User Guide

Reports
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Siemens
User Guide Version 3.0
A6V10415471
Building Technologies
2017-11-30
NOTE:
If you have not configured the destination in the Report Output Definition, the
report is routed to the path specified in the location supervised folder under
Management System > Servers > Main Server > Report Manager > Report
Default Folder.
8.1.11 Viewing Data of Deleted Objects
You can view the data related to deleted objects from the Orphans, Orphan
Activities, Orphan Events, and Orphan Trends tables. This data relates to the
activity records, event records, or trend records of deleted objects. To view these
tables, you must enable the View Orphan Logs application right from the Security
node in the Management View. In order to view the data of such objects, perform
the following steps:
1. Create a new report definition and add the Orphans table to it.
2. Add a condition filter to this table and set the value of the Orphan Type column
to either of the following
a) Objects
b) Trends
3. Run the report definition.
The details of all the deleted objects displays.
4. Generate an Excel or PDF output by clicking Create and view Excel or
Create and view PDF .
5. Depending on the type of data (Objects or Trends) to be displayed for the
deleted objects, perform the following steps:
a. To view activity related information of deleted objects, insert the Orphan
Activities table.
b. To view the event related information of deleted objects, insert the Orphan
Events table.
c. To view the trended information of deleted objects, insert the Orphan Trends
table.
6. Navigate to the location where you have saved the Excel or PDF file, and then
copy the Object Identifier of the deleted object whose data should display.
7. Add a condition filter to either the Orphan Activities, Orphan Events, or Orphan
Trends tables and set the value of the Object Identifier column to the value you
copied from the generated Excel or PDF file.
8. Run the report definition.
The details of the deleted objects display depending on the value of the
specified Object Identifier.
8.1.12 Printing Automatically Generated Reports
1. In System Browser, select Application View.
2. Select Applications > Reports.
3. Click the Settings tab.
4. From the Report Output group box, click Dialog Launcher .
The Report Output Definition dialog box displays.