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1. Apply Page Template Apply Report Template Save As Page Template Save As Report Template Copy Report To Folder Delete Report For details on report configuration please refer to the corresponding topics of the Report Settings section of this manual Report Design In the Dream Report Designer Studio you can design report s You can define report and page templates for your report Page Template You can select an existing page template to apply to the current page then it will add all template elements to the report page without any damage to the existing report content and each template element pictures background graphic objects etc will be available for editing as independent objects Or you can create page templates to be easily used later within the reports A page template is similar to the headers and footers of a page in other software Ba cin 33 Copy Object 4 Paste Object Insert B Z Cut template tem Clipboard Quick Lau Q y E Driver A page template will save all static objects including images pictures backgrounds static drawings static text and some dynamic objects such as page number dynamic text and date time If you save any existing report page as a template all static objects will be saved and all dynamic statistic and analytic objects will be ignored 104 N Dream Report Oc
2. Home Connectivity Project Web Elements Tools Runtime eB p a wy Be ww B Tag Setpoint analysis Custom irtual Report Report UHH DSN Database archiving Aggregated Dictionary configuration Archive Import Instances filters Import Tool Manager configuration Data Filter Tools The Custom Archive Import Too Configuration dialog window will be opened Custom Archive Import Tool Configuration 3e Select Data hers Selected List Name Select Dala Source Data liam Hama Dalabhana 1 DDEC w Select Data ems Batch Date Motori Batch Data Meter C Impost all items Batch_DataMotor3 Add aa Data neteval moge List of archree import dehnshoris a By schedule O On absolute time Hame Date Source Ten ODBC Import date gwen 3 m howls W Tra User can create one or multiple archive import definitions To create a definition user has to 1 Put a logical name of that import definition into the Name edit box Import definition name is unique and can t be the same for multiple import definitions 2 In the Select Data Source combo box select required History access data source which will point to the needed external archive 3 Select data items which values you need to import To do it click on Select Data Items button and the item selection window where you can select all needed items will be opened All the selected items will appear in the Selected List of Data item names 247 Dream Report Ocean Data S
3. _ Bb obec_das E In ash kes of amha noda iimg FS J Configure siai BD sin_ Ata 2 SudeLink Protocol over TORP sn Aes E n oih historical aaus afi B WALH Hrboca Alene Aapatech Oper cymenure abg pohy Ciac Tj Gier Evol heim gg Lovie bled gi oles F mar rar i 5 t PECECOE Dala Source Descrphon Veta Histon ok ane The Configure button will be enabled Click on it to setup the database connection If you click on Configure button the Wonderware Historian access configuration dialog window will be opened Wonderware Historian access configuration x Select locaton of SOL Sener vath ww Histonan database This computes localhost OBemate computer Database name Runtime SOL Server suthentcabon User name Patsvwod adr CLET Data Aetneal Common Faameterz Select Quality Rule Defauh i Data Reineval Options Select Dala Retieval Mode 325 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd 1 First select the location of your WW Historian which you want to connect to This can be either a local computer or a remote one If it s a local PC you just have to keep the option This computer selected If you need to connect to a remote WW Historian server you have to select the Remote computer option Then click on browse button and select a remote PC where your WW Historian server is running 2 As soon as you have selected the location of your WW Historian
4. LA Apply Report Template Then Apply report template dialog window will be opened User can choose the desired report template and also configure applying settings as follows In Select report template edit box the report template has to be selected tdr files One can browse for such a template using browse button on the right from the combo box If the current loaded template has any entry ies in the tag dictionary thenthe Configure Tags List button will become enabled If the current template has no tag dictionary defined or it s originated from older versions then the Configure Tags List button will be disabled Apply report template Select report template C Program Files O0S Dream Report emplates veport energy 4 1 Apply report template using rules Apply report settings Apply export to Excel settings Replace existing repot objects Configure Tags List Add templates bo easing report obj cts Time replacement v Set this time period for all objects Define ime penad Absolute or relative penod definition Start of report penod Absolute Date Time 4 22 2011 w Days End of report period Absolute Date Time 6 23 2011 Days 24625 hrmmssback 1246 32 hhommss back Cancel 238 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd When user clicks on the Configure Tags Lisf button the Project Tag Dictionary window will
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6. fsebyect2 Hyperlink Task options SetURL to agen web hyperlink Delete Select Report to be loaded By default this option will be disabled In the Enable Hyperlink check box user can enable disable object as internal hyperlink v Combo box Select Report to generate will be filled with the list of all project reports including current report v Combo box Set Parameter will be filled with the list of all available defined internal project parameters IPPs 218 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd v Combo box Select Parameter Data Source will be filled with the list of all relevant objects defined in that report i e with the following object types Single Data Objects Compound Data Objects Expression Data Objects Combo boxes Date Time pickers When user will click on Ada button the selected parameter with the selected corresponding object will be added to the list NOTES e The list of parameters can t have the same parameter defined twice However it may have the same report object defined several times for multiple parameters e Report parameters using hyperlinks will work only for web report formats in Dream Report Web Portal Only WEB report formats Report Output File will be generated using hyperlinks PDF and Excel report formats will not be generated using hyperlinks For details on internal project parameters IPP configuration please refer to the Project Parameters section o
7. Dream Report Charts and Graphs Pie Graph Ocean Data Systems Ltd Pie Graph is an object that displays data in a pie chart The data can be either a data value a counter of logged values or a counter of logged alarms To add a pie chart to a report click the Pie Graph button on the Report Designer Studio Elements toolbar e Draw a rectangle where you would like to place the chart in the report workspace and the Pie Graph Definition dialog window will be opened Pie Graph Definition The upper combo box Chart Based On defines the kind of data that will be displayed in the chart You can select Pic Graph Chart Based On Yake Get Data From Dream Report History Select Data Item Data Source Process haen Name External Hetory Server _ Manual Entry Batch Data Tankt Apoly correction factor for all item values e Value to display a raw data item or a statistical value for a defined period AOF to be used mii i e Counter of Logged Values to display the number of yon un 7J times the selected data item was logged into the database and its value matched a specified value range Define Sme period e Alarm Count per Period to display the number of ci alarms during a specified period of time which matched 00S _Batch C Erato the selected alarm filters sen E The Get Data From radio buttons specify the kind of data source pr ci a Tale for the chart Dream Report History or External Histor
8. MyString Example 2 If you need to concatenate a numeric tag to a string the syntax will be i OPC Ana_01 _MyString the result will be 10 00 MyString e Extracting left or right part of a string is done using functions lefi lt argument gt lt num of chars gt or right The result will be the extracted string Example 1 Extract 3 left chars from a string 3 1415 The syntax will be left 3 1415 3 The result will be 3 1 Example 2 Extract 3 right chars from a string 3 1415 The syntax will be right 3 1415 3 The result will be 415 NOTE if you need to extract a part of value of statistical object or item value then item name or Statistical object name must be taken in quotation marks Example left f _sdo1 3 145 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd e Converting numeric value into a string can be done using a function tostring lt numeric expression gt it will calculate a numeric expression and convert the end result into a string Example tostring f _sdo1 f sdo2 it will calculate a sum of two numeric objects _ sdo1 and _sdo2 and then return the result as a string ToNumber Function in Expression Objects ToNumber is a ToString function which converts its argument to a number This function works as follows e or sign in front of a string are correctly handled Example ToNumber 123 or ToNumber 123 will give a result of 123 and 1
9. Pass parameters information Set Parameter Select Parameter Data Source Cyde 3 tp Fiow_data_time_i Ad Delete Parameter Name Parameter name Cycle 1 Humber Cyde 3 Timestamp By default this option will be disabled In the Enable Hyperlink check box user can enable disable object as internal hyperlink Combo box Select Report to generate will be filled with the list of all project reports including current report v Combo box Set Parameter will be filled with the list of all available defined internal project parameters IPPs v Combo box Select Parameter Data Source will be filled with the list of all relevant objects defined in that report i e with the following object types Single Data Objects Compound Data Objects Expression Data Objects Combo boxes Date Time pickers When user will click on Ado button the selected parameter with the selected corresponding object will be added to the list NOTES e The list of parameters can t have the same parameter defined twice However it may have the same report object defined several times for multiple parameters e Report parameters using hyperlinks will work only for web report formats in Dream Report Web Portal Only WEB report formats Report Output File will be generated using hyperlinks PDF and Excel report formats will not be generated using hyperlinks For details on internal project parameters IPP configuratio
10. Record Mode Record Mode Data Source On ltem Value Change MVE Tolerance ltem Mame L 2 Every time this value changes Dream Report will log values of all data items defined in that group NOTE Please note that only items from real time data sources can be used If you select a data item from external history server this option won t work e On Absolute Time option will record item values at an exact time specified in the list see example below Record Mode Record Mode 17 00 00 On Absolute time hi You can add as many time definitions as you need and when the PC clock reaches the time in the list values for all of items in the group will be logged to the database Lower section Record Period defines a schedule for the active logging period To add active period specify time FROM absolute time format time TO absolute time format check which days of a week this period will be active and click Add button to add a record to a list Each record may have its own weekly schedule If you select any record in the list and click on Modify button then the selected record will get current values from the edit boxes and check boxes Remove button will remove selected record from the list 97 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Item Group Definition Logging on Event The comprehensive logging mechanism of Dream Report allows data logging control based on a pre defined event If the Enable Record
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12. 123 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd NOTE This option will also be available in the Select Data Items multi tag selection window please see the pic below Select Data items Select Daia Source arac Them Filter Available Data tens Path tem Hare ay F ack Time Z Alarm_text A Batch ID A Counter F End_Time H Famiy iD A Motori F motor A Motor amp Priority Tarki F Tark2 E Tark3 E Tempi 2 Templ B Temp E Timestamp User x Display tag brows list captions All tags Favorite tag lst Manual Item Entry Add Manual bam Added Data Items OD C Batch Date Temp 1 ODEC Batch Data Temp2 OD8C Batch_Data Temp3 124 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd List of Dynamic Tokens Dream Report provides a list of dynamic tokens to display in a specific context Below you can find the list of dynamic token used in Dream Report with the definition of their functions List of Basic Dream Report Dynamic Tokens c This dynamic token is used in Step tables to give possibility to calculate data between columns and to present this data as an additional column i This dynamic token has the following format i lt ltem Names and can be used in 2 possible ways a To provide item name to the Advanced SQL condition b To give currently calculated value to any part of Dream Report which requests this value via Analytical driver i e Batch ID to the Report s fi
13. After having selected the report the desired time option time period and format for report generation click the Generate button and the report will be generated forcing all objects from the specified report to use time period defined here by the user NOTES e You can select one of these options PDF XLS PDF and XLS by clicking on the option that you need on Generate button and the report will be generated in the format you have chosen e f you want to use any of the following report target options Email Printer Excel for dynamic report generation they need to be enabled and configured in the Report File Format section of Report Settings in the Designer Studio Dynamic tag selection Dynamic tag selection in the Runtime Management Console allows to manually select the list of tags which will be used for specific report generation NOTE Dynamic tag selection can be applied only to Item Tables Automatic Statistical Tables ASTs and Charts If the Select List of Tags for Replacement check box is checked then the Dynamic Tags List control will appear please see the pic below 275 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Dynamic Generation Define time period Absokte or relative period definition Sd Stat of report period Absolute Date Time Date 7 27 2012 12 39 23 PM H MM SS End of period Absolute Date Time Date 8 2 2012 12 39 23 PM H MM SS If you click on the orowse button n
14. E SConfigureUsers System Discrete SDate System Integer E SDateString System Message EZ SDateTime System Real E SDay System Integer E SFalse System Discrete 617 tems SAccessLevel n Systern integer B SHistoricallogging Systern Discrete i For details on InTouch driver performance please see the InTouch Native driver section of this manual NOTES e The SuiteLink driver works only with real time tags After its configuration it will be automatically added to the list of real time drivers and will be available for selection when you need to define item group for logging data in the Dream Report Logger Studio e After SuiteLink driver configuration an itda file will be created in the Dream Report project folder e f you need to configure the same driver more than once then after having configured it the first time you ll just need to click in the Select Data Source Type field on any other driver and then go back to the driver that you need to configure 330 NY InTouch Historian Driver LGH files Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd InTouch historical values LGH files driver allows Dream Report to access InTouch internal proprietary history archive which is saved in LGH binary files and make reports directly out of that archive without the necessity of exporting data into an open database This driver allows connecting to either local or remote LGH historical archives To add this
15. Starting the Project command line In order to be able to start project from the command line the following command has to be run lt path to RTM gt rtm exe control startproject full project path Example C ODS Dream Report System RTM exe control startproject C ODS Dream Report Project Demo Demo drpj Backward Compatibility Command Formats For backward compatibility DRG also accepts old command formats generate exe lt report name gt f lt period gt generate exe lt report name gt a r lt start of period gt lt end of period gt List of accepted parameters lt report gt is the name of report to be generated f is a fixed period for report generation lt period gt is a period for report generation It can have the following values last day last n days last hour last n hours last week last n weeks last month and last n months Current day Current hour Current week Current month current quarter where n is a number from 1 to 500 a is absolute date and time mode lt Start of period gt defines the start date and time Its format is dd mm yy hh mm ss or dd mm yy hh mm ss lt end of period gt defines the end date and time Its format is dd mm yy hh mm ss or dd mm yy hh mm ss r is relative date and time mode lt start of period gt defines the start date and time Its format is dd hh mm ss Where dd h
16. f rate of change is more faster than expected and the option Rate of change is not more than expected is enabled the process will fail and if this option is unchecked the process will succeed e Exclude failure from calculated stability period option influences only calculation of duration of Stability period and no other influence This option controls the situation when during the stability period one or multiple points will exit from the Stability bandwidth and then return back into the stability corridor If this option is enabled then the time period when one or multiple values will be out of range will be excluded from the calculated duration of Stability If this option is not checked the full stability period will be taken for duration calculation Example The stability period started at 10 00 and finished at 11 00 During this period one data item exited from the stability bandwidth at 10 10 and then returned back into the stability corridor at 10 30 If this option is enabled the duration will be 40 min and if it will be unchecked the duration will be 1 hour e Ignore rate of change before stability Ignore rate of change after stability options define if rate of change should be considered for the process validation Stability result function If any of those check boxes will be checked the rate of change will be ignored during calculation of the Stability result function e ignore out of the range item s o
17. 361 365 365 366 368 375 381 382 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd General Information Dream Report Overview Dream Report is out of the box Reporting software for the Automation Market which gt Directly collects alarms and raw data from multiple heterogeneous data sources such as I O PLC RTU SCADA DCS MES etc gt Leverages all archives from other solutions and applications such as SCADA Historians etc gt Aggregates and logs to any standard database all alarms and the data collected facilitating information integration within manufacturing and enterprise applications gt Integrates in one user friendly environment all tools to easily create and generate automated reports gt Enables print archive email and reports publishing over the Web automatically gt Is intuitive requiring only one day training and assimilation gt Compatible with any application in all vertical markets gt Runs ina fully secured multilingual environment gt Provides an extra tool Dream Report Project Creating Wizard that helps to create a turnkey simple project which can be later edited and developed in the Dream Report Studio To learn how to configure data logging please refer to the Logger Studio section To learn more about database configuration and maintenance please refer to the Database Configuration section To learn more about report graphical design please refer to the Designer Studio section To
18. Application Server local or remote WW Historian InTouch historical values LGH files InTouch Native SuiteLink Protocol over TCP IP real time values WWALM Historical Alarms Aspentech folder will display only one entry Aspen IP 21 database access Citect folder will display Citect real time values e Citect real time alarms e Citect historical values e Citect historical alarms o gt o gt L2 2 2 2 hS 2S SCS S SCS S SCS S N oe oe oe 282 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Exactly the same list will be displayed for folders Wizcon Siemens inside display WinCC Afcon inside display P CIM Echelon inside display iLon SmartServer Emerson inside display OPC DeltaV Loytec folder will have one entry LWEB 801 database access Mitsubishi folder will have one entry Mitsubishi real time values Arc Informatique folder will display PcVue HDS Items PcVue HDS Alarms PcVue real time values using Web Services PcVue real time alarms using Web Services PcVue historical values using Web Services PcVue historical alarms using Web Services PcVue real time values using OPC Techno Trade folder will have two entries TView historical values TView historical alarms Intellution folder will display iFix Native real time values iFix Native real time alarms iFix Native historical values iFix Native historica
19. Dala Archming Monthy report ell be genersbed once per month Baich Definition Yearly report wi be generated once per year Hepors Hame automatically generated Connectnty Newer report wi not be generated by schedule ft val be generated on event o manualy a ai r j dl Sel Time Schedule 00 00AM Event Time Period Page Design Select tags Select Objects Set Time Tan AM The Dream Report automatic report generation schedule has 4 options Daily report option enables a user to define a very flexible schedule of report generation one or more times during one specific day or several days of the week please see the pic above For this create a list of schedule records defining when each report will be generated The schedule record includes the time hh mm ss and the days of the week Each scheduler record may contain its own set of days of the week The report will be generated every day at each defined time which is enabled in the schedule To add a record enter the desired time in the Set Time edit box in the format hh mm ss select the desired days of the week and click the Add button The new scheduler record will be added to the scheduler list To delete a scheduler record select a record to be deleted and click the Remove button The selected record will be deleted To modify an existing scheduler record select the record to be modified the day of the week The Set Ti
20. E want to print my report heme se Gt In this window users will find information about the possible report formats the rules of how file names for an output file will be generated and define how to configure report output settings i e what format the report will be generated in If a user checks want to print my report check box the Configure button will become enabled Click on it and the Printer Configuration window will be opened 35 yy Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Pu i Coni sti E Selec Pinde Sounce CI Excel PDF adobe Acrobat Priman preter best OOwWOOOOOOO00O0 Pinte name Adobe PDF uo Brother HL A0S0 teret on Ods 005 Aubo Canon MPG1O seres Fimer on HOMESER Auto binosi SPS Document witer on WDF S2 Fate Micnosalt Office Document image bine Microsoft Difice Lo Meeting 2007 Documerd w Microsalt PS Chocunerd Wiber PIFI Samturg CLA 70 Seres Serd To Orehote 2007 Snagh 10 Print report on default printer ox cma Backup porter ist Printer rnama Adobe PDF Aao Brother HL 2060 sees on Oce 005 Auto Canon MP6 0 omes Portes on HOMESER Auto Whoo SS Document whiter on wFs Fas Microsolt Other Diocumant limage Waber Microsoft Oihce Loe Meeting 2007 Document w Micasa APS Documernd Winter POF S95 S emeung O31 70 Senet Send To Orehcte 2007 Snagi 10 m o a o o o Oo o E o m T Select one or several printers
21. History of remote tags or remote alarms can be accessed only if it is stored in the local Wizcon project due to the limitation of Wizcon itself 347 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Simulation Drivers Simulation Driver enables to design report templates without connection to the real data servers Users can define different virtual data sources and variables according to their needs The Simulation Driver set includes Simulation Data Driver Simulation Driver real time historical values and Simulation Alarm Driver Simulation Driver real time historical alarms To configure Simulation Driver first open the Communication Configuration Wizard dialog window Communication Configuration Wizard Select Dala Source T ype Configure Dies for Selected Source Cretined Criwers List a Driver Loaiza H i invet Logucel Hame A Analjlical resme values OB abech hishoneal values Driver Logical Name E l E DreamAeparl web manual divert dud BB Energy F aaj lir it E Process Simula i n Diver l i Configure aiaia M Foces Simulation Dives reaime values BB Procees_Setpoint A Simulation Dives real time alain scans A Simulation Dive heetotical values scabs Simulation Dies helecical alame a Np om eer 4 Aspertech 4 Open communication protocols 4 Citect 4 Siemerc 4 Eursthem 4 Lowtec Eile hity ihihi Data Sours Denciptior oe Select Simulation Data Driver Simulation Drive
22. If the value filter is empty and doesn t contain any value range the full value range i e all values will be counted Duration in the interval hours calculates the total time period when the values were within the specified value range and returns the result in the format HH MM SS When this statistical function is selected a user will have to enter a value filter for the range of values The values entered are inclusive i e will both be included in the calculation Negative and floating point values are accepted however only numeric values can be entered This filter doesn t work with text or symbolic values Example If we calculate the Duration in interval between 12 00 and 14 00 with a value range of 10 20 where between 12 00 and 13 00 the value was 12 and between 13 00 and 14 00 the value was 22 then the value was only within the specified value range 1 hour 12 00 13 00 and the result will be 01 00 00 Counter a statistical function which is mainly used to count consumption water electricity consumption etc This function displays the difference between the last and the first value of the selected item during the specified period of time 131 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Example If the counter function is applied to an item which had values 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 then this Statistical function will return 60 which is 90 30 If the value counter has a maximum value after which the counter resets
23. NOTE A report cannot be set to have both generation options A report can be configured to be generated only according to a schedule or in the periodical cycle 75 Dream Report Generate Report on Event The Generate Report on Event dialog box configures an event based report generation The Enable Generation On Event check box enables disables event based report generation If a user enables Instance Generation check box he can configure report generation and define different generation rules on event for different report instances This box can be enabled only if report instances for this project have already been created Otherwise this box will be disabled For more details on how to create virtual report instances please see Virtual Report Instances section When the Instance Generation check box is enabled select data source data item event condition and enter a condition value The Select data source combo box will be filled with a list of all available sources After selecting a data source the combo box Select Data Item will be filed with a list of all available items from the selected data source The Condition value can be any number in the range from 65535 00 to 65535 00 The symbol must be used as the decimal separator Report Settings Project Reports List Alarm Tables Austomatic Statistica Tat BSacteriolooical Report Sa Graphs Batch Info Report Batch Trend Charts Ost
24. To add this object click on the SQL Query Table button on the Report Designer Studio Elements toolbar I Using the Free SQL Table you can specify any query and visualize the result as a table with predefined parameters To define a Free SQL Table select the DSN for the database and write an SQL query The SQL Table also supports the command SELECT In this case draw a table in the Designer Studio as one single column and then during report generation it will automatically expand to the right where the number of columns will correspond to the number of the columns in the database table The width of each column will be equal to the width of the table you have drawn in the Designer Studio If the width of the SQL Table at report generation time is too wide it will be truncated Any valid SQL commands can be specified in the SQL Query edit box If you need to use dynamic values in your SQL condition based on your statistical calculations you can add any valid object name in the format f lt field name gt which can be either a Single data object a Compound object or an Expression object In this case during report generation the value of the specified object will be calculated and the result will replace the f lt field names in the query For details please see List of Dynamic Tokens section In the Appearance section you can define the formatting for your table such as the maximum number of columns sorting if not
25. and aK cance Item Name will be filled with relevant tag information The column Description will be empty User can click or double click into the Description column and the field will be opened for inserting or editing a text with the logical description of this tag All the list of source tag names and their descriptions will be saved inside the report template file When saving the report template the tag dictionary will save ONLY tag descriptions and their reference associations with statistical objects in the template Data sources and tag names will not be saved in the template To apply report template to an existing report right click on the report in the report list and select menu Apply Report template 237 Dream Report Logger Studio Report Designer Studio List of Reports H E Energy Report examples OEE Performance and Main p Report Settings Tag Dictionary Virtual Report Instances Apply Fage Template Apply Report Template Save As Page Template Save As Report Template lak Charts Copy Report To Folder ile Bars Ocean Data Systems Ltd You can also click on the command button Report Template on the Home ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar in the Report Designer Studio see pic below AS ye ae p Home 3 Connectivity Project Web 3 Copy Object ZA Paste Object 4 Cut Clipboard Quick Lau A g Driver e Report Page Insert
