Reporting - Function - Duration
From VersaVision Support
- OVERVIEW
- Reporting is where the user can generate reports based on the data collected by the VersaVision software.
- There are multiple components inside Reporting, this page is focused on the Duration Function.
- When the user selects to setup a Mixed or Pie Chart report and selects to add a Data Series, the Function option will be enabled.
- This Function allows the user to define what type of data will be used in the Data Series.
- The Duration Function allows the user to show the total amount of time a Monitoring Point was active.
- Generally this would be used on a Process or Alert Monitoring Point.
- NAVIGATION
- After adding a new report or editing an existing report, the user will need to select or setup a cell with a Data Series selected.
- When this is selected the Function field will be available.
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- SETUP
- With the Data Series selected, click on the down arrow in the Function field.
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- Select Duration from the list.
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- The cell will reload showing 5 additional fields.
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- Attribute To - this option is used to tell the system when the time is to be attributed (Chop Up, Start, Respond, End).
- Should the time be attributed to the Start, the Respond, the End or should it be Distributed/Chopped Up.
- Overlap - this option is used to tell the system what to do with Durations that overlap.
- When totaling the Alert duration over multiple Locations, the user can select to total all of the Locations Alert Time or just the Alert time.
- Time - this option is used to specify what total time is to be in the data.
- The Total Duration, the Respond Duration or the Clear duration.
- Consider - this options determines how the Duration time is to be totaled based on the Shift.
- Total All of the Duration time, Total the Duration time that occurred in a shift, Total only Duration time that occurred in a shift omitting Breaks.
- Units - defines what Time unit is to be used/displayed on the report.
- Duration in Seconds, Duration in Minutes or Duration in Hours.
- Click on the down arrow in the Attribute To field.
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- There will be 4 options available - select the appropriate option for the report being created.
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- Chop Up - this will split the Duration between all times.
- Start - this will place the Duration time within the Start of the Alert/Process.
- Respond - this will place the Duration time within the Response of the Alert/Process.
- End - this will place the Duration time within the End of the Alert/Process.
- Click on the down arrow in the Overlap field.
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- There will be 3 options available - select the appropriate option for the report being created.
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- Allow - this will include total Duration regardless of the time overlap.
- Example - get the total duration of 2 Alerts that are active simultaneously. This option will add the total duration of both alerts together.
- Exclude - this will include the total Duration without the overlap.
- Example - get the total duration of 2 Alerts that are active simultaneously. This option will remove the overlap and treat both Alerts as one.
- Exclude by Location - this will exclude the overlap of the total Duration when using multiple locations.
- Example - get the total duration of 2 Alerts that are active simultaneously at 2 different locations. This option will remove the overlap and treat both Alerts as one location.
- Click on the down arrow in the Time field.
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- There will be 3 options available - select the appropriate option for the report being created.
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- Total - this will include total Duration of the Alert/Process.
- Response - this will include the total Duration from Start to Respond.
- Clear - this will include the total Duration from Respond to Clear.
- Click on the down arrow in the Consider field.
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- There will be 3 options available - select the appropriate option for the report being created.
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- All - this will include the total Duration of the Alert/Process.
- Example - a plant has 1 Shift (7am - 3pm) - an Alert is active after 3pm - this option will include all of the time even the time that occurred outside of the shift.
- Shift - this will include the total Duration within the Shift start & end times.
- Example - a plant has 1 Shift (7am - 3pm) - an Alert is active after 3pm - this option will only include the time that occurred between 7am and 3pm.
- Shift Non/Break - this will include the Duration within the Shift start & end times and remove any Break time.
- Example - a plant has 1 Shift (7am - 3pm) - an Alert is active after 3pm - this option will only include the time that occurred between 7am and 3pm plus it will remove any Break time that occurred.
- Click on the down arrow in the Units field.
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- There will be 3 options available - select the appropriate option for the report being created.
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- Seconds - this will show the Duration as Seconds on the report.
- Minutes - this will show the Duration as Minutes on the report.
- Hours - this will show the Duration as Hours on the report.
- When Advanced Options is enabled, the user will have 5 additional options.
- The user would select one of these options to override or append the parameters that have been previously setup.
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- Select the Link below for detailed information on setting up Advanced Options.
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