The Report dialog is displayed when creating a new report in the system
On a new install a default Report of five minutes duration is automatically created. This report can be used or deleted depending on whether it is wanted or not. |
General
Label
The Label field for the new report is a required field and is blank by default. The user will not be able to save this new report until all required fields are entered.
Interval
The use may enter the interval for the report in the Interval field, the resolution of the interval is specified in hours, minutes and seconds.
Start Offset
The report may have an offset time associated with it.
For example a report interval of 24 hours may be required but the user doesn't want the report to run from midnight to midnight but instead from 09:00 AM to 09:00 AM. In this case the user would enter an offset of 9 hours.
The offset may be specified in hours, minutes and seconds.
Enabled
This report can also be enabled or disabled by selecting or deselecting the Enabled tick box.
Modbus
See Modbus Slave Report for details on exposing this report over Modbus.
Report Channels
Automatically Generated / Manually Defined
This toggle switch allows for ease of use and advanced functionality
When in the Automatically Generated position, the toggle switch will automatically add any new channels to this report with the averaged aggregation applied.
If the channel is deemed to be a vector channel then the vector average aggregation is applied.
Automatically Generated Report Channels
The user should select this option if they may forget to add any new channels to the report and the only aggregation that is needed is averaging. |
Manually Defined
The Manually Defined position allows the user to add individual channels to the report and to select all of the functions that they want applying to those channels.
Manually Defined Report Channels
See Channel Functions for the types of functions supported.
This allows for a more fine-grained approach when setting up reports although it does make the user responsible for remembering to add any new channels in the system.
Use the Add button to add a new channel at the bottom of the list of current channels. Select the channel and aggregation function (if applicable) to be used.
Example of a Manually Defined Channel
To remove a channel from the report, simply click on the Remove (Trashcan icon) button.
The settings must be saved before the new report is available for use. If no channels have been added to this new report then a warning will be displayed.