User`s guide

22 Verex Director V4.9.1 User's Guide 21-0381E v4.9.1
Guard Tour Reports
Guard tour reports allow viewing or printing a
listing of events pertaining to previous guard
tours for a specific account. A date/time range
can be specified, and the report can also be
limited to specific items such as guard tour
alarms, or the guard arriving early or late.
TechTip: Reports pertaining to past events are based
on the present event list, plus any archived data that
has been re-imported using the archive feature.
See: "Exporting or Importing Activity or Audit Logs".
Active Guard Tours
: For details on monitoring a guard-
tour, refer to "Guard Tours".
As well, guard tour reports can be viewed
and/or printed right away, saved for future
reference, or exported for manipulation with
another program.
For better performance, activity and guard-tour reports
cover only the latest 5000 messages in the activity log.
For even faster execution, keep the activity log to a
suitable size via regular use of the Archive and/or
Purge features.
See: "Exporting or Importing Activity or Audit Logs",
and "Removing old Activity or Audit Logs".
Running a Guard Tour Report
1) Select Guard Tour Report from your
MyTools bar, or
click [Reports] in the 'tree',
and select Guard Tour.
2) Multi-Account Systems
: Select the desired
account near the centre of the screen.
Tip: This option appears only if you didn't already
have an account 'open' in the tree.
3) Select the date/time range to be covered by
the report (under "From" and "To").
Tip: See the item-descriptions if you need help.
4) Select the types of events to be included in
the report (you must select at least one).
5) Select
a report 'destination' (i.e., whether it is
to be viewed, printed, or saved as a file).
If you select "Archive" or a type of "File", click
[File...], set the location and filename as
desired, and click Save.
6) Click [Run], and respond to any additional
screen(s) that appear (details to follow).
For details on viewing and printing displayed reports,
refer to "Working with the Report Viewer".
If Printing a Guard Tour Report
To print a report without viewing it first: Select
the type of report and other criteria as usual,
and select Printer as the destination. Then,
select Run, and click OK when the 'Print'
screen appears. Tip: To select a different
printer click Printer, and make your selection
from the 'Print Setup' screen that appears.
To view a report before printing
: Select the
type of report and other criteria as usual,
and select 'Screen' as the destination.
Then, click Run.
For details on viewing and printing the
displayed report, refer to "Working with the
Report Viewer".
If Exporting a Guard Tour Report as a
File (Archive/Text File/Report Emulation
File)
Select the type of report and other criteria as
usual, and the desired file-type as the
'destination'. Then, click [File...]. In the next
screen, set the location and filename as
desired, and click Save when finished. Then
click Run.
Viewing/Printing a Previously Saved
Guard Tour Report-Archive
Select Guard Tour Report from your MyTools
bar, or
click [Reports] in the 'tree', and select
Guard Tour. Then, click [Load archived
report] at the bottom of the form.
Multi-Account Systems: You do not have to select an
account since that was done when the report was
archived.
In the next screen, locate and select the
desired archived report (.raf), and click Open
(or simply double-click the file).
For details on viewing and printing displayed reports,
refer to "Working with the Report Viewer".
Screen Reference
Reporting on Previous Guard-Tours