26. d mM IMY H M S corresponds to 12 09 2007 10 11 29 RY Yom Yd YH M S corresponds to 2007 09 13 23 12 30 d mM y YH M S corresponds to 12 09 07 10 11 29 V M d l M S Yp corresponds to 2007 09 13 11 59 01 PM SYH M S d Y b Y Y where b corresponds to the first three letters of the month 11 59 01 11 SEP 2007 Dream Report CSV driver handles 4 possible options with milliseconds available in CSV file 1 Milliseconds since 01 January 1970 2 Seconds and milliseconds separated by delimiter 1196858560 968 3 Standard Date amp Time format with milliseconds 12 09 2007 10 11 29 493 4 Milliseconds in a separate column NOTE For the last two cases users have to select Custom Time format and adjust time format manually See examples how to configure CSV configuration when milliseconds exist in CSV files Examples e d mM WY H M S Z corresponds to 12 09 2007 10 11 29 493 e d YmM IMY H M S Z corresponds to 12 09 2007 10 11 29 and 493 Here user also have to specify column name where milliseconds are located please see the picture of this section above UTC time If timestamps in CSV files are defined as UTC user will have to select UTC Time Format check box please see the picture above Data Items CSV Text Columns Mapping In the File Access Configuration section please specify file structure There are three options available Simple Databa
27. delimiter due Logging Alarms As soon as the alarms have been defined a user should configure the conditions for recording these alarms into the Dream Report database To do this a user should 1 Open the Dream Report Logger Studio and either click on the command button Add Alarm Group on the Connectivity ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar in the Dream Report Logger Studio menu or right click on Add alarm group in the left bottom part of the Logger Studio and select Add alarm group from the context menu The Alarm Group Definition dialog box will be opened 2 In the Alarm Filter Manager section click on Define Alarm Filter button in the General dialog box please configure the priority filter from which alarms will be included into the group select Alarms in CSV files driver as the source driver For details on how to define an alarm group please go to the Alarm Group Definition section 301 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd 4 Define alarm logging schedule for details please go to the Alarm Logging Schedule and Log Alarms on Event sections 5 As soon as the alarm group has been added to the Logger studio the alarms will be logged into the Dream Report database on the conditions defined Transferring CSV Text based project to another computer Transfer of the Dream Report project which is based on CSV Text converter has to be done in 3 simple steps 1 Copy Dream Report project to the destination computer 2 C
28. eines by data tem will be used later to recognize and distinguish batches OsaRemfFoBshio ia curce process loops So in order to track batches define the Orem Report History Gaga source for batch IDs OExtemal History Server item Batch_Data Temp Dream Report batch definitions allow tracking batch IDs by i Defined in external database select Data Location a tag from by logging batch information into internal Dream A S on Report history or retrieving them from an external database Aenea in different formats Select DSN Field With Batch ID Batch in Dream Report can be defined in 2 ways according H5 nms i ek With hs Time to the way batch information is stored Field With Batch Start Time 3 If the table where batch information is stored includes columns corresponding to Batch ID Batch eS ee Start Time and Batch End Time then select the Defined in external database option Select Golden Batch ID Use Select DSN to select the database where s batch information is stored If the DSN doesn t exist create it and then continue the batch definition If the DSN is protected with a login and OK Cancel password then enter the login and password in the R User name and Password text boxes Click on the Connect button and Batch Manager will connect to your database via the selected DSN 148 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd After connecting to a database in the section Select Data Locati
29. or Golden batch it will NOT be replaced and will stay in addition to all dynamic lines Time definitions and all other settings will have no change ONLY data items will be dynamically replaced Automatic Statistical Table Automatic Statistical Table will take all statistical functions defined in the table and apply it for all items supplied by preprocessor All settings SQC AVC from the first item in the table will be used Also the data source from the first item will be used as the right one Item Tables In Item tables all originally defined items will be replaced by the new ones The data source will remain the same If an Item table contains several data sources then the one from the first data item will be considered as the correct one 86 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Report Settings Macros Project Reports List General This option enables users to define and attach a list Mare Tables a None Fomant i AAomatic Statistica Tat of macros to each report separately and run it Ractertslocieal Resort Report Tene Definition when the report is generated or on event ate A Generate Repot On Evert A macro can be one of two types an SQL macro or Batch Trend Report Fle Format a shell command command line aera Repon Preprocessor Osta Tables Macros Demo Batch Report To add a macro to a list Energy Effidency Repor ecto neme SQL Marro i i Equioment avadabdity re 1 Specify a unique logical M
30. Batch Start Time and Batch End Time will have time resolution of 1 second msec will be ignored After the data source and data item are selected the batch definition is completed You can click the OK button and when you define any object time period as Batch and select that batch definition during report generation Dream Report will automatically go to the database analyze the values of a tag defined for the batch recognize the start and end times of the batch and will then apply those times to the object Once batch definition is completed click OK and continue designing your project During report generation Dream Report will automatically go to the database analyze the values of a tag defined for the batch recognize the start and end times of the batch and will then apply those times to the object If you add a phase for a batch it will operate the same way as a batch As mentioned before a phase is used in Dream Report to make the project configuration easier to understand Golden batch In the Select Golden Batch ID combo box in the bottom part of the Batch Definition dialog window please enter the ID of the golden batch for the data comparison To browse for a specific batch ID from the database click on the browse button select the time period to search all available batch IDs from Batch IDs in time range or select All batch IDs Then the combo box Select Golden Batch ID will be automatically populated with all av
31. Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Ocean Data Systems Ltd User Documentation Dream Report Version 4 5 Data Analysis and Reporting for Automation http dreamreport net Copyright All rights reserved Ocean Data Systems Ltd Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Table of Contents 1 General Information 6 Dream Report Overview 6 System Requirements 7 Dream Report Installation Tips 9 Installation of Dream Report 9 Uninstall or Modify Installation 11 Project Upgrade Procedure 13 Licensing and Software Protection 16 2 Project Wizard 18 General 18 Project Name 22 Connectivity 23 Data Archiving 25 Batch Definition 28 Report Configuration 32 Name 32 Schedule 32 Event 34 Distribution J5 Time Period 36 Page layout design 39 Tag Selection 41 Object Selection 42 3 Project Settings 45 General 45 Database Configuration 47 Web Configuration 50 Folder Selection 52 Log File Settings 53 Hot Backup Redundancy Configuration 54 Localization 55 Project Parameters 57 User Management 59 User Management General 59 User Group Authorization 63 Version Control 65 4 Report Settings 67 General 67 Report Name Format 72 Generation Time Definition 74 Generate Report on Event 76 Report Output Format yi Excel Reports 78 Email Configuration 81 Printer Selection 83 Report Pre processor 84 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Macros 87 User Authorization 88 Advanced PDF Security 89 5 Logger Configuration
32. HT TPS This option defines if HTTP or secure HTTP HT TPS will be used for data transfer Username Username for login to PcVue server Password Password for PcVue server connection Update Rate This option specifies time period for cyclical check of values and alarm updates Though PcVue web services driver doesn t support unsolicited mode of data acquisition all data updates are not received automatically but are checked periodically with rate defined in this option Use alternative language option defines whether primary or secondary language will be used for tag description and other text data properties Use variable title This option enables disables the use of the name for the alarm updates When all configuration is properly set a user can test connection with a server by clicking on Test Connection button in the bottom part of the Driver Configuration window PcVue historical values using Web services PcVue historical alarms using Web services driver configuration lf PcVue historical values using Web services or PcVue historical alarms using Web services communication driver is selected then as soon as you click on Configure button the following PcVue driver configuration dialog window will be opened 345 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Host address fs Proxy address fs Prom Port HTTPS Use alternative language _ Test Connectior In this window please specify e Host address The I
33. e Ifin the time unit combo box the Month s option is selected then in the combo box see the picture below you can select a day of month with numbers from 1 to31 when every selected number of months archiving operation will be performed Archive aged data every 1 month s al Every 3 ae Day e If in the time unit combo box the Year s option is selected then in two combo boxes see the picture below you can select a day of the month and month when every selected day of the month the archiving operation will be performed Archive aged data every 1 year s bd Every 10 hd Apri Folder where database archive files will be stored section enables to select a folder where database archive files will be located The default folder is lt Project database folders When clicking on the browse button the standard Browse for folder dialog window will be opened select a folder where database archives will be stored As soon as this folder has been defined user can open and change the folder accroding to his needs If the archive folder is changed Dream Report will not automatically copy all archive files existing in the previous folder to the new folder it will have to be done by the user Dream Report will only start looking for archive files folder during the next operation Manual operation section allows performing one of the following manual operations 1 trigger archive operation
34. select the type of the report objects you will need for your report data display 42 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Please select the report objects which you want to add to your report You can always add remove or modify any available reporting object afterwards using Designer Studio tools Add a Chart Add an Thee Table a Table of Raw Values Ad a Shatetical Takie Add a Step Table 2 ov 2 ev 2 oy oy e Add a Chart option enables to create a chart to display data value a counter of logged values or a counter of logged alarms e Add an Item Table a Table of Raw Values option enables to create a table that will display an array of values from one or more data items within a specified value range which were logged during the specified time period e Add a Statistical Table option enables to create a table that will display the performance of some Statistical functions for the selected tags during the defined time period e Adda Step Table option enables to create a table automatically with a predefined time for each row in the table NOTE The type of the selected dynamic object can be removed added modified in the Dream Report Designer studio after Project Wizard project creation is completed Click Next to go to the final step of project creation Click Back to go one step back to re configure or check project configuration Click Close to exit Project Wizard without any operation performed
35. tdr extension 236 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd By default report template files are saved in the Templates folder within the Dream Report installation directory When a user saves a report as report template the following Save Report Template window will be opened Save Aeport Template Set Path CPregram Fle 00S Dream Repani Termplates Aapa Oii Ince in T amgplabs Report Seting In the Set Path edit box user will have to select the desired report template tdr files by browsing for such a template using gooo browse button on the right from the combo lT ag Dicdionayp Excel Export Settings Gree Desorption io Tags Data Soue ltem Hame Depenpisce box ODBC hishoncal wakuss Query Templ ODBC histoncal sabes Queryi Tangs ODBC hishoncal wakas Uuel Tank z x a ODBC historical values Quen Medes Include in Template section contains 3 check 5 per ag boxes Report Settings Tags Dictionary 00c historical values Quel Motors ODBC historica wakas Query i Mate Excel Export Settings which will define which ODBC historical values Query Motor report information will be saved with the template If any of those check boxes are unchecked then this part of the report information will not be saved Tag dictionary The control list lags dictionary will be filled with all tags which are used in this report in Prtected Template various objects Columns Data Source
36. when connecting to the OPC server If no login and password is defined then the OPC browser and the client will be connecting to the server as usual in anonymous mode In the Select Server section select an OPC server to which you would like to connect In the Computer Name field specify the name of the PC where OPC server is running By default it is localhost which means a local PC If another PC in a network has to be specified click on Browse Network button and then select the needed computer name from a network You can refresh server list from the specified PC by clicking on the button Refresh Server Lisi It will get a list of OPC servers installed on the specified PC and update the list of servers in the combo box When the OPC server is selected click the button Test Connection to test communication between Dream Report OPC client and your OPC server This procedure of the OPC driver configuration will be the same both for OPC DA real time values and OPC HDA history data access drivers If you select OPC AE real time alarms driver and click on Configure button the following OPC driver configuration dialog box will be opened to configure OPC AE client 308 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Select OPC Server si OPC server secured access Man OPC Server Backup OPC Server Login admir Server requires single client connection Password ones Event mode Computer ame Slocalhost Brows
37. 5 Continue installation of Dream Report IIS Configuration in 64 Bit Operating Systems When using Dream Report with web portal on Windows Vista or on Windows 7 in 64 Bit Operating Systems certain manual configuration of the IIS Internet Information Services as described below has to be done The following configuration steps have to be done 1 Open IIS Internet Information Services Manager e f you are using Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 it can be opened using windows menu Start gt Administrative tools gt Internet Information Services IIS Manager e f you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7 it can be opened using windows menu Start gt Control Panel gt Administrative tools gt Internet Information Services IIS Manager 2 Select DefaultAppPool in the Application Pools of the Connections section please see the picture below 362 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd N Be Computes Management oc x m i i ir oa gt COSCO Appication Pooks Task Scheduler oy Application Pools gt aeiaaenae Thn page lets you view and manage the fet of application pooh on the server epication Pos Dii Apphcabon pools me essocisted eith worker processer conten one of more Appin ation Poot ashes eephrcetions end provide solebor among dMerent ppc evers aa Famer Joi Pawa Group by A cp Nome NET Fram Managed Papel mace Dassen it Chasse Das aT 40 vad integrated AD ASP NET 40
38. In this case Step table will read values of a ranged tag ODBC Batch_Data Motor 1 as in the picture above and find time periods when the value of this ranged tag complies with the specified range Every such a time period found Start and End time will be used as a step Example Let s suppose that the tag Batch_Data Motor 1 has the following values in the duration of 1 hour 11 00 11 10 If Full range option is defined with the range of From 9 To 19 then the step table will have 2 steps for that period 11 00 11 20 and 11 40 11 59 e Half empty value range means that one of the value range parameters From or To is empty If From is empty and To has value this will mean the following condition ranged tag lt To If To is empty and From has a value this will mean the following condition raged tag gt From In this case Step table will read values of a ranged tag ODBC Batch_Data Motor 1 and find time periods when the value of this ranged tag complies with the specified range condition Every such a time period found will be used as a step Example Let s suppose that the tag Batch_Data Motor 1 has the following values in the duration of 1 hour 11 00 11 10 o lf Half empty value range option is defined with the range of From To 20 then the step table will have 2 steps for that period 11 00 11 20 and 11 40 11 59 178 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems
39. NOTE If RMC is minimized then it will hide in the system tray If a user wants to maximize it he can double click on the RMC icon in the system tray or right click it in the system tray then the Open RMC context menu will be started If the currently running project was modified press the Reload Project button to reload the project and start using the updated project Reloading a project has the same effect as restarting the runtime manager the previous project will be completely closed and opened again NOTE If when the runtime is loaded the following message box will pop up please see the pic below user will need to install NET Framework 3 5 SP1 Fatal Error x Can not load language Could not load file or assembly System EnterpriseServices Version 2 0 0 0 Culture neutral PubicKeyToken bO3Si7 M1450333 or one of its dependencies The system cannot find the file specified When the Runtime Management Console RMC is launched the following dialog window will be opened 262 NY Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Runtime Management Console Local w Connect Reports Queue E805 bream BeportiProjectDemo bemo Start Reload 7 Stabe Project amp Running Available Reports Raportis Queue B Batch reports 1 Bst nfo Report 1 Cemo Batch Report Energy Seaport examples 1 Energy Effioency Report Trmestameg Report name ee Ge Report Energy In Progr 11 21 45 Batc
40. Report Settings Project Reports List Alarm Tables Automatic Statistica Tat BSacteriolooical Report Sa Graphs Batch Info Report Batch Trend Charts Osta Tables Demo Batch Report Energy Effoency Repor Equipment avalahdity re Puorde Monthly Report GW Monthly Operating F Inccators Monthly Operating Repo Ae Graphs Report Energy Report Maintenance Report Production Report Refinery Report Water Setpomt Anslyas Singe objects SQL Tables Step Tades Tu bidty Report Web Trend Widgets Ocean Data Systems Ltd Report Name Format Repat Time Defintion Generate Repot On Event Report File Format Repon Preprocessor User Authonzation List of defined users Access Authorized User Loon Select A Unealeact Al The List of defined users displayed in this section is a global project list defined in the Authorization dialog window and is described in details in the User Management section If you delete any user from the project List of Users and Groups in the Authorization dialog window of the User Management dialog box then it will be automatically removed from the List of defined users in the User Authorization section described here If you add a new user to the global project List of Users and Groups it will be automatically added to the List of defined users in the User Authorization section described here and will be unselected All users are unselected unauthorized by default for all repor
41. Timestamp Tank Name Tank3Z 1500 00 1170 00 1395 00 1500 00 1465 00 1425 00 1200 00 Walues 02 07 07 02 07 07 02 07 07 02 07 07 02 07 07 02 07 07 02 07 07 02 07 07 02 07 07 02 07 07 02 07 07 02 07 07 02 07 07 02 07 07 02 07 07 02 07 07 16 00 00 16 00 00 16 00 00 17 00 00 17 00 00 17 00 00 16 00 00 16 00 00 16 00 00 15 00 00 15 00 00 15 00 00 14 00 00 14 00 00 14 00 00 13 00 00 Tank3 Tank2 Tanki Tank3 Tank2 Tanki Tanki Tank2 Tank3 Tank Tanki Tanks Tank2 Tanki Tank3 Tank3 1500 00 30 00 150 00 1176 00 750 00 1485 00 1470 00 500 00 1395 00 1050 00 1455 00 1500 00 1200 00 1440 00 1485 00 1425 00 Ocean Data Systems Ltd 171 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Free Table Free Table is an object that combines different static and dynamic statistical objects into a table To add a free table to the project click the Free Table button on the Report Designer Studio Elements toolbar zy Mark in the workspace the rectangle where desired data will be displayed The following dialog box will be opened Free Table Definition i Rows and Columns Definition Number of Columns js wl Number of A ows Enter the number of rows and columns for the table The maximum size is 50 rows and 50 columns When a free table is added to the project it can be filled with the following types of eaea Static text Date and Time Date Time Object Single Da
42. and which match the selected alarm filter If Counter of logged alarms is selected click on Filter and select an alarm filter from the dialog window Alarm Filter Manager which is described in the Alarm Filter section Select Statistical Function Counter of alarms Filter alarm Direct SQL Query e SQL Query performs a predefined SQL query on the selected database If SQL Query is selected click on Define SQL Query In this case the result will be the result of the query i e the history type source item and time period will not be applied The following dialog will be opened SOL Query definition x ODEC Database Source Process Add Login Password admin TETN Erter SOL Query SELECT f temp1 FROM Batch_Data WHERE Motor 1 1 Select data abject templ ad OK Cancel When user selects an existing data object in the same report from the combo box just below the Enter SQL Query edit box and clicks on the Add button the selected field will be added to the SQL condition in the format of f lt Field Names For details please see List of Dynamic Tokens section For each SQL query in the Single Data Object you can specify a separate DSN to any database For details on how to define DSN please see the DSN Manager section of this manual Any standard SQL query can be specified but only the first row in the result set will be displayed The value can be of any type If received value type is not numeric
43. at the time of the report generation it has valid start time and end time e Current batch means batch ID which is being processed at present i e at the time of the report generation it has a valid start time and no end time yet e Absolute batch ID will enable user to enter any specific absolute batch ID and their start and end time will be considered as the time period for that statistical object e Golden batch will use start and end time of the golden batch ID defined in the selected batch definition in the batch configuration dialog window 165 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd The Absolute batch ID and the Golden batch options are similar The difference between them is that the Golden batch is defined once per reporting project Then since the user has defined the Golden batch ID once in the batch definition window then it will be used for all the reporting objects throughout the entire project If the user changes it it will be automatically applied to all reporting objects as well The Absolute batch ID is applied to one specific reporting object and will not affect any other objects If the user wants to modify the absolute batch ID it will have to go through every reporting objects where the absolute batch ID is used and to change each of them Example Last 2 batches will mean 2 last batches which have been completed at the time of generation but not including the one which is in process now The current 2 bat
44. can specify the font style font color and background color for the legend To use a transparent background for the legend open the background color palette and select No color This option only applies when the Display Legena check box is enabled Values when this radio button is selected you can specify the font type and size for slice values You can also select text alignment font style font color and background color for the value text This option only applies when the Display Value check box is enabled Percentage when this radio button is selected you can specify the font type and size for slice percentages You can also select the text alignment font style font color and background color for percentage text This option only applies when the Display Percentage check box is enabled 195 N The Select unit to add to result defines which engineering unit to display after the decimal point in slice values This option makes sense only when the Display Value check box is selected Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Precision of result after decimal point defines how many digits after the decimal point will be displayed This option can only be applied when the Display Value check box is selected The Advanced SQL Condition section is described in details in the Advanced SQL Condition section Example of Pie Graph ima i iy te A AS a fia L o 196 Dream Report Bar Graph Ocea
45. ccccccccceseccceseccseueccsensessensessensess 236 PE e Aen ee meee E O A E E ener 48 Timestamp FOIA serranas ARARE 197 Timestamp of first value viscezcacscoccnieccauaeliecaediieaedecened 129 Timestamp of last value cccccssccseseccsessecsensessensess 129 Timestamp OF MaximuM assessesrid 129 Timestamp OF FMDV wccvssaceiscncntaivendetawatandawanduavaienncs 129 timestamp FESOIULION 1cccccesecceseccceseccsensessensessensens 45 10 2 62 E 2 ee ene nee nen Renee nr eee eee 97 Ea EE E EAEE ene EE eens E ete ET 115 A E ae eeoeaeencesetees eoeaeaasestes 350 TAY OAS EAN T E E te 160 TSO A OF sete cent seater sic O ee 310 U UHH History files inca tcvancenczonceseeanth eetentatiecadt 333 336 CO N eare E E EE eesaaceetateleet 10 oe geese EAN PEA E E eetieae 151 Update database aiccseciecasceavnd dxeevledantlenteeestenvececteavneees 252 O 0 E E E T 10 DA E E AE AEE E E E ET 53 Use GMT UNG soverre ennn annen Ree mee eee 45 Index Use local time wcesice ence cnpnns cadens sheademucngectevoneedepooninassoenes 45 Use Original time P riOd 1 ccccccsssssssssecennsaessssees 271 Use particular template fil cccccccsessccsessecsensessnees 78 Use query directly seinisciustiiariainitenandiemoaaiviceninuneaian 184 User AUthOriZation ccccccccccssecccssvesensnesensnssensnesessnanes 57 User MANAQSINIOIM viicnsnists tcnsuaustiubiatedinawarabeersnvaimesuathin 57 User name ou ceeccccseccccsnseccsseecsnseenseseetsneeenseasensnas
46. current value status and timestamp will be displayed i e you will see the logging status details but you won t be able to observe and control the process of data logging as with Start Monitoring option By default when Logger Studio is opened both options will be disabled NOTE By clicking on the DR Main Button in the Dream Report Logger Studio users can perform only some of the operations enabled in the DR Logger Studio with projects and reports such as e open any existing project e save the current project e exit the Studio with the current project opened Projects Opened Recently Hew Report 1 Froduction droj fay Open Project 2 C1 ODS energy energy drpj Save Project 3 Production_Users drpj 4 ODS Bemo Demo drpj I Save Project As F Print Exit 91 NY Communication Driver Definition Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd To connect to any data source and acquire live data alarms or access its history a user has to select an appropriate communication driver Each communication driver is configured via Communication Configuration Wizard dialog box which can be opened either from the Logger Studio or from the Report Designer Studio menu Click on the command button Driver Configuration either on the Connectivity ribbon icon or on the Driver Configuration button also located on the left vertical toolbar see picture below D Cognect
47. during report generation the selected combo box has the value s selected the report will be generated with original tags replaced by the web combo box selection either by other tags tag set selected in a web combo box object or by virtual report instance s o If Select to generate by Batch option is enabled then the Get Batch From combo box below will be filled with the list of all web combo box objects which have the Batch ID Lis function If in real time in a web report the selected web combo box object has no selected value the report will be generated without any dynamic replacement If during report generation the selected combo box has the value s selected the report will be generated for the selected batch ID For details of the web combo box object functions please see Combo Box section of this manual 229 NY e f Generate report action is selected user will have to select a report and report instance which will be generated please see the picture below Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Select Action Generate Report Action Parameters List of Reports Production _Report Make Dynamic Tag Replacement Get Tag List From E Select to generate by Batch Get Batch From Get Batch Definition From Dialog has 2 additional options for report generation Make Dynamic Tag Replacement and or Select to generate by Batch By default both check boxes will be disabled o If Make Dynamic Ta
48. f External History Server Faxed Period will be selected the Select NE week s Data Source combo box will Start Date and Time Durston Day Time contain a list of history na aaa Feiner eae access drivers defined in the project Jopearance In the Select Data Source and z ae Available Data Items combo boxes select the source and item from which Dream Report will calculate values and add them to the list Data source name and data item name of the selected tags will appear in the Selected List table When you have selected a data item tag choose the statistical functions you will need to perform for the textual output of the report result The list of all available statistical functions for the AST calculations is the same as for the Single Data Object calculations e Last value e Maximum value e Minimum value e Sum value e Integral value e Average value e Weighted Average e Duration e Counters 174 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd For detailed information about these statistical functions please go to the Single Data Object section Apply correction factor for all item values enables adding simple expression to an automatic statistical table If a user needs to display automatic statistical table on item s with the correction factor then first all values of the selected item s will be re calculated applying correction factor and then the automatic statistical table will display re calculate
