About date and time wildcards

If you need to create recurring reports that cover the same time period, you can use date and time variables (called "wildcards") in the report template. For example, you might want to produce a daily report that always covers the time period for the first shift, which starts at 8:00 a.m.

The wildcards are:

• #time Wildcard. Used as a placeholder for the current (today's) date, but a specified time.

• #date Wildcard. Used as a placeholder for a specific date and a specified time.

• #ReportTime Wildcard. Used as a placeholder for a defined report time to be used with either #date or #time.

The values used for the #date and #ReportTime wildcards are set for the entire report using the Report Options dialog box. For more information, see Configuring Report Options.

These wildcards are handled by the AVEVA Historian Client Report; queries that include them do not work in other query tools, such as the AVEVA Historian Client Query or the Microsoft Query Analyzer.