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RtReports

RtReports server reporting settings

  • Last UpdatedAug 15, 2023
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Report processing

Reporting settings control reporting processes that occur at the server level.

Configurations for the reporting settings in the %PIHOME%\RtReports\web.config, within the <appSettings> section.

Setting name

Controls

Default

Setting options

AllowCommentAfterApprove

Whether users can comment on an approved report

False

True, False

AllowCommentAndVerify

Whether comments and verifications are enabled for the system

True

True, False

AllSectionVerifiedToApprove

Whether all sections of a report must be verified prior to approval

False

True, False

AllowMultipleVerification

Whether users can verify the same section of a report

True

True, False

AllowHtmlMarkup

Allows users to insert HTML formatting into the display of the RtReports Editor

False

True, False

ARGSenderEmail

The email account from which reports are sent to other users

N/A

Email address

ARGQueryInterval

How often to check for closed batches/Event Frames

30

Number, in seconds

ARGVerboseLogging

The amount of detail written to the Event Viewer logs

False

True, False

CheckUnitClasses

Whether to skip an empty report's unit class for the report's section.

When the setting is true, the empty unit class criteria is skipped. If the report has only the equipment criteria, the selected batch is matched based only on the equipment criteria.

When this setting is false, the empty unit class criteria is not skipped. If the report has only the equipment criteria, the selected batch is matched based on the equipment criteria, and always matches an empty report class criteria.

False

True, False

CompletedBatchOnly

If this is true, only completed batches will be returned in Event Frame searches

False

True, False

DefaultStartTime

Default query time used in the generator

*-8h

PI time syntax

DisplayOfficialMark

Allows the official mark to be printed on all reports

True

True, False

eMailErrorTo

Email address for the RtReports system administrator

rtreports@hotmail.com

e-Mail address or alias for the actual address

ErrorSuppressionTime

Error Suppression

0

0 (default) - no suppression.

1 thru x - duplicate errors are suppressed for a number of minutes.

-1 - errors are completely suppressed.

FontSize

Default font size 10, maximum font size 15

10 (default), 15 (max)

Number, in points

InitialBatchSearch

Whether generator automatically runs a batch search on opening the batch search page in the generator

True

True, False

InitialPage

Default web page that opens when starting RtReports

Batch

Batch, Report

LegacyDescriptors

  • The result definitions for AF/EF Attribute show the descriptor and engineering units from the underlying PI Point if the AF/EF Attribute does not have one

  • The Profile/Summary Value result definitions for AF/EF Attributes show the AF/EF Description (on Descriptor 12) and the TagName of PI Point Data Reference if it exists (on Descriptor 14)

  • The Profile/Summary Value result definitions for PI Point/PI Alias show the Engineering Units (on Descriptor 17)

  • The result definition's description is added to the data journal

  • To preserve functionality prior to 4.2 (generate data journal without these changes), please set LegacyDescriptors = false

False

True, False

LegacyPrint

This setting emulates RtReports 3.3 printing settings. Table headers will not be shown on every page and text in tables will be shown in black (and not inherit colors from a parent table) if this setting is set to true.

True

True, False

ParsePhaseName

Whether the phase-level sub batch names have the operation name removed before applying the name matching for the corresponding sub batch template

True

True, False

True = phasename

False = Operation(phasename)

PreferredSearchMode

Allows the user to configure the batch search settings for Event Frames

Default

Default, EF

RefreshInterval

How often to refresh the report status phase page

30

Time, in seconds

RefreshStatus

Whether the status page is refreshed by the RefreshInterval setting

True

True, False

ReportPropertyTagPrefix

PI tag prefix for tags created to store report properties

__ ReportProperties$

[ReportPropertyTagPrefix][ReportName]

ReportRequestInterval

Refresh interval for the report page

15

Time, in seconds

RootPath

URL location to the virtual directory that has RtReports generator

https://[localhostname]/RtReports

URL pointing to virtual directory for RtReports generator

SaveCredentials

User name is autocompleted if it was entered before

True

True, False

If it is false, the user name is not autocompleted

Server

PI Server name for location of batch data, report templates, and time series data

PI Server detected during installation

Valid PI Server name

ShowTimeZoneAbbreviations

Whether the time zone information is shown with the date/time (Batch Search, Report Search, Cache Management Pages)

False

True, False

SnapshotDelayTime

The amount of time that must pass before a report is considered complete, in seconds

180

Time, in seconds

SortUnitSubBatch

Sorting unit batches/sub-batches for spanning

True

True/False

If it is false, the unit batches/sub-batches are used in the order they were created. This only applies to PI batches

SupportTrendTimeZone

Time zone for trend data

True

True/False

The trend data is shown in the report’s time zone. If it is false, it preserves old behavior

UseBatchGUIDOnly

What context is stored in the RtReports History tag

False

True, False

By default, this setting is set to false, so that RtReports mimics previous versions behavior.

If this setting is set to true then only the top level batch GUID will be stored in the report history tag, regardless of which batch context was selected to run the report against. It will still preserve previously generated reports that were run against unit batch and subbatch contexts.

Additionally, if this setting is set to true, then in order to not be empty, the report is required to have at least one of the recipe and/or product criteria.

TemplatePath

The path in the PI Module Database used to store report templates

\%OSI\RtReports

Valid file path within PI Module Database

ThreadPoolSize

Number of Reports to run. Only accepts 1

1

1

TrendErrorImagePath

The path and image used for errors within RtReports generator

//RtReports/Images/TrendError.gif

Valid file path to image file

UpdateRunTimeSummary

The setting controls whether the Report execution times are updated. When this setting is true, a run-time summary is provided on the report listing page and updated each time the report is run. Otherwise, the summary is not updated

True

True / False

UserAthenticationRoot

The name of the computer used to look up group security attributes.

WinNT://localhost,computer

Computer name

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