49. from that range it will change its color back to the original one User can define one or multiple value range definitions Using tags to define limit range for Advanced Visualization Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Values for advanced visualization can be taken dynamically from the real time tag values To do so select tag names instead of values for From or and To edit boxes If you double click on From or To edit box the tag selection dialog box will be opened enabling selection of a tag from any real time data source When generating report the chart object will read the real time value of the selected tag and then use this value to define limit range for advanced visualization The Advanced SQL Condition section is described in details in the Advanced SQL Condition section 208 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Indicator Indicator object is an object that displays calculated data in the new standard representation way according to the latest energy reporting standards An indicator object will calculate the value according to the defined function or calculation grade the result according to the preset grade of value ranges and display the result with the grade mark To add an indicator object to a report click on the ndicator button on the Report Designer studio Elements toolbar As soon as user clicks on the button and marks the area on the report workspace the Indicator Object Definition dialog window
50. it can be configured as well Specify the Maximum value which the counter will reach before resetting and also specify the Start value i e the value from which the counter starts to count after reset e g from O or from 1 Select Statistical Function Counter Stat 000 Max 000 Example If you define a counter with a maximum of 1000 and a start value of 1 and your data has values 800 900 100 200 then the result will be 399 which is 1000 800 200 1 NOTE In order to avoid any mix up due to 0 s at the start of Wizcon application a user should write 1 in Start and Max combo boxes Mean Kinetic Temperature MKT this function performs a complex calculation with an array of temperature measurements calculating the time interval for each temperature and brings the array to the equivalent of one single temperature value during the period Example If the diary factory has produced milk which was stored 1 hour at a temperature of 5C then it was in a truck 1 hour at a temperature of 15C and then it was in a shop for 10 hours at a temperature 3C the MKT calculation will calculate the equivalent of storing the milk as at 6 7C for the entire period 12 hours This example is theoretical and is provided only as an example the result is not properly calculated using the complete set of input parameters Advanced Mean Kinetic Temperature calculation enhances precision of the calculated result and provides the calculatio
51. it will be displayed as a string IMPORTANT NOTES e When using SQL query in a Single Data Object and recording its values using analytical driver the analytical item group in the data logger should be configured with a periodical record rate Each and not On Change or On Update this is a limitation within the logger 138 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd e When using an MS Access database and column names or table names starting with _ or other non alphanumeric character enclose the name with square brackets e g MyTable or MyColumn This is not required for SQL Server databases 139 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Pulse Analysis Functions e Number of Pulses calculates and returns the counter of pulses during a specified period of time If a user selects this statistical function for the report then he will have to select from the Pulse type combo box one of the options for the type of pulse wave to be considered positive i e the upper pulse wave or negative i e the lower pulse wave and the value for this pulse wave from the Value Entry Value edit box this edit box can accept double values whole and decimal Select Statistical Function Number of Pulses Value Pulse Type For pulse explanation and its detection display please see the picture below A pulse is counted only when the value crosses the Entry value line A positive pulse is coun
52. it will have no influence on a hyperlink definition To edit hyperlink user will have to select that text object and click on the Hyperlink button or select Hyperlink from the right click context menu please see the pic below ann eee PRODUCTION i 2 tS Ss Cut B Copy Object rn 7 Copy Object Properties Faste Object Properties Hyperlink c my o oe a E m z To remove hyperlink from the text object select Delete from the right click Dream Report context menu Dream Report Context right click Menu for the text object has 6 entries Cut Copy Object Copy Object Properties Paste Object Properties Hyperlink Delete Combo Box Combo Box is a dynamic interactive object which enables users to select values from a predefined list and is available ONLY in WEB reports please also see Manual Data Entry section The Combo box object will be visible only in web reports and will not be displayed in PDF Excel reports To add this object click on the command button Combo Box on the Web Elements ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar in the Dream Report Designer Studio menu see pic below 1 Home Connectivity Project Web Elements 368 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Draw a rectangle in the workspace where the output data will be displayed The following Combo Box Configuration dialog box will be opened Combo Box Configuration w bject name Coes Foal Va
53. not affect design of that report NOTE 2 Page template files are created with ptdr extension By default page template files are saved in the Templates folder within the Dream Report installation directory Click Next to go to the Final step of project creation Click Back to go one step back to re configure or check project configuration Click Close to exit Project Wizard without any operation performed Tag Selection This step of the project creation enables a user to select tags that will be applied to all reporting objects defined in the next section Object Selection of the Project Wizard 41 a gt In the Reports Tag Selection window please see pic below select tags items to be applied to the report objects Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Project Name ae Connectivity it _ DR History JE r Data Archiving F C Externa Hiton Server o Select Tage Please select tags which you want to add to your report objacts Batch Definition 2 vy ey 2 ew 2 The radio buttons Dream Report History and External History Server define whether historical data will be taken from the Dream Report history or directly from the history of an external server using the history driver for that server The Select tags button will open a new dialog box Select Data Items containing the complete list of all data items from the selected drivers User will be able to add or remove items from the entire
54. ounce Defined Dawes Lin r nisma a r lafonderveans Diren Lia Hare E E Aripnhect Drier Logical Hame BB Anayics F Open communacation piap Ada E OEC Airra D Chet i i i E Siemen B Ein iarr Eurothem E E Fema k m aiok urg hk Hoka walues n Aene or UH dg H Loe Piisubirhi b a Femur a m F Dabi Soube Cepcpon Hajira s m Aa cn UHH babei Canai UHH DB historical messages values driver This driver enables having direct and automatic access to the data imported from UHH archives and making reports out of that If a user has selected either UHH DB historical messages driver or UHH DB historical values driver in the the Eurotherm folder of the Select Data Source Type section of the Communication Configuration Wizard and clicks on the button Configure the following Eurotherm Connection to UHH database driver configuration dialog window will be opened Connection to UHH database x Select location of SOL Server with UHH database Connect using DSN Local SOL Server database Remote SOL Server database vee Login sis 336 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd In this window user can select the location of the database which has to be accessed User can configure connection to UHH database either by using DSN Connect using DSN or using the SQL Server database locally Local SQL Server database or remotely Remote SQL Server database If Connect using DSN radio button is selected
55. please see the picture above then when user clicks on the browse button the DSN Manager window will be opened where user will be able to pick up or configure the DSN needed For details please see the DSN Manager section of this manual If either Local SQL Server database or Remote SQL Server database radio button is selected user will need to configure the SQL Server database parameters and details please see the picture below Connection to UHH database x Select location of SQL Server with UHH database Connect using DSN Local SQL Server database Remote SOL Server database aes Login Password SOL Server database connecton atinibutes SOL Server instance name Database name UhhDataStorage Lox cancel _Testeconnect The Test Connect button will try to establish communication to the selected UHH database UHH DB batch monitor driver This driver can periodically query UHH database detect start of a new batch or end of currently running batch and assign a corresponding pre defined value to the logical data point according to the event type e g value 0 if a new batch is started and value 1 if the actual batch is ended 337 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd If a user has selected the UHH DB batch monitor driver from the Eurotherm folder in the Select Data Source Type section of the Communication Configuration Wizard and clicks on the button Configure then the following Connection t
56. then the object value will be calculated as follows first Dream Report will calculate the values of all objects included in the SQC string then it will compile the SQC string using the actual object values Finally it will calculate value of the entire object For details please see List of Dynamic Tokens section NOTE Using the name of the entire object in its own SQC may cause deadlock and therefore is not supported Single Data Obpect Delmon W Singe Data Object Definition Ressut Representabon Advanced SUL Condition Enbar SU L based condition Advanced SOL Condition SQL command WHERE o1 FROM F Energy1 WHERE ODBC Batch Batch Date Tempi Add dynamic obpect trom report Energy Add naleg Dala lem Dats Source MDB Batch liem Hana Batch Data Temp ok Cancer Creating two objects where each of them contains an SQC with the name of the other may also cause deadlock and therefore is not Supported 161 NY Date amp Time Object Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Date and Time object displays a dynamic date and or time in the desired format To add this object click on the Date Time button on the Report Designer Studio Elements toolbar Draw a rectangle in the workspace where the data will be displayed Then the following dialog box will be displayed TE Tame Definition Option for dynamic generation C Start of report period End of report period Report Generat
57. to check if the connection to the selected DSN succeeded or failed If DSN connection failed a message box with error will be opened User will have to check the reasons for the DSN connection failure This option also enables users to connect to remote databases over the network The network connection will be managed by ODBC NOTES e All DSNs defined in the project are saved and can be managed from one place for details please see the DSN Manager section of this manual e f before upgrading to version 4 2 the Dream Report project DSN was defined in order to connect to SQL databases SQL Server 2008 SQL Server 2005 then in version 4 the driver in the DSN definition should be changed for the SQL Native Client 10 0 driver for details please see the Project Upgrade Procedure section of this manual Limit Database by period If enabled this option allows a user to limit the database by the data age i e the maximum number of days for which historical data will be Default Database Select Default Database Type MS Access MS SQL Server Custom Database Using DSN Password Limit database by period 365 days Data Logang Settings Tmestamp resolution 1000 Advanced options Web configuration Set Paths Log File Hotbackup Configuration Localization msec OK Cancel Apply 48 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd kept This will be checked by Dream Report each midnight or during pro
58. 000000 aui Subdivisions show Result s j 10 2 a Precision Properties Gauge Arial European 10 a Value Scale Align Style B Z U Font Color Back Color Background color Indicator color Indicator Width Color Grades From 0 z E 10 In the Available Widgets left hand section select a graphical display type Gauge or Linear Indicator Both types differ only in the way they are displayed either gauge or linear indicator They also have two differences in their configuration First Gauge configuration has the Indicator Width box where a user can select one of the suggested options to show graphically the width of the gauge indicator Second the Linear Indicator configuration section has Smooth color transition option this option is described in details in the Properties section below Widget Configuration In the Scale settings section define the minimum and the maximum values for the limits of the displayed scale on a widget object This parameter may have any integer or float number No string values are accepted Edit boxes for Minimum and Maximum value may have either manual static entry or get values from a tag in a standard format i lt source gt lt tag gt In this case when generating report the object will read values of specified real time data source and use it for scale limits For example user can calculate min and max temperature and use it for scale limits by analytical driver By defau
59. 10 30 From to Log out of range BE ngnesing unit conversion Simple conversion Linear calculation If this check box will not be enabled then all 1000 Raw value Enginesring values which are out of range will be ignored Valua 1 and not recorded into the database If this check box will be enabled then all values Value 2 out of range will be rounded to the closest range limit and then written to the database inhibit group logging Example If range is 10 to 30 a value of 35 will be recorded to the database as 30 and a value of 5 will be recorded to the database as 10 OF Cancel Apply Engineering unit conversion has 2 options Simple conversion enables users to make simple mathematical operations with raw values and write the result into the database Allowed calculation operators are Example A simple conversion of 1000 will divide each received value by 1000 and log the result from the group If the received value is 65000 then the logged value will be 65 This will be applied to each value received for each tag defined in the group Linear calculation allows users to perform linear calculation from the raw value The user enters upper and lower raw values 1 and 2 and upper and lower engineering unit values 1 and 2 Dream Report will scale the raw values to engineering units The Inhibit group logging check box can disable group logging It can allow users to define a list of group definiti
60. 4 Fastest exit item The chart will display only one item of those defined in the selected setpoint which was the first to exit from the stability zone of the setpoint 5 Slowest exit item The chart will display only one item of those defined in the selected setpoint which was the first to exit from the stability zone of the setpoint When displaying the setpoint analysis the chart will display a dash line to display a setpoint value and two horizontal dash lines to display min and max of tolerance Stability zones will be marked with two small triangles and also put two vertical dash lines which will help to detect start and stop of the stability zone e SQL Query will enable users to execute SQL query or stored procedure and display the result of that query in a chart To define the SQL query user will have to click on the browse button next to the SQL Query option please see the picture below Process Value SOL Query The standard SQL Query Definition window will be opened Its configuration will be the same as the standard SQL Query definition in Single Data Objects for details please refer to the Direct SQL Query section of the Single Data Object Definition configuration window NOTE SQL query in charts can return one of 2 types of data sets 1 Timestamp and Values one or multiple columns 2 Values only one or multiple columns The Manual Data Entry section supports entering a static numeric value
61. Analptical realtime values 0K cone When the driver configuration window is opened in the Driver Logical Name section the Dream Report analytical driver Analytics will be automatically configured and you will not need to do its configuration again 2 Create new data logging group When you want to add items to your group you will see that the list of available items is the actual list of data objects defined in your project You can select list of any items and add to that new analytical group gt f group record mode is On Update or On Change Dream Report will calculate values of the Statistical objects and record them into the database during each report generation gt If group record mode is Every then Dream Report will re calculate values of the statistical objects each defined period and record those values into the database independently of report generation At this stage your analytical module is already defined and is ready to use NOTE If you need to configure the same driver more than once then after having configured it the first time you ll just need to click in the Select Data Source Type field on any other driver and then go back to the driver that you need to configure Project may contain as many item logging groups with the analytical driver as it may be needed NOTES e We don t recommend to change the report name after analytical groups are created as Analytical driver uses report name and item name in
62. COSY Static data files names separated by for example H 2 3 C Delete Fie Alter Processing Fie Access Configuralion Conmechon to Date Fiels Fie Structure Connection Status Single Database Coloumndtem Use Fie name as ltem name Update Checkup Rate Data Access Configuration Data Delmer Itam Name Text Qualliers ltem Vahe Timestamp Format Select Timestamp Type Custom Date Select Custom ee tL oe a Timestamp Timestamp Formak amdi ZH M Tms UTC Time format d Miissconds 296 NY 2 Data extracted from CSV files Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd E Example Notepad Fie Edt Fomet View Help Timestamp Moterl Moter Motors Tempel Tank1 Temp2 Temps 1 1 06 F ape 07 011251503 23100 B 00 051 0 20 300 5 50 6 9 00 F 1 0 30 450 mnt 1 70 dQ adadi dl alil gti y 1 1765 975 70 1 70 os do 50 sd ili i 1 75 1125 45 100 Li BO L200 50 90 1 B2 1230 55 75 Bd 1260 25 50 86 1290 45 25 a PEN 65 ue 1 1365 35 15 1380 40 20 1395 80 60 184 L410 Loo Bi 595514255 905 gs Oa 1440 ao oo rur LASS 70 100 pA 1470 60 93 p 140s 503 76 13 150 a 100 oe 200 5 50 i 4 Et at Mao Ra Gat Rat Mat at Ht oho chee ore o H ft 0 a URET aa ut me mEn tE HopHOPOHH CE E a un ae POOPOFOD E hii ai ha Lal hd bse ir Fo a m L Loe ek ocror oF gs 450 10 25 0 600 15 15 i 50 750 2
63. Clare aD Clase aD ASP NET 4 0 OefeunAppPoot vad Wteguted 20 Classe 363 N 3 Click on the Advanced Settings option in the right hand side Actions section and configure the DefaultAppPool application pool Please ensure that NET Framework Version is set as v2 0 and Enable 32 Bit Applications is set as True please see the picture below Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Advanced Settings a E General NET Framework Version we Enable 32 Bit Applications Te Managed Pipeline Mode Integrated Queue Length 1000 Start Automatically True B CPU Lurmat 0 Lirit Action Ho cthon Limit Interval minutes 3 Processor Affinity Enabled False Processor Affinity Mask 4294967295 B Process Model Identity ApplicationPoolldentity Idle Time out minutes 20 Load User Profile True Maximum Worker Processes 1 Ping Enabled True name The application pool name is the unique identifier for the application pool OK Cancel NOTE If another application pool default needs to be configured please create a new application tool by clicking Add Application Tool in the Actions section and create another application pool with the same options selected i e NET Framework Version set as v2 0 and Enable 32 Bit Applications set as True 364 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Web Elements Timestamp Picker Timestamp Picker is a dynamic interactive object which enables users to select a timestamp for asso
64. Control Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Version Control module enables users to track design version of the reports log and track all changes between versions and roll back to a specific version number This functionality will be disabled by default when the new project is opened It will become enabled if a user clicks on the Version control command button in the User Management section of the Project ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar either in the Logger or the Report Designer studio see pic below Pry A Home Connectivity Project eb Elements Tools Runtime E i UZ 16 be fi General Data Base Web Set Log Hotbackup Localization Tag Project Parameters Login with Edit projed Version Definition configuration Paths File configuration Dictionary Definition different user users contro Project Settings User Management Then the following dialog box will be opened Enable version control Version control Version Into Select report o Created by user Temperstu cut we aak cher an Created on 11 May 2011 13 57 29 Current Version Version comment amp Ral back Delete maximum temperature value Cancel The edit box Enable version control will enable or disable the Version Control VC functionality NOTE If the Enable version control option is enabled then any time each version of every report is saved all the history of all the versions of every report will be automatically logged in
65. Designer Studio menu see pic below aes A Home Connectivity Project Web Elements Tools Runtime iO Ff amp e 3 ifs me vse fig Jata Base Web Set Log Hotbackup Localization Tag Project Parameters Edit project Version Definition configuration Paths File configuration Dictionary Definition ery users control Project Settings User Management Users can define e Project related general information name author description e Database connection settings Project Settings x e Log file definition e Web portal configuration settings Generel e Project paths to different folders for file management Project Name of different modules e Connection of two Dream Report stations as a hot backup couple to work accordingly e Interface language settings all dialog boxes and menus Project Descnpton Demo Project Author Ocesn Dats Systems In the GENERAL tab a user defines general project related information like project name author and description Project configuration files will be saved in a folder which will have the project name you have entered User Authentcation Check box Enable user authorization defines whether __ Enable user authorization project access Is going to be password protected If the user Define Users checks that check box he has to define users Clicking on Define Users button will open user definition Internal Project Parameters IPP dialog box For more detailed information
66. Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd By clicking the Start button in the Project Wizard Welcome window a user will start creating a new project First the Project Name window will be opened Frojeci Name Data Archiving Please enter your new project name Ere iy rapat Batch Definition Reports Please select the place where the project folder and project files will be saved Crogan Pils OOS Dream Regati rojt nen report kal In this section user will define the project name and select the PC folder where the project configuration files will be saved The folder will have the project name you have entered Click Next to go to the next step of project creation Click Back to go one step back to re configure or check project configuration Click Close to exit Project Wizard without any operation performed NOTE Please always define the name of the project which is being created by the Project Wizard If you don t define the name of your project then when you will come to the final step of project creation and will click button Create to close Project Wizard and to load the project into the Dream Report Studio the message box Project Name is Empty will pop up and you will not be able to perform the operation you want 22 N Connectivity Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd This step of project creation enables users to connect to any data source and acquire live data alarms or access its histor
67. E AEA eee 77 DEE F a nee ee ee er 78 excel report layout wizard wxiinsnraenvnscszvateondatinacsavabeimeay 77 Excel HOPON eree EErEE EE 78 execute after report GENCLALION c1ccsccscnsensesenseneens 87 Ocean Data Systems Ltd execute before report GENCLATLION cccreeseesensenees 87 execute ON CVEN cccsccsssscsssscnsssensescesecseusesensensesenaes 87 Execute Report at wnzcedexonsnensentancnmnsdaastesontedsnemuseattenbes 73 Execute Report Each eresiaren 73 Export Tables HOGQCNS vesicccsnsacierscsatcncdndaeccncvactedacdasaes 78 Export Tables TIES suere 78 Export to static Excel file scscckectecacesccntaskecuntecedtectentecses 78 Expression Data QC CE si xcunss siwiwsimtiunvanidinrwnagnausniacen 144 Expression OO CE o ctacsanesncnavnenncnandesndanoteacasazesathenies 144 External History Servet ccccccccsecsssscsnsnssseseesenens 129 F Fastest entry MGI ics ctvncetcanontevanlvnsbsistantodastunieairadnetas 202 Fastest CNC ON creerea erie a E RSA 202 PT NS ari E E 158 1 PE E E A E PE E EE 112 F N a E Pace he tess 129 E E ce ee EE I I A A T 202 Fito Ume prod sessies 202 e N AAEE AE 112 Fed FONO oarenien ENES 164 FROG FONDO areen 164 Folder SEO CHON senicesireie A 50 FOOT eee e desea teekemensadiecenacanetes 234 Free SOL QUE renns a 129 Free SQL Table viiscsnigisscasapvisvasvhcrevasasviasanihevavaoneenain 184 Free Ne aisin e e 172 Full File NaMe o ooaaaanaaannannnannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnne 158 G General
68. Import button the standard Windows Open file window will be opened where you can select location and name for the list import file Open file will be filtered by csv extension The format of the import file list will be exactly the same as described in the Export section Only 2 columns Name and Type are obligatory If a list file with only these 2 columns has been created such an import file should be imported as well When a file will be imported the message box will pop up asking Do you want to replace existing tags by the importing list The corresponding operation will be done according to a user s choice NOTE If you try to import tags appending the list to the existing one and some imported tag will have the same name as an already existing tag a message box will pop up saying that the duplicated tag name has been found specifying the name of that tag and proposing a user to choose either to use an existing tag definition or delete an existing one and use an imported tag definition The corresponding action will be done according to a user s choice There is no limit in term of the number of tags defined in the Web manual driver configuration dialog window 359 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Manual Data Entry Manual Data Entry Functions enable users to enter manual values in the standard Dream Report reporting template Those manual values are used to enter manual data into the Drea
69. LIKE lf the Boolean type is selected the Condition combo box will include only one option After having defined the Condition user will select AND or OR and click on Add condition button When all conditions have been added user will click Add filter button and the defined filter will be added to the list of filters in the Filter Name table NOTE If user selects filter from the list the Conditions list will be filled with the filter settings If user selects condition from the list of conditions all dialog controls will be filled according to the defined condition Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd If user has defined the alarm filter without clicking on Add filter button and clicks OK button the filter which has not been added before will be automatically addedto the list of alarm filters PcVue real time values using web services driver configuration lf a PcVue real time values using web services communication driver is selected then as soon as you click on Configure button the following PcVue driver configuration dialog window will be opened X Host addes Picoy address Prowy Fot LJHTTPS Usemarnne Passveord Update Aate 10 in seconds Use altemative language C Test Connecti In this window please specify Host address The IP address of PcVue server to which the driver will be connected Proxy address The address of a proxy server if exists Proxy port Proxy port HT TP
70. Ltd o If Half empty value range option is defined with the range of From To 40 then the step table will have 1 step for the entire period of 17 00 11 59 The whole table period will be one step only o lf Half empty value range option is defined with the range of From 20 To then the step table will have 2 steps for that period 11 20 11 40 and 11 59 lt end of the period gt lf Step number is value based option is selected then the Select the object for step number value combo box will be filled with the list of reporting simple objects Single Data objects Compound objects Expression objects etc Step Period ee Select the object for Step number Pulse Number After an object has been selected later when report is generated the object calculation result will be taken as a number of steps Example If the object Pulse Number has a value 4 then the Step table will have 4 rows Each row will have the same time period and the difference will be only the Step ID which can be used as an argument for Statistical calculations inside the table please see Column Type Settings section below NOTE This option enables to create steps rows by calculated number where time period for each step is the same and the difference between steps is not time but the number of rows lf Step number is based on all item values option is selected then all tag values will be considered In this mode th
