Report Manager 1.6.0
 
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1. Conventions
2. General information about David system
3. Terminology
4. Installation
5. Report Manager requirements
6. Installation
7. General
8. Report Manager (dreportd)
9. Buttons the most often used in Web applications
10. Report Manager Configurator
11. Report Browser
 
 

11.2. Description

11.2.1. Default view of the application

Report Browser is accesible through Weather tab. In the top part of the application the toolbar is placed, which is characteristic for all Web application. Below it, there is the toolbar with objects, that define kinds of presented data. Meaning of particular fields presents the chart below:

Table 11.1. Report Browser - the toolbar objects

Object Description
Date A date, that concerns the report. For a monthly report is no importance a day while for a yearly report is no importance additionally a month.
Type A report type defining its time range. The following values are possible: daily, monthly and yearly.
View It means, if a report, sum up a selected period of time, is presenting or a report showing subperiods (i.e.: for daily report subperiods are hours, while for monthly one are days).
Sort It defines a sort type of results of filter working. A type by Result sorts results decreasingly according to a nuber of occurences of particular results. A type by Duration sorts results according to duration time of particular entries.
Size Depending on a context, it sets a width and height of graphs.
Filters A kind of presented filter results (default filters or all). The field matters in the case of presenting of filter groups, and not in the case of a selected filter.

A report generating according to selected field values is made by pressing the button . At the end of the toolbar navigational buttons are placed, that allow to browse the report results in next periods of time (i.e.: days).

Clicking on a graph bar causes, that you get into the object which it concerns, using Node Browser. For results of filters concerning monitored devices, clicking on the bar causes, that you get into the report about a selected object by a selected period of time, using Node Report Browser. Clicking out of the graph bar causes, that you get into a working view of a single filter.

11.2.2. A working view of a single filter

The view shows working results of a single filter and not their groups. The most operations is similar to the view of filters group. There is, below the graph, a list of all generated results for a given filter with selected positions presented on the graph. Thanks this, you can select positions, that you want to place on the graph. The button restores a selection of default positions.

11.2.3. A working view of a single filter presenting subranges

One difference in comparison with a whole report presenting working results of a single filter is another type of a graph. It shows results devided on subranges of a perid of time.