User guide

Generating Historical Data Reports
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Events
, or a specific date range. If you choose a fixed
date range, use the calendars to indicate from/to dates.
Note: If you have Admin access, you can select a
Report Owner, the user you want to have access
to modify or generate this report (to set up a list
of users refer to the viewLinc Administrator
Guide).
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In the Scheduled Generation area of the General tab,
you can choose the format for your report (PDF or tab-
separate, for Excel), to automatically generate and save
the report to a specific file location, or send the report to
an email address or a list of addresses (use a comma to
separate email addresses). You can also schedule when
you want the report to generate, and how frequently you
want it generated.
Note: 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.
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On the Report Content tab determine whether you want a
brief report (with one line for each alarm) or a detailed
report (showing details about all alarm activities:
activation, notifications, acknowledgement, etc.).
5 On the Report Source Data tab define the report scope.
To include alarm report details from all channels, select
All Channels. You can also select specific channels and
zones:
a Select the option, Selected Channels and Zones.
b To select one or more channels in a zone, select the
zone name (checkbox).
c To select a specific channel in a zone, select the chan-
nel description (checkbox).