71. Main OPC Server radio button is enabled you can select the computer name and the OPC server e lf the Backup OPC Server radio button is enabled the Computer Name edit box and the Select Server combo box will be empty You will be able to make another selection for the backup OPC server If the OPC server has secured password protected connection it will be possible to specify in the OPC server secured access section login and password for the connection for the selected OPC server Login and password will be set and saved separately for the main and backup servers NOTE If OPC server definition contains login and password the OPC browser and client will use it every time when connecting to the OPC server 323 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd If no login and password is defined then the OPC browser and the client will be connecting to the server as usual in anonymous mode In the Select Server section please select the required OPC server to which you would like to connect FS Gateway from the selected PC In the Computer Name field specify the name of the PC where OPC server is running By default it is localhost which means a local PC If another PC in a network has to be specified click on Browse Network button and then select the needed computer name from a network You can refresh server list from the specified PC by clicking on the button Refresh Server List It will get a list of OPC servers
72. Modbus Prodile Configuration Devices coniuratio Endan Tag configuration Type Table Bool 1 ba Dincrete inputs Kame Aedkdeess Type data T Urt Add Deme Ermar List of defied bags fies ep reas Nene Acoess_Edit_ModeAL TALAI Access _Edi_Mode Al 1 ALA Access Edi Moda ALALA Access Edi Mode ALALA Access Edi Mode AL TALA Access Edi Mode ALl PALA Apps Edi M oda lTALal Actes Edi Moda ALl TALAZ Access Edi Mode ALAL Apes Eaa bieda Al i baad Murie fal er ata ok Cancel Type Bi field 16 bn Bit field 16 b Bitfield 16 ba Bi field 16 b Bit field 16 b Er held 16 bri Brheld 16 Ga Bit held 16 bm Bit field 16 bet Batela Gf hea Uproar Hore r Tdata Table 1 Input registers 1 Input registers 2 input registers ra Input registers 3 input registers 3 Input registers ij Irpiri neg sears di Input registers 0 Input registers E Binme nrerin Address Limit B82 638 46 Jate 639465 bjah2 63346 eJatg 63846 B82 Cir Enu In this window a user has to define his data points one by one specifying a data point logical name in the Name edit box its logical Modbus address in the Address edit box using standard Modbus conventional addressing the ID of the Modbus device unit in the Modbus network in the Unit edit box and then click on Ado button The new data point will be added to the list If a list of data points is too long a user can filter the ite
73. Preprocessor Dynamic Tokens gen Batchld This dynamic token will be replaced by ID of the batch Batch ID for which the report is generated gen ReportStartTime This dynamic token will be replaced by Report Start Time as configured in the dynamic generation settings gen ReportEndTime This dynamic token will be replaced by Report End Time as configured in the dynamic generation settings file lt file_ name gt lt param_names This dynamic token will be replaced by the parameter value that will be found in the specified lt file name gt The file has to have a special format in order to be used in Report Preprocessor The special file format is lt ods_ rpp_ document ver 1 00 gt lt ods rpp_param_list gt lt ods rpp_ param name param1 value value1 gt lt ods_ rpp_ param name param2 value value2 gt lt ods rpp_ param name param3 value value3 gt lt ods_rpp_param_list gt lt ods_rpp_document gt 126 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Dream Report ini File Dream Report enables users to configure some advanced parameters according to their needs in a separate Dream Report ini file Dream Report ini file DreamReport ini is located in the System folder of Dream Report installation Below you can find a list of tuning parameters in DreamReport ini file with the description of their functions List of basic Dream Report ini file parameters 1 If you need to mini
74. Redistributable This is a component provided by Microsoft which is required for proper operation of Web Services communication In the actual version of Dream Report Web Services are used in the communication drivers for PCVue SCADA and for Schneider FactoryCast PLC If you use Dream Report with native communication to PcVue SCADA package please install this component Otherwise its installation is not required Language Installation While installing Dream Report the installation procedure doesn t provide selection of the installed language Though Dream Report has true multilingual environment you can set your preferred language after installation in the Project Settings section in the Dream Report studio However also during installation Dream Report will automatically check for the language of actual operating system and will automatically set product language to it if that language exists in the product or otherwise set product language to English as default Also it is possible to manually change the current language open DreamReport ini file in the System folder This is an ASCII text file which can be opened using Notepad or other text editors This file contains section Current Language You will see there the actual defined language You can change it to any other language existing in the Dream Report lexicon save and close the file The next time you open Dream Report Designer Studio or Runtime Manager the new lan
75. Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Manual Values Editor MVE Manual Values Editor is a module which enables user to enter manual data and then use it for reports during To enter manual values user has to do the following 1 Open Driver Configuration in the Report Designer studio and select a real time manual driver MVE real time values option as a source of obtaining data for your project reports see Pic 1 You can also provide your data source description if needed Communication Configuration Wizard Select Data Source Typa 3 intemal EE Analtical pealime values E Web manual dive BWE real time values Simulation Duiver 4 Wonderware 4 Aspertech 4 Open communication protec 4 Citect 4 4 Siemers 4 Eurotherm 4 Loytec H Miteubichi 4 Emerson 4 Arc iniomaligue 4 4 Techno Trade a Wiecon Dici letters Manual items definition bem mane Configure Driver for Selected Sourcea Defined Divers List Driver Logical Aan Manual Values Data Source Description BWE realtime values Flow meter 1 Descophon a7 List of defined manual tems Pressure Gauge 1 oe eee Report database To do this a user should Direer Logical Mame Eag Anatptics Add BB Manual Booac Sonim E SuiteLink_chiver ee WEB Pic 1 Pic 2 2 Click on the button Configure and the following manual driver configuration window will be opened In this window enter a list of predefined parameter names which
76. Timestamp Format desired and then click on the Add uote zj Line button The line will be added to J Show Absolute tme on X mes the chart Show Relative time on X axe Apply correction factor for all item Legend Tee tie Graph Style values enables adding simple Line Style m v ie zj expression to a chart If a user needs n to display a chart on item s with the i correction factor then first all values ranar of the selected item s will be re eee eee calculated applying correction factor z Raan and then the chart will display re calculated data For more details please refer to the Correction Factor section ADF to be used enables to select an aggregated data filter ADF to be used combo box will contain all ADF definitions configured in the project The default string will be Not Used i e no filter ADF is applied For details on ADF definition configuration please go to the Aggregated Data Filter section of this manual 202 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Process Value section enables to select a statistical function for the chart object and has 6 available options Process Value Moving Average Linear regression Power regression Setpoint analysis e Value will display a chart object according to the report item values selected e Moving Average will display a chart object as an analyzed set of data items having created a series of averages of different values
77. User will have to select Windows users groups their location and the name If the selected name can t be found or is not typed correctly then the error message box will pop up saying that an object with the selected name cannot be found In this case user can click on the Advanced button to start advanced Windows user group selection The following dialog box will be opened Select User or Group Select this object Ippe User ov Group Erom the bocatior TANILA Comon Uusies Mame ADH n Folder vmware us TANIA El Adriristator i amazal E ASPNET Eh Guest Gy Heletcistart TANIA IUSR_AMA TANIA WWSR_OB1 TANIA E WWAM_AMAZ TANIA TANIA If a user clicks on the Find Now button the drop down list will appear User will be able to select the relative distinguished name RDN to be added to the list of Users Groups and click on OK This name will immediately appear in the object name edit box of the Select User or Group dialog box Click on OK and the selected Windows user or group will be added to the corresponding list in the User Management Users and Groups dialog window All selected information will be saved in the Dream Report User Management database 62 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd User Group Authorization This functionality enables to assign project report access rights to the user user groups selected If you click on the Authorization tab the Authorization dialog window section wi
78. Value Advanced ey ery 2 Fiow_data time _t Fiom _data_time_i This Combo Bow is Obligatory lt Visible in POF Add Def Value lt Not speofied gt User has to select a tag Data Source ltem name and time period Define time period and then the combo box will be filled with all values extracted for the specified tag for the specified time period If user wants to display all existing values he can check the All values check box and then the time period definition control will become disabled and all tag values will be extracted If more than one same value exists in the database only one will be displayed in the combo box it will operate similar to the SELECT DISTINCT SQL query lf a user wants to apply additional filtering to the data he she can click on the Advanced SQL button The Advanced SQL Condition dialog window will be opened for details please see Advanced SQL Condition section of tis manual List of users display When this option is selected the combo box will be filled with the list of all available users lf Windows user management system is used Active directory or local windows users list then Dream Report will retrieve the list of all users from Windows and fill the combo box with that list for details please see User Management section of this manual 223 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Show Data Source List This option will have 2 radio buttons Dream Report
79. a tree If any report has virtual instances defined that report will be displayed in a list as an expandable nod When a user expands it the list of available instances for that report will be displayed If a user will select any report or its instance the section Report info will display its related information Reports Queue The Reports Queue section of the RMC displays current status of report generation queue The extended list will contain the list of reports which are being generated now in runtime or are waiting in the queue for generation please see the picture below Runtime Management Console Avyailabla Reports Bj Batch reports 1 Batch rt Batch Re bal i i 5 Energy Report examples p i 1 21 43 Bateh lafo Repoet Waiting L Boergy Eficency Aega C Report Energy y OEE Performance and Mentenance H Equipreent availability report Report Maintenance State Project is Running t l Production and Manufacturing i Reporting Objects Examples Current User H Setpoint Analysis Operating Mode ACTIVE PHE Water amp Waste Water HHE Web Reports C ODS bream Repot Pred Demo Demo _ stari Reload Generate Reports Generate A Open A Cynamic Generstion Raport inig Clear Report Queue y Current Status Waiting Project Access n Lasi Generated 5S 2012 11 20 58 Open Help l l i Next Generation 16 1 2012 00 00 00 Queus To delete one or more
80. and Enterprise 32 bit and 64 bit editions VVVVV WV Databases supported MS Access 2000 2003 2007 MS SQL Server 2005 2008 incl R2 MS SQL Server 2005 Express 2008 Express MS SQL Server 2012 over ODBC SQL Native Client 11 MySQL 4 x and 5 x versions over ODBC driver 3 51 5 1 Oracle 11 over Oracle XE ODBC driver VVVVV WV Manual Data WEB Reports System Requirements Data Entry Functions are compliant with the following operating systems gt Windows XP SP3 and higher gt Windows Vista SP1 and higher gt Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit gt Windows Server 2008 32 bit and 64 bit gt Windows Server 2008 R2 Data Entry Functions are compliant with the following database types gt SQL Server 2005 gt SQL Server 2005 Express Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd SQL Server 2008 SQL Server 2008 Express MS Access 2000 2003 2007 MySQL 4 0 5 0 5 1 Oracle 9 1 10 0 The following Microsoft NET Framework versions are required to be installed on DR server and web client PCs gt NET Framework 3 5 gt NET Framework 4 0 For details please refer to the Manual Data Entry section of this manual gt gt gt gt gt Additional Software Requirements lf you would like to visualize PDF files please install Adobe Acrobat Reader for the best performance we recommend to use Acrobat Reader 7 0 and higher If you want to use Web Portal please install a web server Internet Information Server or ot
81. and Yearly Please select which type of schedule you would like to use e f Monthly option will be selected then the combo box on the right will be filled with the possible days of the month 1 31 Select which date of every month that selected report will be automatically generated To the right of date selection specify the time at which the report will be generated e f Yearly option will be selected then the combo box on the right will display a calendar to select a day of the year for the given report to be generated Though the calendar will contain the current year report 74 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd generation will not be limited to the selected year Every year the report will be generated at your selected date To the right of date selection specify a time at which the report will be generated The Daily or Weekly Report option enables a user to define a very flexible schedule of report generation one or more times during one specific day or several days of the week For this create a list of schedule records defining when each report will be generated The schedule record includes the time hh mm ss and the days of the week Each scheduler record may contain its own set of days of the week The report will be generated every day at each defined time which is enabled in the schedule To add a record enter the desired time in the Set Time edit box in the format hh mm ss select the desired days of the week and cli
82. as an application new option By default Dream Report runtime engine will start as an application In order to set runtime engine to run as service user can go to Dream Report studio section Runtime and click on the Runtime Configuration button The runtime configuration window will be opened 15 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Runtime Settings x Start mode Run as service Run as appication Startup opbons Start runtime automatically when starting PC Start this project when starting runtime C 00S Dream Report Project General_Testing Project Set current project as startup Level of log messages Debug Default project settings If your project has to be launched on OS start and as default project when runtime is started then specify this also in the Startup options section of the Runtime Settings configuration window see the picture above For details on how to configure the runtime engine please see Runtime Configuration section of this manual Licensing and Software Protection Dream Report has software and or hardware license protection 1 Demo license When Dream Report is installed without any license it will automatically work in the demo mode The Dream Report demo mode sets a limit of 25 tags and enables web portal with 1 web client The Designer Studio will run an unlimited period of time and the Runtime manager will work up to 30 minutes The purpose of t
83. at this very moment click on the Archive now button to trigger the archive operation 258 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd 2 manually register new archive files at this very moment To do this please click on the Edit archive library button The Database archive files library edit window will be opened Database archive files library x File Name Data available from Data available to dba_3 00000 20 12 07 02 14 1 02 Jul 2012 17 17 03 02 Jul 2012 19 24 45 dba_3 00000 20 12 07 02 16 2 02 Jul 2012 19 27 03 03 Jul 2012 16 06 42 OK Cancel This window will display the list of all currently available archive files File Name and their data availability i e their start time Data available from and end time Data available to You select one or multiple files and click on Delete button The confirmation message box will be displayed and if the deletion is confirmed the operation will be executed If you click on Ada button the standard Open file window will be opened with file extension filter set to dba where you can select any existing dba file When the file is selected the DBA module will parse it and if the file is not valid or is corrupted the error message box will be displayed and file import will not be done If this file is valid the DBA module will read file data detect start and end time of its data and then check if there is no time overlap with existing file
84. batch based relative time period is used batchAbsPeriod This argument will indicate that the batch based absolute time period is used timeStart Time that defines start of period timeEnd Time that defines end of period batchDef Name of the batch definition to be uses batchRel Mode for the relative batch ID it can be last or current batchCount Number of batches to count batchlidStart ID of the batch for the report start batchIdEnd ID of the batch for the report end currentTime This argument will set the current time for the report Target for the report can be pdf email printer excel see examples below fileParam File to be used as a file with the parameters for preprocessor NOTE If fixPeriod is used then timeStart has to provide one of the following arguments last day last n days last hour last n hours last week last n weeks last month and last n months Current day Current hour Current week Current month Current quarter where n is a number from 1 to 500 Examples e rtm exe generate name Report_1 instance Instance_1 fixPeriod last 10 hours e rtm exe generate name Report_1 instance Instance_1 absPeriod timeStart 31 12 2010 00 00 00 timeEnd 01 01 2011 00 00 00 e rtm exe generate name Report_1 instance Instance_1 relPeriod timeStart 10 2 30 30 timeEnd 5 2 30 30
85. be by Alarm text and Priority lf Priority is not available then the alarm text only will be used for analysis NOTE This column will be available only in mode Display every alarm once e Fit rows to text By default this display option will be enabled If it is enabled the height of the header cells will increase and the data cells part of the table will have less size to fit the text If this option is disabled the height of the data cells part of the table will increase thus giving more size to the text so that maximum fits e Display as event list If this check box will be selected then the alarm table will automatically unselect display of the following table columns Ack time End time Duration Response time The message list table style will have only the following table columns available Start time Alarm text Priority This mode can be possibly selected in the combination with the Display every alarm once mode In this combination single line for alarm will be shown and the criteria to compare will be the same In this case the column Number of occurrences will also be available Advanced Visualization lf a user will click the button Advanced Options the Advanced visualization dialog window will be opened The check box Enable advanced visualization defines if x the advanced visualization mode is enabled or disabled If you have created all the logic of advanced visualization aeae n iaaii and then disabled th
86. be displayed as a tree please see the pic below Single Data Object Definition w Select Stalistical Fumction ig General Functions First Value Timestamp of First Value Last Vale Timestamp of Last Value Current Value Maximum Timestamp of Maximum Value Minimum Timestamp of Minimum Value Integral Average Weighted Average Sur Standard Deviation Standard Deviation Sample Based H Advanced Functions H Performance Analysis Functions F Energy Management Funcions H Batch Functions H Setpoint Analysis Functions H Alarm Analysis Functions Drect SOL Query Pulse Analysis Functions umber of Pulses Peak Maximum walie Peak Minimum Value Manual Input Expand Al _ cance ox Cancel If a user needs to expand collapse one of the groups in the Statistical Functions tree he will only have to click on the corresponding group branch If a user needs to see the whole tree displayed or collapsed he will be able to do it by clicking the button in the bottom right corner of the Select Statistical Function dialog box If the dialog box is opened with the expanded tree of the groups of statistical functions then the button Collapse Al will contract the tree If the dialog box is opened with the collapsed groups then the button Expand All will open the Statistical Functions tree By default when the Select Statistical Function dialog box is opened the tree will appear partially expanded only the group branch from which th
87. be implemented in the data browser e Data Client library which will connect to a data source and will get value updates or read values when needed For real time alarm access alarm client library has to be created For external history access you will have to implement item browser and history access client In order to receive more detailed information on a toolkit get instructions for use and other toolkit related information please apply to your local Dream Report distributor Special documentation on this issue Is available 350 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Web Portal Dream Report Web Portal Web Portal Overview Dream Report has its own proprietary web portal which enables users to browse a list of reports from the currently running project to visualize any existing report from the entire project to generate any report on user demand in real time to enter manual values data into the Dream Report database or use them for calculations or filtering for regular reporting Dream Report web portal uses ASP net web technology and has communication with the runtime manager using Microsoft NET Framework version 3 5 or higher Manual Data Entry WEB Reports Dream Report web portal also provides a set of Dream Report functions Manual Data Entry Functions which enable users to enter manual values in a standard Dream Report reporting template Those manual values can be later used to enter manual data into the Dream R
88. be opened please see Tag Dictionary section lf this dialog is opened from the existing report template which has tag dictionary defined then it will be filled with tag descriptions from the template Source and ltem name columns will contain a small button browse When user clicks on it the following Data litem Picker dialog window will appear Data Item Picker ra Select Data tem Dream Report History External History Server Data Source ODBC histoncal values ltem Marne E Quen Tempi Cancel If a user will click OK in this item selection dialog window source name and item name will be set into the list control The source type Dream Report History or External History Server will be saved for each entry separately as well If source name or and item name is defined in the list control and user calls the item selection dialog window then Select Data Item window will be opened with existing selection filled in If a user will double click either into the Source name column or into the ltem name column the cell will be opened for manual text editing In the top right corner of the tag dictionary dialog window there is a button Print If a user will click on it it will open Windows print dialog box and user can select printer or the file and print the list of Source item names and their descriptions For details on how to configure tag dictionary please go to the Tag Di
89. be opened on the local computer The options PDF and or Excel allow users to specify report formats that will be opened automatically If a report is generated via the web portal or using the Dynamic Report Generator it will not be opened automatically To open a report in Excel format MS Excel must be installed as Excel format reports are opened in MS Excel environment To open a report in PDF format Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader has to be installed 77 NY Excel Reports Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Dream Report allows users to generate report files in PDF and MS Excel formats If a user enables the Excel option then the Excel format for that report will be enabled The layout which will be exported to Excel has to be defined separately from the layout for PDF NOTE Dream Report Excel export module will also allow to export report data to CSV format for details please see the CSV Report Format section below In order to define Excel format click on the Excel Settings button in the Report File Format section of Report Settings The Excel Wizard will be opened please see the picture below J Report s list F Alarm Tables Automatic Statistic Bacteriological Reg Be Graphs z Batch Info Report Batch Trend E Charts j Data Tables y Demo Batch Repor Energy Efficiency F I Equipment avaiabi E Fluoride Monthly R 2 GW Manthly Oper 5J Indicators a Monthly Op
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91. data points their name Modbus address data type etc Loading existing profile The combo box Load predefined profile contains the full exhaustive list of all available predefined Modbus profiles If there is any profile which you want to load please select this profile in the combo box and then click on the Load button The driver configuration engine will load the selected profile and the section Current working profile will display the loaded Modbus profile data such as Profile description will be written in the edit box and the Number of tags string will display the number of tags defined in the selected profile Now all list of predefined tags will be loaded Create and save new profile gt If you are not using any predefined profile and you have already configured once your list of Modbus data points and you will use the same profile in the future you can type a description for the new profile click on the button Save as a new profile and then you can type the profile name in the Save file dialog window The profile file has to be saved in the Modbus folder in the System directory then it will become available in the profile selection list with its list of data points and their addresses gt If you are using an existing predefined Modbus profile and you have edited modified it and wish to save it under a new profile name you also need to enter a profile description click on a button Save as a new profile and the
92. defined in a query font background color etc 184 D SQL Table Data Definition The SQL Query Table must configure the SQL table settings as follows e Select the DSN for details please see the DSN Manager section of this manual e Define the Query Free SAL Query table x Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Object Gesonpbon Baten Process 1 a ODBC Database Source Process DEN SQL Query SELECT TIMESTAMP BATCH_NUM MOTOR L TANK _LEVEL 1 AOM Batch_Data WHERE BATCH NUM 4 and MOTOR 1 1 AND TANK _LEVEL gt f Energy J Use query drecty Select data object Energy x Ada OK Cancel SQL Query table can automatically recognize the list of SQL columns which will be retrieved from the database and the internal SQL query parser has certain limitations described below If you mark the check box Use query directly below the SQL query edit box then the SQL query will be executed exactly as it is without trying to parse it 185 BiBatch Table _ TIMESTAMP BATCH_ Motori Motor2 Motor3 Temp1 Temp2 Temp3 TankLevell TankLevel2 TankLevel3 gt 01 01 2005 03 50 18 10 01 01 2005 09 45 02 01 01 2005 15 56 10 Enr 14 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Use Case Example Suppose you need to extract from the Batch Database Tank Level values for the batch number 4 under condition when Motor 1 is On 1 1 You must define the DSN for the database and select it
93. distribution lists To do that manually create an ASCII file with the list of contacts containing the contact alias and email address and click the mport button After that user can browse for an ASCII file select it and the email recipient list will be imported 81 NY To add an email contact manually click on the Add button and the Add Email Contact dialog box will be opened Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Alias Production Manager Email Address pmanager company cor OK Cancel In the Alias field fill in the recipient alias name or title In the Email Address field enter the recipient email address NOTE Emails will be generated and delivered only during automatic report generation according to the generation schedule on time or on event as defined in the Report Time Definition Generate report on event sections of the Report Settings If you need to send deliver emails with generated reports where the data has been entered manually on demand please enable the Email check box in the User Reports Targets section of the Dynamic Report Generator in runtime 82 NY Printer Selection Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Each separate report can be printed on a separate list of printers which enables the most efficient report distribution If a user clicks on the Browse button below the Printer check box in the Report File Format dialog box the Printer Configuration window wil
94. driver supports OPC 1 20 standard OPC driver can be configured to any local or remote OPC server having flat or hierarchical architecture OPC Client Configuration To configure OPC driver first open the Communication Configuration Wizard dialog window Taag Diets Sous T poe Conhgue Diver lor Selected Source Dered Drean List PHA Inter Driver Logical Mme HJ Wondene sad oge t Cj Azra tech Driver Logical Hame BB ETIS Open communication peobocols OPC DA ductal E otat Alam aig BACnet _ W dis E Excel Dss Import ime vales sim Aes B FO realtime yale amp Modbus TCPAP AS2a2 A5Cll 4 4 obec a OLE DE OPC 5 HE OPT AE reste alaire OFC HDA fristoy data access E OONMP mahina value H Cist aie Gima Data Source Desciphor OPC DA jeend tire vaes ok cove Select one of the 3 OPC drivers OPC DA real time values OPC AE real time alarms OPC HDA history data access from the OPC subfolder of the Open communication protocols folder in the Select data source type section Click on Configure button and the OPC driver configuration dialog box will be opened OPC DA real time values and OPC HDA history data access drivers will have the following configuration window 307 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Select OPC Server Ha OPC server secured access Main OPC Server Backup OPC Server l Login admir Password ones Computer Name Slocalhost Browse Network S
