Run Report wizard

The Run Report wizard guides you through running either a standard report or a custom report.

Select Report

On this page you can select the report you want to run.

1. Select a report in the list.

2. Do one of the following:

   • Click RUN WITH DEFAULTS to run the report automatically with default settings (see Run Report wizard – Default settings). The subsequent wizard pages are not displayed and you are redirected directly to the Summary page (see Summary).
   • Click NEXT if you want to configure the report before creating it.

Settings

The Report Settings page allows you to define various settings for the report.

1. Select the report template via Template to use, either HTML, PDF, or XML.
2. Select the output time zone, which will be used for all date and time records in the report.

3. Select the time period.

   • If you select Last, enter a number and select a unit of time from the drop-down list. The report will contain data between the exact moment you run the report and the moment minus the interval you specified. For example, if you run a report on December 31 at 09:00 with Last 2 Days specified, the report will contain data from 09:00, December 29, to 09:00, December 31.
   • If you select For the following period, enter the start and end dates and times that you want the report to cover.
   • The start date and time of a report are inclusive. The end date and time are exclusive.

4. The Time Period field is available only if the query definition for this report does not contain an Audit:Timestamp condition.

5. Click NEXT to continue.

Runtime Queries

The Runtime Queries page allows you to define a query for this run of the report only. Both, the run-time queryand the queries defined with the report will be used. For more information about query rules, see Report query commands and rules.

On this page you can select one of the following:

• No runtime query required. Select this option to use only the query defined in the report.

• Define new runtime query. Select this option to define a new run-time query from the options available.

  Create a run-time query by doing the following:

  1. Click ADD NEW.
  2. Select the field that you want to enter from the drop down list.
  3. Select the condition from the drop down list.
  4. Enter the value, e.g. Serial Number Equals 390000.
  5. To add another filter, click ADD NEW.
  6. To remove a filter, click REMOVE.

Click NEXT to continue.

Schedule Task

Enter details to run or schedule this task.

Click NEXT to continue.

Summary

This page shows the result of the report.

If the report has been generated successfully, you can click OPEN REPORT to display the results in a new window.

If the report has been generated successfully, but the report generator does not recognize the file extension provided, a confirmation message appears requesting you to enter another name.

If the report has not been generated successfully, click Click here to see a list of errors to see the errors generated for this report.