Specifications

Configuring Custom Reports
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Configuring Custom Reports
You can set up free format custom reports to show the results of completed
processes.
The following sections describe how you set up custom reports to run
automatically, and how you configure a free format report for recipes.
Running Custom Reports Automatically
To configure a report to run automatically at the end of a process, you define a
digital value in a controller that changes state at the end of the process:
• Configure a status point to scan the digital value from the controller that
indicates the end of the process. For details about configuring points, see
“Main Properties” on page 120.
• Configure the Status Change Report Request Algorithm with this point so
that the required report will be run when the digital value changes to a
nominated state. For details about how to configure algorithms, see
“Configuring Algorithms” on page 193.
Configuring a Free Format Report
Free Format reports can include point values, calculated values, point history and
values from server database files. This section describes how to include
information from the server database file that is used to hold recipe configuration.
The procedures for configuring Free Format reports are described in “Configuring
Free Format Reports” on page 270.
All recipe configurations are stored in one server database file called the Recipe
table. Each record in this file contains the configuration for a single recipe. For
example, record number 3 holds the configuration for recipe number 3.
Each record in the Recipe table is divided into fields. Each field holds an item of
recipe configuration. For example, one field is used to hold the scale factor. Table
17.1, “Recipe Table Field Details,” on page 372 shows details about the fields in
each Recipe table record.
To read data from a field in the Recipe table, you specify:
• The file number of the Recipe table file. This number is 146.
• The Recipe number
• The starting location of the field, as specified in the Word Offset column
• The data type of the field, as specified in the Data Type column
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