Manage Reports
System reports provide an overall snapshot of select system information.
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In Reports, select Add > System Report.
To reuse settings from an existing alarm report, select the report, then select Add > Copy Selected Report. -
Complete the General tab:
- Name
- Type a unique name for the new report.
- Report owner
- Your viewLinc username appears automatically, as the report owner. If you have Manage Reports right, you can select a different or additional user to modify this report.
- Time zone
- Change this value if reporting time zone is not the same as the server time zone.
- PDF font
- If you want to generate a report that uses in Chinese or Japanese characters, select the language. Otherwise, leave as No Asian Characters to reduce the generated file size.
- Available as quick report
- Allow users to generate this report from the Sites and Overview windows. Quick reports generate data for the user's selected Location(s) or view(s).
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Complete the Automatic
Generation section:
For large report data sets, we recommend that you schedule report generation at a time when few users are using the system, such as after business hours. - Generate and email
- Generate and then send the report directly to specific viewLinc users and groups.
- Generate and save
- Generate and then save the report to a specific file location.
- Save To
- Specify an accessible network server or restricted file location where you want the report saved.
- Language
- Saved reports are automatically generated in the system default language unless a report language is specified.
- Start generating
- Set the data generation start date and time.
- Generate report every
- Set the start date and time you want the report generated.
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On the Content tab, identify the data you want included in the report:
- Server
- Include viewLinc Enterprise Server configuration details.
- System Preferences
- Include the currently selected viewLinc system preferences.
- Alarm templates
- Include details for selected templates (active and deactivated).
- Users and groups
- Include all users and/or groups, and their assigned permissions to Locations. The report shows the highest available permission for each Location, listed alphabetically by user or group.
- Sites
- Include Location details about current threshold and device alarm templates, and permission levels granted to users/groups for each Location (active and deactivated).
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The report lists highest available permission for the user or group, listed alphabetically by Location. - Devices
- Include a list of all linked system hosts, data loggers and transmitters (active and deactivated).
- Save the new report.