95. driver to the project a user has to select InTouch historical values LGH files driver from the list of Wonderware history access drivers in the Wonderware folder of the Select Data Source Type section please see the picture below Communication Configuratian Wizard n z Taja S sid la Configure Direer for Sebeched Source Defined Drws List 4 Intemal P 3 i Diver Logica Hame E worden E oAppleston Server local or emae Dream Logecal Mane B iihi E WAW Historian infouch Misterian re DnE OEC dsa E Intouch losd of remote rode using FS Configure i i sin_ Alam B SuiteLirk Protocol over TCPAP Wi sim Res S lnl ouch arima alain 4 4aL MDE E WALH Histoncel lem 3 E Aspertech ij Open communicaslion protocols 14 Cied 2 ry Son fring 4 10 Eurotherm J J Loptec J E Miteubich aj Baer Data Sune Donii InTouch hitoica values LIGH files e Then button Configure will become enabled Click on Configure button and the following driver configuration window will be opened Access to Wonderware LGH files yg Configure Access to LGH data files Select Folder which contains LGH data Files ed In the Access to Wonderware LGH files dialog window the path where LGH files have to be taken from should be configured By default the LGH path will be empty If real time InTouch driver is enabled and configured in the project then the default path to LGH files will be taken as follows lt InTouch project path g
96. drivers 4 Wait while the product installation process is completed 5 Restart the computer Here are some installation tips which we ask you to read before installing Selection of Communication Drivers When installing Dream Report it will automatically install only 4 basic drivers OPC ODBC Analytical and Simulation drivers If you need to use any other drivers in your project then during product installation when you come to the Select installed components window in the installation wizard you will see a tree of installed components and communication drivers There you have to expand the Communication Drivers branch of that tree and select check all drivers which you may need when using Dream Report Web Portal During Dream Report installation the installation wizard will check if Internet Information Services IIS are installed in your operating system Together with IIS you have to ensure that all ASP NET related components are installed please refer to Web portal configuration guide If IIS is not installed on your system then the Web portal and all related components will not be installed In this case you will get a prompt message that IIS installation is not found and the Web portal will not be installed and if you wish to continue product installation If you do not intend to use Dream Report web portal please click Yes and the product installation will continue without installing Web portal If you do intend to
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98. enable disable object as internal hyperlink v Combo box Select Report to generate will be filled with the list of all project reports including current report Combo box Set Parameter will be filled with the list of all available defined internal project parameters IPPs v Combo box Select Parameter Data Source will be filled with the list of all relevant objects defined in that report i e with the following object types Single Data Objects Compound Data Objects Expression Data Objects Combo boxes Date Time pickers When user will click on Ada button the selected parameter with the selected corresponding object will be added to the list NOTES e The list of parameters can t have the same parameter defined twice However it may have the same report object defined several times for multiple parameters 367 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd e Report parameters using hyperlinks will work only for web report formats in Dream Report Web Portal Only WEB report formats Report Output File will be generated using hyperlinks PDF and Excel report formats will not be generated using hyperlinks For details on internal project parameters IPP configuration please refer to the Project Parameters section of this manual Text Object Hyperlink Definition If a text object is defined as a hyperlink its caption is not linked to the object s hyperlink configuration So if a user will change the text
99. example will be 50 When the System Availability statistical function is used is automatically added as a unit if no other unit is specified To remove as a unit please define a space as the unit Energy Management Functions Produced Energy calculates the amount of energy released during the period of some production process If a user will select this statistical function for the report then he will have to select from the corresponding drop down boxes the type of fuel gas coal mazout and the type of units MCal GCal Mj Gj which will measure the energy produced see pic below 134 D Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Select Statistical Function Produced Energy gt Fueltyoe Gas Units MCal Produced Emission calculates the amount of gases emitted during the period of some production process If a user will select this statistical function for the report then he will have to select from the corresponding drop down boxes the type of fuel gas coal mazout and the type of gases which will measure the emission produced This section will have the same boxes as the Produced Energy option Batch Functions Batch ID displays the ID of the batch used as the time period for the calculation If the range of batch IDs is used then the ID of the first batch from the range will be displayed And the total period will be taken for report generation This function can be used only with batch based time
100. files with settings of reports defined in Log File a project C Program Files 00S Dream Repoti Projecti Erer e lt report name gt lyt files with object layout of reports defined in a project Peek Dasess f deina other project related files C Program Files t0DS Dream Repoti Frosti Defa Log File defines the folder where project log files will be created and Repote Destinaion Folja stored CA Frogam Files 0D Dream RepotiProject Ener l Default Database defines the folder where default database files if defined of the entire project will be stored Web ies Report Destination Folder defines the folder where report files in CAProgam Files ODS Dream Fleport Project Ener PDF format will be stored Web files defines the folder where all web portal related files will be copied Log Fie Hotbackup Configuration To change the folder a user has to type a new path in the Taran appropriate edit box or to click on the Browse button and select the needed folder o Apply 52 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Log File Settings Dream Report has a built in service to log online errors and information which may be useful in debugging or auditing a project The log file configuration is defined in the Log File tab of the Project Settings dialog box To open Log File dialog window click on the command button Log File on the Project ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar either in the Dream Report Log
101. filter and display the result in the chart Alarm Count per Period If you will select a chart type of Alarm Count per Period the Define Alarm Filter button will appear Chart Based On Define Alarm Filter Alarm Count Per Period _ Click on the Define Alarm Filter button and the Alarm Filter Manager dialog window will be opened You can select one alarm filter pick a desired color enter the label for the legend if desired and press the Ado button If this pie function is selected Dream Report will go to the alarm history and count how many alarms matched the selected alarm filter and will display the result in the chart NOTE Pie configuration cannot include different pie functions one pie graph can only include slices with the same pie function Pie configuration doesn t include slices with different time periods one time period applies to the entire pie chart for all slices 194 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Pie Graph Appearance The Appearance section of the Pie Graph definition window contains formatting options for the chart The optional Pie Graph Name edit box will contain the title which will be displayed above the chart aan Cehraion The Display Name check box will enable or disable oes the title display make it visible or invisible ae ln Od Produchon by wells The Display Options section defines which pie object Display Name properties will be displayed in a report or i aplay Options
102. for each instance please see the pic below Current Level Search foo Bape Report Formats Description Generated on New Report Ha oath a tj meas smemae i i i auth Bia ton peal pel i oe Wiater eae gygy iaasa eo Water Trasimari bes Aig Sport yet ii ad Standard generation New Report and dynamic report generation New Dynamic Report buttons will be available for each report report instance By clicking on the button needed the corresponding report report instance will be generated 354 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd If a user clicks on New Dynamic Report button the following Dream Report Portal window will be opened Dream Report Portal 314 Dera teport Selected Energy Production INSTANCE Energy Report Please select the type of generation Absolute Stert of period End of period Date Oar Mort veer Date Dew Moorthy feer Select Select 210212012 14 03 2012 ure P Time ihhiomm as Time ihh mm as j Copyright AB naht renerved User will be able to define one of the 5 options for dynamic report generation e Original time period e Batch based time period e Absolute time period e Relative time period e Fixed time period For details on how to configure these options please see Dynamic Report Generator section Web Portal Detail Page Detail Page of the Dream Report Portal enables users to browse a list of the instances of the selected report from the currently run
103. format in the Timestamp format in data block combo box has value which is not Date and time then please select which cell the other part of the timestamp can be taken from If the Timestamp format in data block combo box has the Time value defined select a cell which contains the date that will be taken for every value and added to its time Row and Column of the cell will be selected from the combo boxes in the Date is located in the cell section If the Timestamp format in data block combo box has the Date value defined select a cell which contains the time that will be taken for every value and added to the date In this case this parameter is optional and if no cell is selected the midnight time will be used In the Tag names start from the cell combo box select the start place to read tag names and their values i e specify a cell which is the start for tag names If the table is vertical select the first left cell of the row which has tag names Then EDI driver will know that all other tag names are located to the right of that cell If the table is horizontal select the first top cell of the column which has tag names Then EDI driver will Know that all other tag names are located below that cell The EDI engine will assume that all values are started just next to the corresponding tag name If any tag name cell is empty its data block will be ignored Single Tags Definition After defining how data will be import
104. hda y E Coumn2 59 Step data e Show Row Index E Column 58 Step start time Select this menu to display a row a a incrementing number from 1 2 in the Footer column oe l Step start time Sort inc Ascending order Descending order Select this menu to insert the start time of each step period for each row of the table osteoid esate Example If you define a table from 12 00 a until 15 00 with 1 hour for each step row Tite Table Name nn i then Step start time will display 12 00 13 00 EP Style 14 00 for 3 rows of the output table ie IB zg U e Step end time ii Text g OF Color Select this menu to insert the end time of each Footer io O u step period for each row of the table i Example If you define a table from 12 00 Uat Roma from Start prin 25 E until 15 00 with 1 hour for each step row a mis Sn then Step end time will display 13 00 14 00 10 mne PRESTO 15 00 for 3 rows of the output table e Step data oK Cancel 180 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Select this menu to define the statistical calculation for the selected column When you select this menu the Data Definition dialog window will be opened It is totally identical to the Single Data Object Definition window and is described in details in the Single Data Object section NOTE The only difference between the Single Data Object Definition and the Step Table Data Definition window is that in the Step Table Data Defini
105. if a user clicks on the Edit project users command button in the User Management section of the Project ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar or on the vertical toolbar either in the Dream Report Designer Studio or Logger Studio menu see pic below i 2 Home Connectivity Project Web Elements Tools Runtime aB OU iY EN General Data Base Web Set Log Hotbackup Localization Tag Project Parameters ersion Definition configuration Paths File configuration Dictionary Definition control Project Settings User Management The Edit project users option enables to change user access to different project modules at any stage of the project report generation NOTE Edit project users option will be enabled only if you have Full Administrator Rights i e the right to modify existing users and their properties as well as to create new users This access is usually given to project administrators please see Full Administrator Rights option in the User Group Authorization section 59 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Users and Groups In the Users and Groups section you can create users and user groups The left and the central parts of the dialog box contain Users definition and the right part contains Users Groups definition List of Users User Information When you add a user you fill in the user name its password and password confirmation set up the user s preferred language and expiration date as an option User Author
106. in the CSV subfolder of the Open communication protocols folder of the Select Data Source Type section please see the picture below Camm n Laa Wirard Select Dats Source Typs Configure Dnes for Selected Soue Delned Dras Lit H irtena EER pE ordenan Dive Logical Hame Aspenlech Denver Logana Marre Wiri Diner communication prohocok Cow Data add E O0BC_Alerm HHE BACret i BBPODeC_dsts HE csv Configu H Sim_Alam E TELTE fie il 7 i H iin Aea A Alums mi CSM hes B Exod Data lmpot reaime values A PU reeHime values A Modbus TCPIP AS 232 450 HE ODBC 4 OLE DE i ORC A HMF ahima valez i Cieri BE Senere 2 9 F nihan Dats Soucs Desceapion Tag values im CSV files CE ie Then button Configure will become enabled Click on Configure button and the following CSV Text Data Access driver configuration window will be opened please see the picture below era CSV Text Data Access Configuration greann n Data Fills locaton Select Folder to Locate Files Static data files names separated by for example 1 4243 File Extension Civ Delete File After Processing File Access Configuration Conmection to Data Files File Structure Connection Status i Simple Database Connect Coloumn tem re 5 Use File name as ltem name ee ee Dats Access Configuration Data Debmiter ltem Name x Text Qualifiers ltem Value Timestamp Format 7 Select Timestamp Type dd mm yy H M 5 Data Select Custom b Timestamp Fo
107. inc Eron m put configuration Operator Az Text D5 p Timestamp format in data biod Time Time format hhonmzsg Dates format Od aM yee meamna chart ron the cell A 5 Date is poed in the cell Boe i Tay names start fom the cell g In the Read data from Excel file s from section please select a specific file with the extension xls or XIsx Then the EDI driver will periodically check the timestamp of the modification of that selected file with the period defined below As soon as the file modification timestamp has been changed the driver will read file data and all new values will be archived into the database If you have entered the folder name but not the file name the driver will periodically scan for the entire folder and keep the list of the last processed files and their modification timestamp As soon as a new file has been found or the modification timestamp of any existing file has been changed to a newer one the driver will process all these files and all new data will be archived into the standard Dream Report database Check box Including subfolders will be enabled only if the edit box with the file folder name contains a folder name f you have entered only a file name this check box will be disabled If this check box is enabled then EDI driver will check not only all files in the selected folder but also in all subfolders located under t
108. into a log file should be very very close to the time of the occurrence of the event recorded If Scientific notation option is selected then the result will be displayed as scientific format e g if the result is 290472 00 then displayed result in scientific notation will be 2 9e5 The number of digits after the decimal point will depend on the value defined in the Decimal precision combo box which is in the same window above lf Engineering notation option is selected then the result will be displayed in the engineering representation format The engineering representation format is very similar to the scientific format with the difference that the power value is always multiple of three e g if the result is 290472 00 then the displayed result in the engineering notation will be 290e3 and the same result in scientific representation will be 2 9e5 The number of displayed values after the decimal point depends on the decimal precision defined in this object 153 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd lf Display as Widget option is selected to the right of this combo box a new button Configure will appear When a user clicks on this button the following configuration dialog box will be opened Widget configuration dialog Available Widgets Widget Configuration ne Scale Appearance enm Minimum Maximum E Show Units Ene Oo 100 Temperature C ki P 5 7 Main Division E Show Title inear Indicator 1
109. item tag group f the radio button Dream Report History is enabled then the Select Data Items dialog box will contain a list of data access drivers defined in the project Ifthe radio button External History Server is enabled the Select Data Items dialog box will contain a list of history access drivers defined in the project The left list box of that window will contain a complete list of available items and the right list box will contain a list of items selected for the entire group Items Filter enables users to easily find an item in a list As soon as a prefix is entered the list will be automatically filtered by the prefix Use an asterisk as a wildcard character NOTE If you select Dream Report History then you will be prompted to select a data item only from the list of data items defined in one or more logging groups within the Dream Report logger If you select External History Server then you will be prompted to select a data item from the list of all available items within the selected history source Click Next to go to the next step of project creation Click Back to go one step back to re configure or check project configuration Click Close to exit Project Wizard without any operation performed Object Selection This step of the project creation enables a user to select the types of dynamic objects that will display the data in the report In the Reports Objects Selection window please see pic below
110. learn more about report configuration and or report automatic generation and distribution please refer to the Report Settings section Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd System Requirements Dream Report is professional software for industrial automation for real time data and alarm acquisition logging to the database as well as data analysis and advanced reporting based on Dream Report database or any other external history data server To learn how to configure data logging please refer to the Logger Studio section To learn more about database configuration and maintenance please refer to the Database Configuration section To learn more about report graphical design please refer to the Designer Studio section To learn more about report configuration and or report automatic generation and distribution please refer to the Report Settings section Minimum System Requirements CPU Duo Core 1 6 GHz RAM 2Gb HDD 350Mb for installation minimum Video adapter No requirements Network adapter No requirements Monitor Resolution 1024x768 Operating systems supported Windows XP Professional Edition web portal requires Service Pack 3 and higher Windows 2003 Server incl R2 web portal requires Service Pack 2 Windows 2008 Server incl R2 any SP and 32 bit and 64 bit Windows Vista web portal requires Service Pack 1 and higher Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit with and without SP1 Windows 8 Professional
111. logged For details on how to define an item group please go to the Item Group Definition section 4 Define record rate and record conditions in the corresponding dialog boxes for details please go to the Logging Schedule and Log on Condition sections For the record rate please select the On Update option 5 As soon as the item group has been added to the Logger studio the data items will be logged into the Dream Report database on the conditions defined Transferring CSV Text based project to another computer Transfer of the Dream Report project which is based on CSV Text converter has to be done in 3 simple steps 1 Copy Dream Report project to the destination computer 297 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd 2 Copy subfolder CSVCFG from lt Program Files gt ODS Dream Report System directory This directory includes configuration XML files that were defined in project 3 Ensure that the location of the CSV Text files is the same as it has been defined on the computer where the project has been developed CSV Text Driver Alarms Dream Report includes CSV Text drivers for data and alarms CSV Text Alarm Client Alarms in CSV files driver enables transferring alarms from CSV ASCI files generated by industrial equipment like PLCs RTUs etc to Dream Report database CSV driver provides automated browse of alarms and their automated periodical extraction from any type of CSV Text files To add this driver to
112. not bigger than 100Kb The quality of the generated report won t be affected Using Symbol Factory in Dream Report Design Ocean Data Systems being in partnership with Software Toolbox allows Dream Report users to add to the designed reports a variety of animated objects from Software Toolbox Symbol Factory a library of over 3 600 industrial and manufacturing objects For details please visit http www symbolfactory net 112 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Background Dream Report supports setting a background image or color To define background click on the Set background button on the Edit toolbar in the Report Designer Studio Drawing When the button is clicked the Background dialog box will be opened Background Fa OSet background colour Set background picture C Program Files O0S 0ream Report Clip rt Only For Current Page ae Cea The Set Background Color option will set the background color selected in the color selection combo box The Set Background Picture option will set a background from an image file selected using Browse button or by typing a file path and name directly in the edit box The check box Only for Current Page defines whether the background will be applied to all pages of the report or only applied for the current page Text Object This object allows users to add static text to a report e Add New Text Object When a user selects a text object in the
113. ods_ rpp_param_list gt lt ods_rpp_document gt NOTE For details on the dynamic tokens used in Dream Report please see the List of Dynamic Tokens The Query Result section defines how the result of the SQL command will influence report generation There are 4 possible options here List of tags If this option is checked then the content of the specified column of the SQL query result will be considered as a tag list for report objects If this option is unchecked then all other three options below will be unchecked automatically Three options below make sense only in connection with the tag list Units If this option is checked then the content of the specified column of the SQL query result will be considered as a unit for the corresponding tag from received tag list Minimum value If this option is checked then the content of the specified column of the SQL query result will be considered as a minimum value for the corresponding tag from the received tag list This minimum value will be used for a chart Y scale setting for that tag Maximum value If this option is checked then the content of the specified column of the SQL query result will be considered as a maximum value for the corresponding tag from the received tag list This maximum value will be used for a chart Y scale setting for that tag If all check boxes in Query result are unchecked then the SQL command will be executed and its result will be ignored
114. of the existing Dream Report installation by a new one After completion of the installation process it is strongly recommended to restart your PC 3 Loading the project Load the existing project with a newer product version 4 2 from DREAM REPORT STUDIO You will get the warning message Are you sure you want to perform an upgrade of the project Click Yes NOTE Please note that since that moment you cannot downgrade the project to the previous Dream Report version Therefore ensure to back up your project just before performing the upgrade operation 4 Web Portal upgrade If you perform the upgrade of your project to Dream Report version 4 2 it is required to do a web portal manual update if it s used in the project To do the Dream Report web portal update take the following steps a Go to the project Web directory and delete the Settings config file b Open Project Settings Web Configuration Select all required web portal elements which you are willing to include into the Dream Report web portal c Press Configure IIS button NOTE If you are running Windows Vista Window 7 or Windows 2008 server before configuration of IIS please ensure that the following components are installed in Windows Features Internet Information Services 13 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd G Windows Features Turn Windows features on or off To turn a feature on select its check box To tum a feature o
115. opened where user can select any single file no filter by extension and as soon as the file has been selected it will be transferred to the server A window with a progress bar and the Cancel button will be displayed until the operation is completed The maximum size of an uploaded file is 51200kB 233 NY Report and Page Templates Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Page Templates Page template allows users to create page templates that can be easily reused within reports A page template is similar to the headers and footers of a page in other software It allows a user to create a template with a common visual layout for every report page A page template will save all static objects including images pictures backgrounds static drawings static text and some dynamic objects such as page number dynamic text and date time If a user will save any existing report page as a template all static objects will be saved and all dynamic statistic and analytic objects will be ignored In order to save the current page as a template click the right mouse button on the context menu on report in the report list You can also click on the command button Page Template on the Home ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar in the Report Designer Studio see pic below f C lS Home Connectivity Project Web Elements Arial Eui E i Insert iB Z 33 Copy Object 74 Paste Object Cut late New Page C
116. operation has been completed successfully the report layout will be reloaded exactly as in the version selected version 5 and the Current Version combo box will display number 5 If a user wants to add comments to his reports he will have to enter them manually in the Version comment box If a user enables the check box Enable user comments in the Version Control dialog box each time the report is saved the following window will pop up User Comments sd It will be empty and the Save button will be disabled A user will have to enter the version comment otherwise he will not be able to continue The comments entered will be logged into the same audit trail database and will be attached to the new report version number If this check box is not checked no comments will be saved In order to see the list of all report versions with the corresponding comments you can do the following 1 Create DSN pointing to the ProjectCfg mdb file of the project 2 Select ODBC historical values driver in Dream Report and choose VC_VersionsHistory table 3 Create an item table with version numbers and comments VERSION CONTROL TIP While doing modifications to the project if those modifications for some reason haven t passed validation by end user the SI can leave the running project as it has been validated by end user rolling it back to the validated project version and then roll forward to the latest version of the project in or
117. please see the pic below Combo Box Configuration Object name De Fault Value Assign Selection to Tag Producton_1 Feabject1 D Real Time tem HDA tem Data Source Display Data from ODBC data Manual Values F Mult selection tem Name l Bath _ID 8ath ID Data Configuration Send Result To Tank 2 Tank 3 Tank 4 Timestamp ste Time Flow_data_time_1 ii Flow_data_tme_1 7 This Combo Bax is Obligatory F visible in PDF Add Def Value lt Not spedfied gt Combo Box Object will display entered values in the same order as they have been entered in the Combo Box Configuration dialog box without doing any sorting 221 NY e SQL Query data display In the Data Configuration section user has to select the DSN see explanations below and specify the SQL Query which will be launched at the report start and the query result will be displayed in the combo box please see the pic below Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Combo Boo Configuration i Object name Default Value Assign Selectan to Tag Production 1 Feobject 1 Real Time ltem HDA liem Daia Source Display Data from ODBC _d ata SQL Query w PMut selection hem Name A Baich _IDBaih _D Data Configuration Send Result To Select DIH Process JE SQL Query SELECT Tank1 Tank2 Tank3 FROM Tabie i Timestamp Dabe Time Flow _data_ me_i Flow_date tme_i lt This Combo Box b Obligatory J Vieible in POF Add Def Value Hot speci
