Automatic Reports

The Report Toolkit allows users to create Automatic Report Summaries in Word format and/or in text format.  The Reports may be generated automatically once every day, week, month, quarter and/or year and sent as Email to contacts.  Reports may also be generated manually as needed.  If you choose Report in Word-format, Microsoft Word needs to be installed on the PC.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

1. In db.robot.c, configure the report, see below.
2. Add Notes to a Reports, see more about Notes.
3. Send report automatically to a list of contacts as email.
   
   For example create a month report on the 1st of each month or create a year report on January 1st.

 

VDV Reports are flexible and you will be able to create a format that suits your needs.

Download our demonstration reports to see them for yourself.
Right click on the links and select Save as to save them to your computer.

• Day Report: Microsoft Word, TXT
• Week Report: Microsoft Word, TXT
• Month Report: Microsoft Word, TXT
• Year Report: Microsoft Word, TXT

 

Screenshots showing Report Setup in Vista Data Vision.
Every aspect of the Report may be customized. Enter a Header, Introduction and Conclusion to the Report. Select to include Units and Summary Labels. Summaries for Min and Max can include a timestamp when the measurement was made. It is also possible to include Notes in Reports.

Select Variables to include in the Report. Easily combine variables from different Sites. For each variable added to the report you can select the summary action, possible actions are: Average, Max, Min, Sum, Sum/Period.

For Text Reports you can choose the column seperator and the file ending. Text reports can be easily imported into Excel for further analyzis.

Reports can be generated as Microsoft Word Files. The user can customize Paper Orientation, Font Type, Font Sizes, Header & Footer. Include your logo in the report. It is also possible to define graphs for the report. See the demonstration Reports above for a MS Word report.

Reports can be generated automatically and sent to a Group of Contacts. Define how frequently you want to generate the report, possible options are every: day, week, month, quarter and year. Notice that you can select as many options as you like, for example you can create a week, month and year report. That would mean that every week a report would be generated, also on the 1st of each month a report would be created for the previous month, finally a year report would be generated on January 1st for the previous year.