editing, analysis and evaluation of a live report and subsequent storage in another form. The following elements of the report can be adapted:

  • Descriptive texts of tables

  • View and scaling options of diagrams

  • Images

  • Text fields

6.1.2. Live Document

A live document uses data from the data pool of the database at the time of creation. In saving, the live document enters the determined data together with the report elements and settings in the report. The settings, filters and data are then converted in a suitable way and saved in the document in a form recoverable for the live document. The saved results of the report thus remain unchanged independently of the settings that were effective in the generation. The contained data, texts, images, etc. in the document are nevertheless "live" and can be arbitrarily changed and saved in the document again in altered form. If data are changed in the data pool of the database (e.g. deleted), these changes will not affect the document, since all data are saved in the document and are preserved. The report then falls in the category of a simple report.

Changes made within the live document to texts, images and elements can be saved, in contrast to the live report.

The contents of each report page can be edited and remain also unchanged in form for each page; see: Editing the live document

6.1.3. Fixed document

The fixed document report type corresponds to a PDF report and can no longer be changed after generation.