118. please see the picture below Connection Status Update Checkup Rate 30 Data Delimiter Text Qualifiers Timestamp Format Settings Dream Report CSV Text driver can preset certain timestamp formats that users can specify Then CSV files will be based on the format defined please see the picture below 293 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Timestamp Format dd rorn ypy Ea dd mm yyy dd mmiyyyy H ed 5 Milizeconds Select Timestamp Type Select Custom Timestamp Format UTC Time format NOTE The Milliseconds option is similar to the one without delimiter 11968585609 see the 2nd option of defining milliseconds in CSV files in Dream Report CSV driver in the Custom Date and Time Format section The Seconds and Mili option corresponds to the seconds and milliseconds separated by delimiter e g 1196858560 968 Custom Date and Time Format If timestamp format used in CSV Text files doesn t exist in the predefined list in the Timestamp Format Settings section users can select Custom option and define their own format which will correspond to the CSV files defined please see the picture below Timestamp Format Select Timestamp Type Custom F select Custom Sede ZH ZM ES BS Timestamp Format UTC Time format It does not need to be in a human recognizable format For example a date passed as 02 1999 9 is acceptable even though it looks ambiguous without the context
119. problem with its upgrade may occur due to the incorrect functioning of HASP driver currently installed on the computer where user tries to run upgrade on Dream Report USB plug If this is the case please do the following 1 Unplug the key 2 Uninstall the existing HASP driver as follows a Run command line b Set path to lt path to gt ODS Dream Report Utilities c Run the following command lt path to executable gt haspdinst exe kp r 3 Install the new version of HASP driver it is located in Utilities folder of Dream Report as follows a Run command line b Set path to lt path to gt ODS Dream Report Utilities c Run the following command lt path to executable gt haspdinst exe kp i 4 Plug the key again 17 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd 5 Repeat the LUT procedure and upgrade the USB key Project Wizard General Project Wizard enables users to create a turn key simple project in an easy way and then continue its development if needed in the Dream Report Designer studio in a normal working mode This functionality is implemented as a standalone exe file utility It can be launched e From the Windows start menu e When opening DR Designer Studio e By double clicking on the ProjectWizard exe file in the Dream Report Project System folder If a user launches Project Wizard from the Dream Report Studio when the DR studio is started the first small dialog window Open P
120. record from the list Add slam group x Genetal Recon Rate Record Petiod Record Time Schedule From 000000 S To 235959 3 Da Settings Mon Tue wed Thu w Sa Sun T From To 00 00 00 235959 Record Conditions OK i Cancel 101 Dream Report Alarm Group Definition Logging on Event Ocean Data Systems Ltd The comprehensive logging mechanism of Dream Report allows alarm logging being based on a pre defined event If the Enable Record on Condition check box will be checked then the alarms from the entire group will be logged only if a pre defined condition is true If the group logging schedule will be defined that data will be logged only when the logging period is active and the event is true If the group will have no schedule defined then data will always be logged when the condition is true When the check box Enable Record on Condition is enabled define the event 1 By clicking the browse button in the Select Data ltem dialog box that will appear user can select Data Source and ltem Name A data source can be selected in the upper combo box from the source list The lower combo box will have a complete list of data items from the selected source The user will have to select the source and data item for the event expression After an item name is selected select the condition sign from the combo box and enter a condition value in the edit box Any numeric can be ent
121. related to this dialog box please refer to the User Management section Data Base Definition If User Management is switched on in the entire project and Wab configuration the currently logged on user has no access to user definition pu window then all controls in User Authentication group R check box and a button will be disabled To enable it again please login with an appropriate user deste akash ecm using studio menu User Management gt Log in with Lini different user OK l Oa Apoy 45 N Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Internal Project Parameters IPP section enables to configure a set of pre defined internal variables for the project which can take data from report objects during report generation or from command lines When user will click on the button Configure Project Parameters the Internal Project Parameters Dialog window will be opened where user will be able to configure passing parameters for report generation For details please refer to the Project Parameters section of this manual NOTE New project can be also started by clicking on the DR Main Button in the upper left part of the Dream Report Designer Studio please see the picture below a Open Project New Project Save Project I Save Project As PF Print d d e By clicking on the DR Main Button in the Dream Report Designer Studio users can also perform the following operations with projects s
122. seconds back from the time of the report definition If the time period is defined in the relative mode then the time will be defined as follows during report generation the current time will be captured as the end time and the time offset will be deducted from it as the start time Example If the time is defined in relative mode as 00 10 00 hh mm ss then it will mean 10 minutes before report generation The Start and End of report period may have separate modes any of four possible e If you select the Batch based option then the following period definition control will appear Select ime penod option Batch based w Selecting Batch based pernod allows user to define all objects in the report comesponding to baich based time penod Babeh Energy Duration Mode court batches Last 2 2 Here you can select a batch definition which will be used to calculate the period for your object The Batch combo box will contain a list of previously defined batch definitions If you need to edit that list click on the browse button and the Batch definition window will be opened where you can edit the existing batch definitions Batch definition is described in detail in the Batch Definition section Then after selecting a batch definition select the mode and the batch count Last batch means the most recently completed batch ID i e at the time of the report generation it has valid start time and end time Curre
123. section login and password for the connection for the selected OPC server Login and password will be set and saved separately for the main and backup servers 310 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd NOTE If OPC server definition contains login and password the OPC browser and client will use it every time when connecting to the OPC server If no login and password is defined then the OPC browser and the client will be connecting to the server as usual in anonymous mode In the Computer Name field specify the name of the PC where OPC server is running By default it is localhost which means a local PC If another PC in a network has to be specified click on Browse Network button and then select the needed computer name from a network In the Select Server section select an OPC server to which you would like to connect You can refresh server list from the specified PC by clicking on the button Refresh Server Lisi It will get a list of OPC servers installed on the specified PC and update the list of servers in the combo box When the OPC server is selected click the button Test Connection to test communication between Dream Report OPC client and your OPC server This procedure of the OPC DeltaV driver configuration is the same for all types of OPC DeltaV drivers OPC DeltaV real time values OPC DeltaV real time alarms OPC DeltaV historical values OPC DeltaV historical alarms NOTES e If you need to config
124. select which Edt Ust ee ee history type will be used to extract data from Dream Jelly correction factor for all tem values Report History or External History Server use e g 1000 To add data items to the Selected List table click ADF to be used on the Edit List button and the Select Data Items Fiter_1 w fians dialog window will be opened ibe Rares e lf Dream Report History radio button will B Logged Value Moving Avian be enabled then the combo box Select we PREEN A Data Source will contain a list of data access drivers defined in the project e f External History Server will be Define time period selected the Select Data Source combo Fixed Period s box will contain a list of history access Pr an day s drivers defined in the project etait Dak aca me In Select Data Source and Available Data Items Duration Day Time select the source and item from which Dream Report i H hour s gt 1 00 00 00 will calculate values and add them to the list Data source name and data item name of the selected tags will appear in the Selected List table Popewance Advanced SQL Condition lf a user will enable Column ltem orientation check aon box then the table columns will display item values from the selected list Apply correction factor for all item values enables adding simple expression to an item table If a user needs to display item table on item s with the correction factor then first all values
125. separately as Historical values in Review database Historical alarms messages in Review database or Real time batch monitor Real time batch monitor driver This driver can periodically query Review database detect start of a new batch or end of currently running batch and assign a corresponding pre defined value to the logical data point according to the event type e g value 0 if a new batch is started and value 1 if the actual batch is ended 333 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd lf a user has selected the Real time batch monitor driver from the Eurotherm folder in the Select Data Source Type section of the Communication Configuration Wizard and clicks on the button Configure then the Eurotherm data access driver configuration window will be opened Eurotherm data access diver configuration gt Select database type Select database location Use Review database from default location Use Review database from custom location _ 1 Data access parameters Value For batch start event Value For batch end event 1 i Checkup Frequency period 20 seconds In the Select database location section user will have to select whether the default Review database e g C Program files Eurotherm Review Review erv or any other Review custom database will be used for connection If a user selects option Use Review database from custom location then the browse button will become enabled and a us
126. succeeds the message box Test connection succeeded will pop up If test connection to the main station fails the message box Jest connection failed will pop up Test connection is done not as a regular ping check on the TCP IP level To have test connection succeeded the backup station will send a TCP IP request to the main station The main station must accept the request and send the appropriate response which has to be received by the backup station Only then the backup station will acknowledge that the main station is up If it has failed please check if you can see the main node PC in your Windows network using Windows explorer and if needed check your firewall settings Hotbackup connection check uses port 57034 on both the main and the backup stations sides This port should normally be allowed by Windows when a user unblocks runtime during its first launch But if the connection test fails it is highly recommended to check it As soon as you have defined this node as a backup you have General Data Base Configuration Web configuration Project Paths Log Fie Holbackup Configuration Hotbackup node configuration V This node is working in a hotbackup mode Set the IP address PC name where the main node is running 005 001 Test connection Checkup rate also to specify the Checkup rate It must be a positive non zero number between 1 to 86400 which means each time interval in seconds when this l
127. sunday a s 45 In this sample step table the N A value is replaced by 2 the last available value before N A NOTE The last valid step value which will be displayed instead of N A value must be available in the range of the existing values of this Step table i e it should be present among the values existing inside the table Otherwise it will display N A e f Show Next Value option is selected then the next valid step value will be displayed instead of N A value Please see an example below In this sample step table the N A value is replaced by 3 the next available value after N A Special mark If the step value is not real original but is last or next available then such a cell will have a small red mark in the cell corner like on the picture below Day Min Max Ave _ Monday a 2 15 Tuesday 2 3 25 Wednesday 3 a 35 thursday 3 f a a5 Friday 3 4 ss Saturday 3 f a a5 Sunday 4 s5 4s NOTE For footer and inter column calculation if cells have values which are not real values but last or next available all the calculation is done using those values regardless to their nature and origin 183 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd SQL Query Table SQL Query Table is an object that allows you to connect to any ODBC compatible database and display data from it in a report
128. the Tools ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar either in the Dream Report Logger Studio or Dream Report Designer Studio menu see pic below Fr 4 Home Connectivity Project Web Elements Tools Runtime 6G amp amp Tag Setpoint analysis Custom Virtual Report Report UHH Dictionary configuration Archive Import Instances filters Import Tok Tools When any of the configuration windows of either SQL table or SQL Query data display option in Combo box objects or SQL Query statistical function in Single Data objects is opened then the DSN selection combo box will be replaced by the following standard control Process_ DSN By default this control will be empty Combo box will NOT have the list of ALL DSNs available in the system It will only display the list of project DSNs configured in the DSN Manager To open DSN Manager user will have to click on the browse button The DSN Manager dialog window will be opened please see the pic below DSA Manager x DSH dehniton name Use OSH Login Password Batch test_betch data hda 7 Sa e IT Test Add DSN add Delete Mame Lise OSN Login Process OSN Stable_Process admin tst batch data hda Process Pr cece ox Cna In the DSN definition name section user will have to define a unique logical name which will be used in further work with that DSN within the project Use DSN combo box will be filled with
129. the list of other combo boxes defined in this report and user can select any of them As soon as any selection has been done in this combo box in real time the selected child combo box data will be refreshed In the Timestamp section user can define timestamp Date and Time for the defined entered values If check box This combo box is obligatory is checked then selecting a value from this combo box is required for successful report validation If a user will not select any value he will not be able to complete the report If this check box is checked then a red mark will be displayed to the left from the combo box and as soon as a user selects any value from the combo box the will change its color to green If check box Add Default Value lt Not specified gt is checked then the combo box will be filled with all values according to its data configuration and one more entry lt Not specified gt will be entered in addition The Visible in PDF option controls whether this Combo Box object will be displayed in the generated PDF report or not 227 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Action Button Action Button is a dynamic interactive object which enables users to do a pre defined action and is available ONLY in WEB reports please also see Manual Data Entry section To add this object click on the command button Action Button on the Web Elements ribbon icon on the horizontal toolb
130. the project please select Alarms in CSV files driver in the CSV subfolder of the Open communication protocols folder of the Select Data Source Type section please see the picture below Communication Conigraion Wizard w Tead Dala Souce Type i n r 5 Configure Dres for Selected Source Debned Cirer List lnleing ae Deere Logical Mame 4 Wonders J EJ Apene Driver Logica Mame l EER 34 Open communication protocols CSV Aami Add E OEC Alam HE BACre EE Lov Al z r l onfyure E 5 i T Fd Tag vaks mnESY hies E ga Hagl B Alaans r LSY bks E Eil Dats lmg eara akt ME OFC eshim vake B Hobi TERAP R534 ASO OCRE SHHF sime values a Citect Sement 27 Frm Dats Sours Desnipion Alena in CSM fies L O Then button Configure will become enabled Click on Configure button and the following CSV Text Alarm Client driver configuration window will be opened please see the picture below 298 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd CSV Text Alarm Client Configuration 9 Alam File s Location Select Folder to locate Alarm Files C MCSV_project cey_alanned Specify Stabe File Name s names senareted by for example H F2 File Extension cry Delete File After Processing File Format Configuration iii Stat Date Column Start Time Column ad Checkup Rate 3600 Ack Date Cokan Ack Time Column Dats Delimiter End Date Column End Tine Column Text Qualifier
131. thus enabling database archiving all configuration dialog controls will also become enabled Database Archiving Configuration To configure database archiving all configuration dialog controls need to be defined as explained below Maximum age of data which you want to keep in the main database section enables to define maximum data age to be kept in the project main database 257 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd In the edit box please enter any unsigned integer number between 0 and 5000 and in the combo box with time units select one of the following entries Day s Month s or Year s The default value is 1 year s Archive aged data every section enables to select frequency and schedule of performing archiving operation In the edit box please enter any unsigned integer number between O to 5000 and in the combo box with time units select one of the following entries Day s Month s or Year s The default value is every 1 month s The default date is 1 Day When any of the time units has been selected you can define schedule for the performance of archiving operation e lf in the time unit combo box the Day s option is selected then in the time picker edit box see the picture below you can select time hour and minutes when every selected number of days the archiving operation will be performed Archive aged data every i day s Every 11 11 31aM E
132. time Ifthe absolute option is selected then specify the calendar date and time f the relative option is selected then specify the time offset i e a number of days or hours minutes and seconds back from the time of the report definition If the time period is defined in the relative mode then the time will be defined as follows during report generation the current time will be captured as the end time and the time offset will be deducted from it as the start time Example If the time is defined in relative mode as 00 10 00 hh mm ss then it will mean 10 minutes before report generation The Siart and End of period may have separate modes any of four possible e If you select the Batch based option then the following period definition control will appear Time Definition Batch based k Batch Tank 1 x Duration Mode count batches Last al lt E lt Here you can select a batch definition which will be used to calculate the period for your object The Batch combo box will contain a list of previously defined batch definitions If you need to edit that list click on the browse button and the Batch definition window will be opened where you can edit the existing batch definitions Batch definition is described in detail in the Batch Definition section Then after selecting a batch definition select the mode Last Current and the batch count e Last batch means the most recently completed batch ID i e
133. to the next step of project creation Click Back to go one step back to re configure or check project configuration Click Close to exit Project Wizard without any operation performed Page layout design This step allows users to create a page template with a common visual layout for every report page A page template will save all static objects including images pictures backgrounds static drawings static text and some dynamic objects such as page number dynamic text and date time The Reports Page Design window has a number of options to create a page template for the report cl Lreaing Vizard Project Name In this Section you can create a visual template for your report pages CI Select ating report bemplate ere EI vant to une a background picture Name z a Conmesctvaty i went bo edd a logo or a pachure Tita for reponi page want to ocd page rumber ank bo edd bietan of report generation User can select one of the 2 ways to use a page template in the report e Select existing report template e Iwill design report myself lf will design report myself radio button is enabled please create a report template yourself by selecting the proper settings in the Reports Page Design dialog window see pic above e want to use a background picture option enables to set a background image for the report pages Button Selec will open a standard Windows Open File dialog box where a user can select a
134. toolbar or from the menu in the Report Designer Studio left click on the workspace and drag the mee mouse to mark the boundaries of the text area and then release the mouse button When inserted the text box will contain the word TEXT which can be replaced by typing the desired text As soon as the text has been entered press ENTER or click on the workspace outside the text rectangle and the text will be accepted t Drawing e Edit Existing Text Object 113 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd To edit the properties of the text click on the text again and the boundary rectangle will be shown You can change the text properties e g font color style size alignment background color or border color if any To edit the text double click on the text and the text box will be opened and available for editing A a The font size can be increased or decreased by 1 point size using the appropriate toolbars The text string can be aligned within the text box by the right or left edge or centered using the appropriate buttons on the alignment toolbar Text Object Manipulation w jasc i E E F Ea Dream Report can automatically number paragraphs or mark paragraphs with bullets Use the indent outdent buttons to change the level of indentation for each paragraph within the text box Dream Report also supports changing the direction of the text The default direction of the text is l
135. tree from one level to another by just dragging them with a mouse NOTE New report can be also configured by clicking on the DR Main Button in the upper left part of the Dream Report Designer Studio please see the picture below New Report gt F New Report m ke a Open Project E New Project Save Project I Save Project As P Print j Exit 71 Dream Report Report Name Format Ocean Data Systems Ltd The Report Name Format dialog box defines how file names for an output file are generated The report file naming rule will be applied both to PDF and Excel report files The Report filename mask can be any combination of 4 types of components All components defined in a filename mask should be separated by The maximum number of characters for filename mask is 256 characters The available file name component types are Static text You can enter any text strings in any part of a mask Each string should be included in e g text my report name Report Instance Name In this section a user has 2 options Report name the following string will be added to the filename mask s ReportName and during report generation it will be replaced by report name Instance name the following string will be added to the filename mask s lInstanceName and during report generation it will be replaced by the report instance name for which this report file was generated If the fi
136. use Dream Report web portal please click No exit Dream Report installation install IIS and after that install Dream Report If you have installed Dream Report without the web portal and afterwards you have installed IIS and you wish to start to use the Dream Report web portal you have to uninstall Dream Report and then install it again During new installation Dream Report installation procedure will recognize that IIS is installed and then all relevant Web components will be installed Additional installed components OPC Core Components and Visual C Runtime During installation of Dream Report one of Dream Report installation wizard sections is Select installation components In this section you will see a tree of components available for installation including Dream Report designer studio Communication drivers and others This section also has two custom components in that list OPC Core Component and Visual C 2005 Runtime Redistributable Please check why and when you may need them Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd OPC Core Component This is an official patch redistributable from the OPC Foundation lt re installs all necessary Windows components needed for proper operation of OPC In many cases strange OPC operating problems can be solved just by installing this component If you do not use OPC DA AE HDA in your Dream Report projects then the Installation of these components is not required Visual C Runtime
137. user will have to enter the number of hours minutes seconds which will be considered as a time period unit Then the entire time period of the object will be divided into equal parts where the length of each will be equal to the entered one The defined period length has to be only non zero and positive Calculation The calculation will be done according the formula below Where AF R iF 1E at aA ew e Mi teeta po AH Ty the mean kinetic temperature in K AH the heat of activation 83 144kJ mole R the universal gas constant 6 3144 10 3kJ mole K Ti the high temperature in K in interval 1 Ty the low temperature in K in interval 1 Thy the high temperature in K in interval n Ta the low temperature in K in interval n n the total number of samples in the calculation NOTE 83 144 kKJoules mol is an average value based upon many common organic reactions Calculation methodology K2 If the option By number of samples has been selected Dream Report will assume that one period is taken into account Start of that period will correspond to the start time of that object definition Timestamp of the last considered value point will be taken as the end of the period The minimum the maximum values and all the Mean Kinetic Temperature calculation will be taken for that period described above regardless of the end of the period in object definition If the number of received values from the da
138. using web services communication and get access to real time data real time alarms and historical data of PcVue running project To configure PcVue drivers first open the Communication Configuration Wizard dialog window In the Arc Informatique folder please select the PcVue driver you need from the Select data source type section and click on Configure button Communication Configuration Wizard x Tee aos ie Configure Drives for Selected Source Defined Durvers List ASpanbech Drver Logical Mame Open commuricalion protocol p Cieni Driver Logical Mame BB Analytics i Siemens Pevue HDS Theme Add dai 4 Eurothesm W ooec i ea Loptez Configure Ter BB wee Mitsubishi H E Emerson AP Pus HDS heme Feus HOS Alame Pee rabine values using Web Ser Pous rabine aans sku Web Ser Poue hishoical values using Web Ser Poue hishonical alama using eb Ser Date Souee Descnphon PeVue AOS Iheme NOTE In Dream Report version 3 43 the PcVue Web Services driver had one driver instance for real time data historical data and alarms configuration Now in this new version of Dream Report the PcVue Web Services driver has four driver instances and should be configured separately as PcVue real time values using Web Services PcVue real time alarms using Web Services PcVue historical values using Web Services or PcVue historical alarms using Web Services 340 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd PcVue HDS It
139. what format the report will be generated in and how and to whom it will be distributed Web option will be enabled only if the current license has web portal option enabled Otherwise Automatic Statistica Tat BSacteriolooical Report Sa Graphe Batch Info Report Satch Trend Charts Osta Tables Demo Batch Report Energy Effoency Repor Report Time Defintion Generate Repot On Evert Report File Format Report Target Page Format Web Page Size Ad Y POF Adobe Acobet the Web target option will be by default disabled If syrerne E ae Orientation a user currently doesn t have a web portal option GW Monthly Operating F eral eee but he will enable the Web format he will get a ae ads warning message box saying that using web portal Pe Graphs ae A in a runtime will require web license option enabled E irona For details please see Web Portal section of this Report Producton Jie manual aN SS Setpomt Anslyas If the PDF Adobe Acrobat option is checked then sagir Open report fle after generation the report will be generated in a file of PDF format Step Tables F POF Eveni which can be opened and viewed by Adobe Acrobat beaker raat Reader We recommend using Adobe Acrobat Widgets Reader version 8 0 or higher for the best performance The report file name will be set based on the Report Name Format section RA If a user clicks on the Settings button just below the Macros PDF check box the Advanced PDF Security User Aasthortzat
140. where each report will be printed each time it is generated Or select multiple printers by using Ctrl select combination For details please go to the Printer Selection section Click Next to go to the next step of project creation Click Back to go one step back to re configure or check project configuration Click Close to exit Project Wizard without any operation performed Time Period This step enables to define default time period for reporting statistical objects The Reporis Time Period window has a combo box with 3 time period selection options Fixed calendar time Relative or absolute date time and Batch based period if Dream Report Project Creating Wizard ER Pisase select the time period which you need to set for report calculation oer This time period will be set as the default time period for all fstcal objects in thes project Afterwards you can change it at any time mipan Gueal a eta etc is co workspace Project Name Connectity Data Archiving Batch Definition Select time period option Fined Period Selecting Fixed Calendar Time mode allows user to define all objects in the report based on predefined fixed penod i e last 1 day will correspond to penod of complete past day from midnight W midnight 36 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd e If you select Fixed calendar time from the Select time period option combo box you will have another combo box from whi
141. will be filled with a list of all available sources After selecting a data source the combo box Select Data Item will be filled with a list of all available items from the selected data source 34 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Items Filter enables users to easily find an item in a list AS soon as a prefix is entered the list will be automatically filtered by the prefix Use an asterisk as a wildcard character The Condition value can be any number in the range from 65535 00 to 65535 00 The symbol must be used as the decimal separator Click Next to go to the next step of project creation Click Back to go one step back to re configure or check project configuration Click Close to exit Project Wizard without any operation performed Distribution The Reports Distribution section defines working with report files please see pic below Report Format By default reports will be generated in PDF format You can also configure output report files in MS Excel format using Designer Studio tools after completing this wizard Report file name Your report files will have the following filename rule Report name_Generation time pdf Report files will be copied into Report subfolder in your project folder You can modify that using Designer Studio tools Reports distribution You can automatically print the generated report or send it by email Please select and configure your report distribution
142. will be opened The Indicator Object Definition dialog window consists of 2 parts Data Definition and Appearance Data Definition lainsins chine defiating The Data Definition dialog enables users to create one or several indicator definitions and display Eidean Decine results accordingly iiia Diala Dairin E mig aari Dict Chepcaption Every indicator object can have but not necessary a name If a user wants he can type a name in the Object name edit box and this name can be then displayed on top of the object To the left of the Object name edit box there is a list with defined indicators As soon as a user aa oa creates a new indicator definition he will click on ms Add button and the definition will be added Every indicator definition has a logical name and will be added to the list by its name Any indicator definition can be deleted by clicking on Delete button a are Cocel 209 N Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd 210 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Create a new indicator ai i To create a new indicator a user has to enter a logical name for this indicator and then to select its Hrs Data Defriion Bwae Porter Nate type from the list of the defined indicators The Clecticty ve following dialog window will be opened The Pointer Type combo box will have 4 values 3 pre configured types and the custom one This combo box will have the following selecti
143. 1 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Wonderware OPC Driver Wonderware OPC driver of Dream Report has to be used to connect Dream Report to FS Gateway OPC Server which enables connectivity to the Application Server or other Wonderware product The Wonderware OPC driver is based on the OPC technology and is specially designed to work with FS Gateway OPC server with a limited number of concurrent OPC clients It s impossible to communicate with FS Gateway OPC server using regular OPC driver due to the following reason FS Gateway allows only 1 simultaneous OPC client connection and Dream Report can establish up to 3 client connections Designer studio 1 connection for tag browser and 1 connection for data access client Logger studio 1 connection for OPC Client to get value updates FS Gateway doesn t support simultaneous connection of 2 3 and more OPC Clients In order to adapt the OPC client of Dream Report to work normally with such OPC server this Wonderware OPC driver has been designed It s based on the regular OPC client with a modified mechanism of tag browsing and establishing connections to server As soon as you add the Wonderware OPC driver to your project the Studio will establish only 1 client connection for tag browsing only and the OPC client will not be loaded into the Studio During the first connection to FS Gateway tag browser will request and save the entire list of items from the OPC server into a text file in
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145. 23 e Spaces are accepted if they are at the start or end of the text or both Example ToNumber 123 or ToNumber 123 as well as ToNumber 123 or ToNumber 123 or TONumber 123 and ToNumber 123 will give a result of 123 and 123 e All non numerical characters inside the string result in a N A Example ToNumber 12 3 will give N A ToNumber 12A5 will give N A e The decimal sign must be to be converted N A otherwise Example ToNumber 12 5 will give 12 5 or 12 5 depending on Report Localization Settings ToNumber 12 5 will give N A even if user s PC regional settings are set to use the as the decimal separator Conditional calculations Expression object also allows doing conditional calculation i e set a condition and if condition is true use one calculation expression If condition is false use another calculation expression The format for such an expression is the following function if lt condition gt then return lt calculation expression 1 gt else return lt calculation expression 2 gt end end Example 1 function if f sdo1 lt f _sdo2 then return abc else return xyz end end Example 2 function if f sdo1 f sdo2 then return abc else return xyz end end NOTE For complete list of the conditional calculations and functions available in Expression Data Object please see the reference manual at http www lu
146. 4 Timestamp Tmesamo 43 gO l Tank3 Tank3 25 g User User 25 g p mm m en ee D Sotin Ascending order Descending order Font Properties Anal X 8 Tite Table Name Align Style D Columns B Text Line Color Back Color Header B 0 7 a k List Rows from Start Y Fit text to row width List Rows from End 29 Max Number of Rows OK Cra However SQL Query table parser has the limitation of SQL functions which it is able to recognize Please find below the list of supported and unsupported functions Supported and Unsupported Functions The following SQL statements actions and manipulations are not supported by SQL table UPDATE DELETE INSERT INTO CREATE DATABASE ALTER DATABASE CREATE TABLE ALTER TABLE DROP TABLE CREATE INDEX DROP INDEX OPENQUERY from InSQL syntax SQL Table also do not support JOIN or UNION however you can create a table like SELECT From Tbl1 Where lt condition gt SELECT DISTINCT column_name s From Tbl1 Where lt condition gt Operators Allowed in the WHERE section lt gt gt lt gt lt BETWEEN LIKE IN AND OR NOT IS Condition can also include select clause for example this query will also work well SELECT Timestamp User Temp1 FROM Batch Data WHERE Tempi gt SELECT AVG Temp1 FROM Batch_Data Supported functions SQL avg SQL count SQL first SQL last 187 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd SQL max SQL min SQL sum
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148. 43 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd At the final step of the Wizard project creation the button Create will complete Project Wizard create the entire project according to its definition and open the Dream Report Designer studio with that project eS Reo FTOECIU GT Teang v ad O oO O R Project Name r Your initial report design is complete Data Archming What do you want to do next Batch Definition Reports Mama Schedule Event Destribution Time Pernod Page Design Select tags Select Objects TEESE EK LE e f you click Back you will go one step back to re configure or check project configuration e If you click Close you will exit Project Wizard without any operation performed e If you click Create Project Wizard will close and the created project will be loaded into the Dream Report Studio This new project will be created in a specified folder with all project and report files according to the information already entered in the completed steps You can then continue this project development if needed in the Dream Report designer studio in a normal working mode If Project Wizard was launched when opening the Dream Report Designer Studio then when you click Create and Project Wizard closes Dream Report Designer Studio will start automatically with the project just created If Project Wizard was launched either from the Windows start menu or by double clic
149. 5510 60 900 30 15 65 OFS S529 rr Os 1050 40 50 po Lhb25 45 100 B0 1200 50 90 ETTEI Bg L200 37 50 51200 45 25 6 1 796 1 0 1235055 5 BB oe eh ocrorh oh o Meat at Wd Re Gh GG es ET Lt mas a cocpcoooKo e E g L 00 gi ro 1700 00 6 00 LF tQ 32005 Os Os Os hed z si i Ei ro ru red 6 0 00 00 700 n oO oO 4 0 70 o 0 0 Os Sooo EE TE tI EN EE PE HoH for P le Logging Data Item Values As soon as the data items have been defined a user should configure the conditions for recording these items into the Dream Report database To do this a user should 1 Open the Dream Report Logger Studio and either click on the command button Add Item Group on the Connectivity ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar in the Dream Report Logger Studio menu or right click on Add item group in the left top part of the Logger Studio and select Add item group from the context menu The Item Group Definition dialog box will be opened 2 In the Group Source combo box General dialog box select the Tag values in CSV files driver from which data items will be included into the group 3 The Add Items button will open a new dialog box Select Data Items containing the complete list of all data items which have been defined for the CSV Text Tag values driver They can be added or removed from the entire group Select data items that should be
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151. D _ Adi Maximum Command Timeout 120 Seconds Query Rest Fo Use Column 4 List of Tage 1 A Unite 2 V Mn Vake 3 7 4 m Macros User Authorization Apply or Report end time will be accepted only via Dynamic Report Generator If a report is generated by schedule or event and not by DRG then those input parameters will be empty If you select the Input parameter from file option please see the corresponding section below NOTE The following dynamic tokens can be used in Report Preprocessor gen Batchld This dynamic token will be replaced by ID of the batch Batch ID for which the report is generated gen ReportStartTime This dynamic token will be replaced by Report Start Time as configured in the dynamic generation settings gen ReportEndTime This dynamic token will be replaced by Report End Time as configured in the dynamic generation settings 84 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd file lt file_ name gt lt param_names This dynamic token will be replaced by the parameter value that will be found in the specified lt file name gt The file has to have a special format in order to be used in Report Preprocessor The special file format is lt ods_ rpp_ document ver 1 00 gt lt ods rpp_param_list gt lt ods_ rpp_ param name param1 value value1 gt lt ods rpp param name param2 value value2 gt lt ods_ rpp_param name param3 value value3 gt lt
152. Dictionary Virtual Report Instances Insert New Page Background Set As Background Modify Disable Delete Delete Current Page Grid Settings Dream Report Menu Report Settings 357 NY Web Manual Driver Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Dream Report includes Web Manual driver which enables connectivity to any external databases which support ODBC connectivity and have supported data structure To configure Web Manual driver first open the Internal folder of the Communication Configuration Wizard dialog window Salecl Dala Source Type Configure Dire for Selected Source Delined Crreers List rlennal gt A Anaiilica real time values Driver Logical Name 2 OBatch historical values Driver Logical Name Bi DreanFeport Lut a nial Add BB Energy H Process il i Fi c tt Configure ialah E H Wonderware BB Process_Setpoint Aspertech Scapa Open communication protocols Scapa 7 Citect 7 Siemens H Eurotherm Laylez H Mitsubishi Emeron H Are Informatique H Techno Trade let ier Data Sourcea Descriphor Yab manual dine Click on Configure button and the following dialog window will be opened Configure manual entry parameters x Manual parameter definition Hame Type Flow meter 1 Analog Flow meter i for plant 1 Mn Max 200 Name Type Min Max Flow meter 1 Analog oO 200 Flow meter 2 Boolean H 200 Flow meter 3 Tex
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154. ECU ce ee ee ee ene een meme mee eee 89 Pje GIAO oc caciecnn ste ceitennsiadicacdaeavaeadsmotaandieceincnseticenteees 193 Pie Graph Nama esien 193 VE E e EE E EOE A E EE 77 385 cacao seis sec cape E 77 Project configuraiton FIC ccccccsssssssseeeenssaesseneeennes 50 Project Configuration Fil S c cccccccssssssssssesssssseeeeeees 50 POETIN ee ere ee tes eee ere eee ere 158 Projeti SOMOS aspiriini 43 50 55 Protocol NAME ccccecternccrcawetesctecineciseueiesenceenseiacedleseaves 310 R Rate of Ch ang sictainaniersenanicasicaaitendinaniaaninatverdinaeanants 244 Rate of change after SCtDOINE ccscssesceneeneseeneons 244 Rate of change before S tPOIN 2 cccccceeseeereeee 244 F cord MOE sh casa sete icidl ue to vis dat barbeden dais aE 97 Record POO icsciccssascccenrensedsnianiesecvendetentaxieiesves 97 102 Record Time Schedule cccccecceeeceeceecceeceneeeees 97 102 POO IC sorcis ranen an ai taonavanencnsusinanenenecaeauianes 52 ice REE A EEEE ee ene eee T 48 Relative date ADSOlute time scssccccssseesecssnseseeseees 164 Relative date time is xcescceextancteeepvicesatbercleeaPticte ded ecieds 164 Replace existing report objects 2 2 cccc 001sseereeee 236 Repon WING cerradas aera 158 Report Name FICIG we ccissccsncicezessesceredsvadedxeviebaceendetens 158 Report OuUput Format siei eris esnie ie 77 Report SetlingS ereere rnnr e EER 5 6 66 Report Settings Generate Report on Event
155. Energy report is the object name Water Electricity are pointer names m3 kWh are pointer units with enabled display A B indicators on the right correspond to each of the pointers defined in the Appearance dialog box A B C D E grades on the left correspond to the indicator appearance 214 D Web Elements Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Timestamp Picker Timestamp Picker is a dynamic interactive object which enables users to select a timestamp for association with the entered values and is available ONLY in WEB reports please also see Manual Data Entry section To add this object click on the command button Timestamp Picker on the Web Elements ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar in the Dream Report Designer Studio menu see pic below a Home Draw a rectangle in the workspace where the output data will be displayed The following Timestamp Picker Configuration dialog box will be opened Timestamp Picker Configuration x Object name Flow_data_time_1 Default Value Format Date and Time Visible in PDF Object Name must be a unique logical name which will be used for each Timestamp Picker object in order to be able to reference any of those specific date time objects in the data entry objects 215 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Default Value allows users to configure which timestamp value this object will display as a default The Default Value combo box has the list of all Timestamp Picke
156. History and External History Server please see the pic below Combo Box Configuration x Object name Default Value Asaign Selection to Tag Production_1 Feobject1 Real Time bem a HDA Item Data Source Display Data from Onac data Show Data Source List E Multi selectian tem Hame C Batch _ID Bateh_ID Data Configuration Send Result Ta Dream Report Hetory External History Server Timestamp Daie Time Fiow_data_tme_1 Flow _data_tme_1 F This Combe Box is Obligatory visible in POF Add Def Value lt Not specified gt canei In a web report the web combo box will be filled with a list of data sources of the corresponding type e Show Tag List If this display option is selected its configuration will be the following Combo Boo Configuration x Object name Default Vale Assign Selection to Tag Production_1 Feobject1 Real Time tem HDA litem Data Source Display Data from ODBC _data Data Configuration Send Result To W Select Date Source below C Select Gate Source from another Combo box Display Data frome Dream Report History External History Server ODBC data Flow_date_tme_1 Flow This Combe Box b Obligatory Vieible in PDF M Add Bef Wahue Hot specdied gt cancel 224 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd The Data Configuration section will have 2 radio buttons Select Data Source below and Select Data Source fro
157. If string format matches the input string the function will work User has to make sure though that the input can be parsed in an unambiguous way The string 1999112 can be parsed using the Y m d format as 1999 1 12 1999 11 2 or even 19991 1 2 It is necessary to add appropriate separators to get reliable results Types of Custom Formats e a or A weekday name in English in the abbreviated form or the full name e b or B or h month name in English in the abbreviated form or the full name e C century with the year This format is recommended for use only if the format string also contains the y format e d or e day of the month as a decimal number range 1 through 31 Leading zeroes are permitted but not required D equivalent to mM Y od Yy F equivalent to Y m d which is the ISO 8601 date format H or k hour as a decimal number using 24 hour clock 00 through 23 l hour as a decimal number using 12 hour clock 01 through 12 j day of the year as a decimal number range 1 through 366 Leading zeroes are permitted but not required m month as a decimal number range 1 through 12 Leading zeroes are permitted but not required M minute as a decimal number range 0 through 59 Leading zeroes are permitted but not required n or Yt matches any white space p AM or PM This format is not useful unless l or l are also used r complete time using the AM PM format of the current location
158. It provides access to real time data of all standard data objects It also provides access to BACnet alarms and BACnet native history trend objects and generating reports directly from it ODBC driver Provides automated access to any automation open database which supports ODBC interface e g SQL Server Oracle MySQL MS Access etc Easy configuration interface is provided Detailed description can be found in the section ODBC Driver OLE DB driver Provides automated access to any automation open database which supports OLE DB interface e g SQL Server Oracle MySQL MS Access as well as PI iHistorian etc Easy configuration interface is provided CSV Text Data and Alarm Collector The driver provides automated browse of data items and automated periodical data extraction from any types of text files The driver periodically checks for data updates in specified data file s and converts this data into the Dream Report database Then it s available for fast and efficient report generation as well as can be accessed in an open standard database for any third party application Excel Data Import EDI driver Provides periodical access to specific Excel file s or checks for specific folder s optionally including subfolders and imports all new data Proprietary and Custom communication drivers DeltaV Emerson Process Management Full Set Based on OPC with customized connection mechanism DeltaV driver includes real time data
159. Ltd Select Statistical Function Peak Minimum Valu Value Pulse ID Example on the picture above C D C1 is the negative pulse 1 and L M N is the negative pulse 2 If this parameter is empty the statistical function will calculate minimum for all pulses for the entire period i e just a Simple minimum value over the object period NOTE Value and Pulse ID edit boxes must be able to accept dynamic parameters f Manual Input e f Manual Input is selected then the Default Value parameter combo box will be displayed next to the Select Statistical Function combo box Select Statistical Function Manual Input Default Value Tank2_Max lt will be filled with the list of all simple statistic objects Single Data objects Compound objects Expression objects defined in that report lf a user will want to set a static value as default for Manual Input then he can create an expression object assign it a static value and then select it as default for manual input When user will select a data item Select Data Item this data item will be used as a target to write input value into Also the data validation will be done if user will try to input a value and its target tag will be a manual parameter the data validation parameters will be applied If input value will be incorrect the value will be displayed in the edit box as red and if user will click on the push button with Refresh report function an error message will be disp
160. Ltd The Table Name field will contain a name which will be displayed The Display Table Name check box will enable or disable table title display The Display Columns list defines which columns will be displayed as well as their order size width and Caption The check box in the Field column enables and disables the appropriate column display in the table The Caption column defines the caption of each column of the table If you wish to change the caption of any column double click on the appropriate caption inside the column and it will be available for editing The set of check boxes Sort By will define by which column the data will be sorted Only one column can be selected Radio buttons below Sort In will define the sorting direction ascending or descending Radio buttons Vertical orientation and Horizontal orientation below the Sort In section will define the graphical layout of the table columns Column Type Settings Use the Column Type setting to define the statistical data for each column If you will click in the list in that column you will see a small button Click on that button and you will see a popup menu Edit Show Row Index Step Table w Step start time Fees Delintion Step end time Appearance Step data Table Mame Energy Compound Data F Display Table Name Expression Data Display Columns Clear Caption width Sortby Column Type A E Column 54 Show Row
161. Maia aime aame E Wico Maive hsiurcal vaker E Wico Maie hiatoncal alaia Dala Soues Vercipion In case you wish to do that click on Configure button and the dialog box with 2 vertical lists will be opened The left list will contain a list of available Wizcon network stations Select Wizcon stations from which you wish to collect real time alarms and click on Add button They will be added to the right list the list of Wizcon stations from which alarms will be collected When you have finished station selection click on OK button and the configuration will be completed No other configuration is needed Access real time Wizcon tags When browse of the list of Wizcon tags is opened and Wizcon network is enabled you will see automatically a tree of Wizcon network stations and expanding a tree you will get a list of Wizcon tags from the selected station If a network station has more than a thousand tags it can take several seconds up to a minute to get a list of tags from the selected station NOTE Receiving a list of 65000 tags from remote station can take up to 7 10 minutes depending on the PC resources and network load Access Wizcon history of tags and alarms When you configure Dream Report object to get historical data from the external history server and select Wizcon driver then during report generation Dream Report will automatically connect to Wizcon and access its history in a completely transparent way to a user
162. NMP reshHime values 5 Siemens cei ioe Ei mher B ew Conbpna Dirai bo Selected Souce river Logical hame ODBC HE Data Source Description DDEC hionta values Delirad Dirsars Lisi Dirar Liogazal Har BB EENS E opec Alama W iac daa EnA si Real 284 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Select either ODBC historical values driver or ODBC historical alarms driver from the ODBC subfolder of the Open communication protocols folder in the Select data source type section Click on Configure button and the following configuration window will be opened Datsbase Deini Select dabaa ypa DSN Fie Ponati User Mame admin Coaumn sm shudra Paseod ress Larrenched io tres dalabase tiprarHuk j Connect Alum History Dia Item Histor Cabs Tabe Hane For Glam Hislop Tables Foi han Haba Batch_D sts Baich_Dats Bah IO Baich_ID Enay Enen Quenyi Quen Table Field For Alem ID Table Field For lies Hamet Tabie Field For Alar Tei Table Field For liem Vshues abia Frade Fron Alsi Partly Table Field For Date Eabh _IO Table Field For Slas Tine Table Field For Time Tabie Field For Ack Time Tinestame properties Table Field For End Time Daie kimat C Dae only C Database utes UTE hina komat Done Canta NOTE In Dream Report version 3 43 the ODBC History Access driver had one instance both for historical data and historical alarms configuration Now in this new version of Dream Report the ODBC driver has two inst
163. O Number of defined data points Save as new profile Protocol configuration Protocol type Communication type Modbus gt Serial k Transport configuration Port Unit ID 1 1 Mode Serial BTL Interval msec 100 Baud rate 9600 y Timeout msec 1000 Bpte size g z subscribe msec 1000 Stop bits 1 a Cache mec 1000 Parity None 7 In this case please enter parameters for serial communication Port value has the COM number e g 1 will mean COM1 Unit ID is the Modbus unit ID address which can be 1 255 Subscribe parameter will have the same meaning and will work the same way as it was described in the TCP IP communication type section NOTE Connection to devices on serial ports does not support multi drop multiple instruments on the same port Serial Modbus communication supports one device per serial port Testing Connection If the TCP IP communication type is selected then the Jest Connect button will try to establish communication to the selected Modbus device and then will display the appropriate message box according to the result either Test connection succeeded or Test connection failed If the Serial communication type is selected then the Test Connect button will check connection to the COM port 314 N Configure data points Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd To configure Modbus data points click on Configure button and the Modbus Profile Configuration window will be opened
164. OK Cancel Apply will check for project updates every 1 second and update the Details page 51 D Folder Selection Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd In the Project Paths dialog window a user can configure destination folders where different project files will be written to To open Project Paths dialog window click on the command button Set Paths on the Project ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar either in the Dream Report Logger Studio or Dream Report Designer Studio menu see pic below AA Home Connectivity Project Web Elements Tools Runtime iB Z 6 ite Pr amp General Data Base Web Log Hotbackup Localization Tag Project Parameters Log Edit project Version Definition configuraticd File configuration Dictionary Definition ifferent user users contro Project Settings User Management The following dialog window will be opened Project Settings By default all folders will be pointed to the following directory General lt installation directory gt Projects lt Project name gt Data Base Configuration l l l Web configuration However a user can change working directories as Project Pathe follows Project Configuration Files defines where all project files will be stored Project Configuration Files e drpj Dream Report studio launch file f am Files O0S Dream Report Project E nergy report e drt Runtime manager launch and configuration file e lt report name gt cfg
165. OTINTON vscccncccsencsccecare he tinectsudectctadeeness 102 Alarm Table sasiieicosncth in ssiinenunsummnninantnanimexpiedinaabeontndaweotan 189 Alias NAME for WED Servet 1ccccseccccenseersnseersnesensnees 48 PTS saa eects esas E E A A 202 Analytical ANVE czaccomiaractccteewadenicuiaresicandccainuaancdecaniae 314 Any databas E ernea EARE ARREAK ERREA 284 apply a page TOMPIALC ccccassccnceasntieneeceddersesedeereatenns 234 Apply export to Excel settings cccccssccseseccseneecseees 236 Apply report settings c cccccseseccseseccsensecsensessenseanenss 236 Apply Report Template ccccccessccsessecsensecsensessenss 236 as decimal separatof siccsceseseeeeetcsense tote ncesteiesecee 53 as digit grouping SVITIDO scitsaitiacniabavinasanicsonanivannnaiioaasy 53 Automatic Statistical Table cccccsssssscsseersseesseeees 174 VAC 6 E en rere ee ee net reer eee nna nen terete cr treet er eee 129 AXC_ODS _G N Lratt cccceccccceccccceeesccneesceeeesenneeseenes 271 B BE OT a a 115 Background Colour accciscestevietavienncdesndoncecbenaeiaesdasixest 115 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Background PICO C esseeri Ra 115 BATI A e EO 197 EEIE OE EAE A EEEE oe A A A E 151 EENEG ol lt 0 phen ah E ee E en ee eee Ae nen te eT 164 Batch DePINITION 11000cccccccccceeseeccsaeeessssseseeees 149 164 Pal CU Ol eriin E 129 Batch end tiM coe we duct cece be tace toda ee cdeausienedacdenders 129 VEEE aE D ENNA AAE
166. OY on property is not supported E SeT 289 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Item by BACnet Object ID option will be default If this option is selected then the BACnet browse will present data as DevIiD object_type ObjID obj property Example lt DevicelD gt gt lt object type gt gt lt object id gt gt lt object property gt 23456 analog input 3 present value Item by BACnet Object Name option allows the browse of BACnet objects where ID of the object will be replaced by the Object name Example lt DevicelD gt gt lt object type gt gt lt object name gt gt lt object property gt 23456 analog input TempSensor_1 present value Long object types are replaced by abbreviations i e AO Al AV etc NOTE Object ID is a unique ID across all the BACnet network and it cannot be modified Object Name can be changed during the project development process Get Object s Browse from EDE files option enables to browse BACnet objects by using EDE Engineering Data Exchange files If Get Object s Browse from EDE files check box is enabled please see the picture below define the EDE file for Numerical Objects by clicking the browse button BACnet Configuration Settings Items by BACnet Object ID Items by BACnet Object Name Get Objects Browse from EDE files Numerical Objects CAODS EDE_Data_config ceyv mm Find EDE files
167. Ocean Data Systems Ltd e To search for the specific tag item a user will have to arch and Replace x ype Ha tag name in the Item Name box of the Select Select Data Item to be searched Data Item to be searched section If the project tag Dream Report Hetory Fee dictionary contains a large number of tag items anda O External History Server user defines only part of the whole name then when Data Source Complete Match he clicks on the Search Next button the search and Sill replace mechanism will find all tag items that have this ltem Name Complete Match F Ll part of the item name in their names Tank 2 Example If you want to search for tag items with the Select Data Rem to be replaced by name Cand ele oe eS ele type in tho ete EENEN Item Name box the word Tank click Search Next and O External History Server all tag items that have the word Tank in their names ee ate will be shown smen e f you need to find the specific tag with the complete ten Nate bere name please check the corresponding Complete Match check box Then while searching for the selected item the search and replace mechanism will show only the tag items that have this complete name Example If you want to find tag items that have the name Tank 2 then if you type only the word Tank for the item name and click Search Next the message box No Data Address was found will pop up You will then have to type the complete tag name Tank 2 to be sear
168. P address of PcVue server to which the driver will be connected Proxy address The address of a proxy server if exists Proxy port Proxy port HT TPS This option defines if HTTP or secure HTTP HT TPS will be used for data transfer Username Username for login to PcVue server Password Password for PcVue server connection Use alternative language option defines whether primary or secondary language will be used for tag description and other text data properties When all configuration is properly set a user can test connection with a server by clicking on est Connection button in the bottom part of the Driver Configuration window PcVue real time values using OPC driver configuration lf PcVue real time values using OPC driver is selected then as soon as you click on Configure button the OPC driver configuration dialog box will be opened for the OPC driver configuration For details please see the OPC Drivers section Handling of Communication errors and re connections PcVue driver has an embedded function to re establish connection in case of communication error While requesting data from the remote PcVue server when an error is received the driver will try first to re initiate the communication session again and if succeeded will request the needed data again Only after the failure again it will return the communication error Each next reading the driver will retry to initiate the connection again NOTES e When se
169. REAN_JOHAB SIMPLIFIED_CHINESE TRADITIONAL_CHINESE GREEK TURKISH VIETNAMESE HEBREW ARABIC BALTIC CYRILLIC THAI EUROPEAN OEM 6 If you need to do calculations with the following statistical functions Running Time Down Time System Availability Duration in the interval hours for the time period when no value was recorded you can use the following parameter STAT_LIB USE PREV_VALUE _IF_NO DATA TRUE lf this parameter is used then if no value was recorded for the time period defined the previous value which has been recorded into the database will be considered as the valid one for that time period and will be taken for calculations 128 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Simple Statistic Objects Single Data Object Single Data Object is a dynamic object which performs statistical calculations with the textual output of the result Single Data Object Definition x To add this object click on the Single Data Object button Sinde Dels Object Denton on the Report Designer Studio Elements toolbar ect Name Maxi_F ga Object Desoiption Draw a rectangle in the workspace where the output data will be displayed Select Data Item Dream Report History O External History Server The following dialog box will be opened Uata Source Process ae tem Name jf Object Name must be a unique logical name which will be sn ramienna used in further work with that object within the project The object name can b
170. S This option defines if HTTP or secure HTTP HT TPS will be used for data transfer Username Username for login to PcVue server Password Password for PcVue server connection Update Rate This option specifies time period for cyclical check of values and alarm updates Though PcVue web services driver doesn t support unsolicited mode of data acquisition all data updates are not received automatically but are checked periodically with rate defined in this option Use alternative language option defines whether primary or secondary language will be used for tag description and other text data properties When all configuration is properly set a user can test connection with a server by clicking on est Connection button in the bottom part of the Driver Configuration window PcVue real time alarms using Web services driver configuration If PcVue real time alarms using Web services communication driver is selected then as soon as you click on Configure button the following PcVue driver configuration dialog window will be opened 344 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Host address fs Proxy address fs Prox Port HTTPS Update Rate In seconds Use alternative language Use associated label C Use variable title In this window please specify Host address The IP address of PcVue server to which the driver will be connected Proxy address The address of a proxy server if exists Proxy port Proxy port
171. SQL Group By SQL Having SQL round SQL now SQL format SQL Convert Disabling Query Parser If you want to enter the SQL query which contains functions unsupported by the table parser please check the check box Use query directly and the SQL Query parser will be disabled and the query will be launched as it S Calling a stored procedure from Free SQL Query Table It is possible to call a stored procedure using Free SQL Query table To do that 1 Create SQL Table select required DSN and specify user name and password for that DSN if required 2 Inside the SQL query edit box write the following command CALL ProcedureName Parameter Example CALL so GetNameByld 1 Where so GetNameByld name of the stored procedure 1 the parameter for the stored procedure It s very important not to put space between the first curly brace and the CALL keyword It s not that important for the last curly brace The result of the stored procedure will be displayed in that SQL table IMPORTANT NOTES e When using an MS Access database and column names or table names starting with _ or other non alphanumeric symbols enclose the column or table names in square brackets e g MyTable or MyColumn This is not required for SQL Server or other database types e Statement SELECT can be used also Then in the Designer Studio you will see the table with a single column and when generating the report the table will be created ac
172. Setpoint analysis Custom UHH Dictionary configuration Archive Import 4 Quick Lau 2 Logger Studio Repot Designer Studio Driver List of Reports g Configuration onfiguration J Project Reports List 2 Production_Report ee Industrial_Report SInstances 250 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd The Virtual report instances dialog window will be opened see pic below VYelual peporl mislancos Lett ofl Aleepecviz le dee i Select daa pounce ard bam E any epit w Inclarce nares nitence description paspa z ET Dream Aapa History a Ewtemal History Serves Deletes Select Dats Source Led al debe report inlarce Select dete coco ard diem _ Search and Replace a y Fiapo Templse i Desorption Data Source ban Hame Path rer i ODBC Batch Ciste Teni eee BSS 5 ODDEL Babe Digis amg festa Hr ii BE alym iet Z h ip H Counts B Eni Tima T Fan A D BF Mota H Mita T Mond amp Paonity E iaki H twit D Tak A Tere amp Tempi amp Temp i Cox Cea Ce J If a user opens this Virtual report instances window for report with no instances defined then this window will show the default instance entry with all originally defined tags Any time when user clicks on it he will see the tag dictionary or just the list of tags defined in that report If a user modifies tag descriptions or any tag in the default instance and clicks OK then the popup message box will appear ask
173. Studio 90 Logger Studio Overview 90 Communication Driver Definition 92 Item Group 94 Item Group Definition 94 Item Group Definition General 95 Item Group Definition Logging Schedule 96 Item Group Definition Logging on Event 98 Alarm Group g9 Alarm Group Definition 99 Alarm Group Definition General 100 Alarm Group Definition Logging Schedule 101 Alarm Group Definition Logging on Event 102 6 Designer Studio 103 Designer Studio Overview 103 Creating New Report 108 Rulers and Grid 110 Static Objects 111 Adding Picture 112 Text Object 113 Search and Replace 115 Tag Helper Tag Selection 120 List of Dynamic Tokens 125 Dream Report ini File 127 Simple Statistic Objects 129 Single Data Object 129 Compound Data Object 143 Expression Data Object 144 Advanced Visualization 147 Batch Definition 148 Result Representation 151 Alarm Filter Manager 157 Dynamic Text Object 158 Page Number Object 160 Advanced SQL Condition 161 Date amp Time Object 162 Time Period Definition 164 Correction Factor 167 Tables 168 Item Table 168 Free Table 172 Automatic Statistical Table 174 Step Table 177 SQL Query Table 184 Alarm Table 189 Charts and Graphs 193 Pie Graph 193 Bar Graph 197 Line Chart 202 Indicator 209 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Web Elements 215 Timestamp Picker 215 Hyperlink 217 Combo Box 220 Action Button 228 Report and Page Templates 234 Page Templates 234 Report Templates 236 7 Tools 241 Tag Dict
174. Systems Ltd Report Configuration The Report Configuration section of the Project Wizard enables users to configure the output properties for a project report Name First select a name for your new report in the Reports Name window IF Uream Report Project Lreating Vv izara Project Name 3 TAY 7 i This section will allow you to create a new report and add it to the project Connmectyty Data Archiving a Pease enier a name lor a new report Dady _Prodaction You can also add a report descriplion optional The Report Name can be any unique logical name Only alphanumeric characters and spaces can be used otherwise unexpected problems can be expected The maximum length of a report name is 64 characters The Description of Report text box is optional and can include a short description for the report The description can be up to 256 characters Click Next to go to the next step of project creation Click Back to go one step back to re configure or check project configuration Click Close to exit Project Wizard without any operation performed Schedule The Reports Schedule window allows users to define an automatic report generation schedule 32 N eooo Dream Report Project Creating Wizard Project Name Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Please select the schedule of when you want this report to be Data Archmng Daly report wil be generated one or more Games every day
175. The same as I M S p R hour and minute in decimal numbers using the H M format 294 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd e S seconds as a decimal number range 0 through 60 Leading zeroes are permitted but not required e T or X equivalent to the use of H M S in this place e u day of the week as a decimal number range 1 through 7 Monday being 1 Leading zeroes are permitted but not required e U week number of the current year as a decimal number 0 through 53 Leading zeroes are permitted but not required e V ISO 8601 1988 week number as a decimal number 1 through 53 Leading zeroes are permitted but not required e w day of the week as a decimal number 0 6 Sunday being 0 Leading zeroes are permitted but not required e W week number of the current year as a decimal number 0 53 Leading zeroes are permitted but not required e x the same as Y m d e y year without a century as a decimal number range 0 99 Leading zeroes are permitted but not required It is best to avoid y completely and use Y instead e Y year as a decimal number using the Gregorian calendar e A literal character All other characters in the format string must have a matching character in the input string Exceptions are white spaces in the input string which can match zero or more white space characters in the format string Examples of Custom formats and_ their usage mask in CSV driver definition e
176. This case can be used to prepare data before report generation NOTE SQL Command will be executed in synchronous mode with report generation Report will start generation only after execution of the SQL command In the Maximum Command Timeout edit box define the maximum waiting timeout If this timeout is expired the report will start generation without waiting for the preprocessor results and they will be ignored i e the report will be generated using its original configuration If report has any macros define it before report generation Anyway the Report preprocessor command will be generated before macros Input Parameter from File If a user selects the Input parameter from file option and clicks on Ada button then Input parameter from XML file dialog window will be opened see pic below 85 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Input Parameter from ML File A Select XML File C Program Files ODSDrean ReportProjectiMyReport batch_descr xml _ Select Parameter Batch description k Enter parameter name and select an XML file or enter an XML file name Report Preprocessor will try to open the specified XML file read it and look for the specified parameter If the file has been found Report Preprocessor will read its value and use as an input parameter for report generation When custom input parameter is added to the SQL command edit box it will be added in the format file lt filename gt lt pa
177. UL Condition OF Cancel 199 D e Single column option will change visual representation of data When this option will be selected all defined bars which have to be displayed next to each other will be displayed in one bar column one above another so that each bar group will be represented by one single column bar for each bar as displayed on a picture below Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd e Pareto graph option enables bar graph to display all bar graphs in one group sorted by its value as described on a picture below eS eee ee ee Dhihin hiha iha Dia Dian SSS66660606060555 8 ooecoeeco0coc0 005 bJ In the Timestamp Format combo box a user can configure the timestamp format to be displayed on the bar graph The Bar type combo box enables to select one of the options for the visual bar representation Rectangle 3D Cylinder 3D Rectangle Flat Cylinder Flat or Marks Only NOTE If Marks Only bar representation type is selected then in the Bar Graph Definition dialog window below the Color section a new combo box will appear please see the picture below Bar Period gt E Legend Colour E dd Remove Source Name 200 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd User will be able to select an option for the type of marks which will visualize the bar defined There are 6 mark options available Cross Star Line Square Triangle or Circle Grid settings By enabling t
178. Value for details on the definition of each of these statistical functions please go to the Single Data Object section of this manual Aggregated Data Filter Type Aggregated Aggregated Data Filter s Settings Retrieve First Value Last value For every Max value Min value Integral value Weighted average value Average value Sum value Moved average value gt inthe For every combo boxes define time period Time period unit has the same options as the step period data retrieval option described above i e second s minute s hour s day s week s month s year s 3 Click on the button Add and the new filter will be added to the Aggregated Data Filters List All project ADF filters list will be saved in the project database ADF Functionality Performance Overview ADF functionality works as follows 1 Any HDA driver should be configured for the project 2 Aggregated data filter should be defined for that project in the ADF configuration the data retrieval mode is selected 3 When designing reports any tag in any object can be selected and ADF can be applied to this tag ADF to be used option in the Designer Studio data objects 4 During report generation ADF will be used to get aggregated data and will perform statistical calculation on that aggregated data and not on raw values 261 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Runtime Man
179. a Systems Ltd The Dynamic Report Generator DRG is a module that generates reports on demand where the time period for the report is selected by a user at runtime or the list of tags which will be used for specific report generation is selected manually in runtime DRG is implemented as a standard Windows application generate exe NOTE While installing Dream Report DRG will be also installed as ActiveX component and user will be able to integrate it as part of the HMI System Dynamic Report Generator window can be opened either from the Windows start menu Dynamic Report Generator or from Runtime Management Console RMC To open Dynamic Report Generator from RMC user will have to click on Dynamic Generation button The following Dynamic Report Generator configuration window will be opened Dynamic Report Avatable Reports Dynamic Generation Report Targets 4 jj Batch reports Use orignal time period 3 Energy Repot examples Define time period 1 Energy ficiency Report 7 Repot Energy 4 gg OEE Performance and Marte nm r A Sot of Select List of Tags for Replacement Generate Absolute or relative period definition v Curent Status Absolute Date Time Repot Status Date 7 5 2012 Last Generated Not Generated 1 40 46 PM H MM SS Neat G iii Not Defined End of period a untins sanning Absokte Date Time atus Queue status Queued Date 8 8 2012 1 40 46 PM gt HMMSS Generating P
180. a Tables Demo Batch Report Energy Effoency Repor Equipment avalahdity re Puoride Monthly Report GW Monthly Operating F Inccators Monthly Operating Repo Ae Graphs Report Energy Report Maintenance Report Production Report Refinery Report Water Setpomt Anslyas Singe objects SQL Tables Step Tades Turbaaty Report Web Trend Widgets ok Carne Ocean Data Systems Ltd General Report Name Format Report Time Definition Generate Repot On Evert Enable Generatorn on Event Report Instances Dats Source tem Name m Generating report with delay after event OTT Ay Rapon Fie Format Report Preprocessor Macros User Authorization If the Enable Generation on Event option is checked and no condition value is specified or the data source or data item is not specified the user will get an error message and the report definition will not be complete User has also a possibility to set a delay to generate report after event has occurred If a user checks the Generate report with delay after event check box then he must set a valid number from 0 to 86400 of seconds which runtime will sleep after report generation event has taken place After the specified period of seconds the report will be generated 76 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Report Output Format ee Project Reports List General This dialog enables users to configure report output Harm Tables Report Name Fomat settings i e
181. a org manual 5 2 Please find below an example of how LUA script can be used in Dream Report Expression Object Object Name Expression Text string function local s e string find f expS t return s end 2 00 function local s e string find N A function local s e string find 2 00 function local s e string find f expS tri return e end 4 00 exp3 00 function return os time year 2012 month 8 day 30 hour 6 1 346 301 121 00 min 32 sec 1 dst true end function return os date Y m d H M S f exp3 end 2012 08 30 06 32 01 146 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Advanced Visualization Advanced Visualization option allows you to enhance visualization of the results of the statistical Advanced visualization settings x calculations in your report B Enable advanced visualization i From To Display text You can specify a list of value ranges of data item specified in that object and the text which will be 100 000000 S00 000000 Aonormayanalan displayed in the report instead of the result value Display Style Together with the displayed text you can specify Arial E urepeanl e z visual text properties font size style color and ee background color Font Color Back Color The same text can be used for multiple value ranges e g if you want to display the same text cL cL with a different color and font F
182. a web report When generating a regular PDF or Excel report those objects will be invisible If Manual Input function is used in a Step table then all input values will use a date for each value which will correspond to the row where that value was entered into After selecting the statistical function and data select the time period NOTE For Single Data Objects the Manual Input time definition option is available 141 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd The time period for a statistical calculation is described in details in the Time Definition section of this manual The period defined for the object can also be Batch based This is also described in details in the sections Batch Definition and Time Definition The Result Representation section describes how to format the results decimal precision added unit etc The Advanced SQL Condition section describes how to configure advanced filters for the processed values Example of the Single Data Objects First Value 150 in 1350 ms L125 m3 41 05 2007 08 00 13 First Value Last Value 075 m 1350 j 1435 m3 panpe A007 15 15 00 Last Value Maximum Value 148 mi Laks j l g ma HA ea 1 10 00 Maximum Valine Minimum Valte 150 in 150 ma 150 ms OF 06 2007 11 00 00 Minimum Value Average Value 1139 81 m 1136 m3 1248 m3 Weighted Average 1133 46 r 1149 ma Integral Value oo a as tty SS iT g A633 a Sun Velen rS02755 ma 179095 ma 69885 m3 103 12 47 Run Time Standard Devia
183. able format of three options Date time or Date only or Time only Integral calculates the integral of all values during the specified time period Average calculates the average value of the selected item during the specified time period Weighted average calculates a time weighted average of the value during the specified time period Weighted average uses a different calculation than average so do not use the two functions interchangeably The weighted average function considers the values as well as the duration of each value Sum calculates the sum of all values during the specified time period Standard deviation calculates the standard deviation of all values during the specified time period Standard deviation sample based calculates the standard deviation sigma not based on all values over the period but by specific number of samples e g on first 10 or 20 or 30 samples Advanced Functions Logged Value Counter calculates how many times a value in the specified range was logged in the database within the specified period of time If the Logged Value Counter function is selected enter a range of values filter for the calculation The values entered are inclusive i e will both be included in the calculation Negative and floating point values are accepted however only numeric values can be entered This filter doesn t work with the text or symbolic values Select Statistical Function Logged Value Counte Range 15 fol
184. acro name to Fluoride Monthly Report Shell command associate with the macro 2 Select macro type SQL Macro or Shell command GW Monthly Operating F Inckaltors Monthly Operating Repo Me Graphs Enter macro to execute Ewecule Macro On Event a Before report generation 3 Enter Macro itself sacar ON after report generation If the macro type is a Shell command Report Production enter the command line nacional nam ane Ifthe macro type is SQL macro enter Setpont Analys the name of SQL stored procedure SQL Tees etl ceed mares defined in a database associated with Step Tables Macro name Macro type Exeaston mode the Dream Report project The format emt for the SQL stored procedure is Widgets DSN DSN_Name Macro_Name If the DSN is password protected then the Ta syntax of a macro will be nA DSN DSN_Name UID login PWD passw ord Macro Name User Aunorization NOTE If the macro type is Microsoft Access Ce _ Apoy Macro please enable radio button SQL Macro enter the name and the format MACC D Folder_Path DB_Name mdb Macro_Name Example MACC C Program files ODS Dream Report Project Energy report Database Energy report mdb Restore As soon as you have specified the macro choose the execution mode The execution mode is applied to each macro separately and not globally to the entire macro list It has 3 options e Before report generation the macro will be executed before each report is processed Ho
185. ag during report generation can be added as well Select the data source and tag in the section Select Data Item and click on the Ado button The appropriate component will be added to the mask The separator will be added automatically During report generation this component will be replaced by the current value of the selected tag 72 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd You can mix any number of any components in your report filename mask as long as the mask length does not exceed 256 characters When the length of a filename mask reaches 256 characters the edit box will automatically stop accepting additional characters NOTE If a user wants to add the date to the report name using not the timestamp of the report generation but applying some offset i e some days back then the additional tokens KDAYS or XDAYS can be used please see the sample below where e or is an operator whether the number of days offset should be added or deducted from the report generation date e X is the number of days to add or deduct from the report generation date eDAYS is the conventional token word which will be recognized by the report name mask parser Report Hame Format Indes File Hame Report filename mask HR epot ame _ d FULL_TIME S TAMF 204r5 This example shows how the additional tokens XDAYS or XDAYS can be used Please always check that these tokens should be added to the timestamp format inside
186. ager Runtime Management Console Any Dream Report project can run by means of a special module Runtime Manager Runtime control service This module can run either as a service launched on the PC start or as an application launched on a user Windows login To control all operations related to the Runtime Manager runtime service and report generation the Runtime Management Console RMC is used Runtime Management Console enables managing the project in Runtime i e reloading the project reports shutting the project providing access to different project options project folders Web portal IIS configuration Dream Report license info help documentation report generation on demand while the project is running RMC can be launched in 3 ways e Double click on the Runtime Management Console icon on the desktop e From the Runtime Management Console shortcut in the Startup e Press hot key combination Alt G e Click on the Run Project command button either on the Runtime ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar or on the vertical toolbar both in the Dream Report Logger Studio and Dream Report Designer Studios see pic below Home Connectivity Project Web Elements Tools Runtime Project fonfiguration Runtime Quick Lau 4 Logger Studio a E Report Designer Studio Driver List of Reports m Conti ti ep ae J Project Reports List Fe Production_Report 7 Industrial Report Virtual Report Instances
187. ags to be logged Click Next to go to the next step of project creation Click Back to go one step back to re configure or check project configuration Click Close to exit Project Wizard without any operation performed Logging Mode The Logging mode step of project creation enables users to define how often values of all the selected data items tags will be logged in the database during the active logging period please see pic below Hy fed Repon Frofect Oreaung vy zad __ fS _ Project Name z In this section you must select how your tag values will be archived in a Dream Report historian database Connectivity Please select how you want to archive values of your selected tags Thae mJ The logging mode combo box will have the following options On Change On Update Every On Item Value Change and On Absolute time e On Change option will enable logging only on a value update if the value is different from the previous one When this logging mode is switched on a user can define tolerance in the corresponding Tolerance edit box The value entered in this edit box will define how many units of value should be changed in order to log a new value to the database and which value change should be ignored e On Update option will enable logging when any value update is received from the data source whether or not the new value is different from the previous one e Every option will record the item value at the def
188. ailable batch IDs during the specified period Select any of them to be the Golden Batch ID 149 NY Dream Report x Batch IDs in time range 7 All batch IDs Batch IDs in time range S0solUte of relative period detinitian Start of report period End of report period Absolute Date T inne 7 Absolute Date Time g 3 18 2011 v Dans 5 19 2011 4 Paps pg5428 hhmm ss back pg5450 hhmm ss back As soon as the Golden Batch ID is selected this batch ID will be taken for calculations in any statistical object throughout the reporting project where time definition is configured for the Golden batch Ocean Data Systems Ltd 150 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Result Representation The format of results decimal precision added unit etc of statistical and analytical objects can be defined in the Result Representation dialog box The Visible check box defines whether the result of the entire object will be published in the report or will remain invisible in the output report This can be useful if object is created for internal calculations and is not intended directly for the report The Select unit to add to result combo box allows a user to select or enter a string which will be added to the end result in the output report The user can select or manually type any string This can be used to display engineering units for better report readability The Precision of result after decimal point Compound Data Objec
189. alculated formula NOTE 2 When option By defined periods is used then only the whole complete sub periods will be considered for calculation Example if the period is 18 00 21 30 and the sub period is 1 hour then only 3 sub periods 18 00 19 00 19 00 20 00 20 00 21 00 will be used Performance Analysis Functions ON Counter calculates how many times during the specified time period the value changed from zero to a non zero value Example If during the specified period the following values were found 1 O 0 1 0 1 O then ON Counter will return 2 because the value changed from 0 to 1 only twice OFF Counter calculates how many times during the specified time period the value changed from a non zero value to zero Example If during the specified period the following values were found 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 then OFF Counter will return 3 because the value changed from 1 to 0 three times ON OFF Counter calculates how many times during the specified time period the value changed from zero to a non zero value and then changed back to zero Example If during the specified period the following values were found 1 O 0 1 O 1 O then ON OFF Counter will return 2 because the value changed from 0 to 1 and back to zero twice NOTE Found Values means those values that are in the Dream Report database or the External History server with the correct timestamp and a good quality Running Tim
190. alculations for this object is described in the Time Definition section of this manual Item Table Appearance To adjust the formatting of the table click on the m Table Appearance floating splitter and the Table Appearance dialog window will be opened see picture on the right The Table Name field will contain a name which will be displayed The Display Table Name check box will enable or disable table title display The Display Columns list defines which columns will be displayed as well as their order size width and caption The left row of check boxes enables and disables the appropriate column display in the table The Caption column defines the caption of each column of the table If you wish to change the caption of any column double click on the appropriate caption inside the column and it will be available for editing Selecting any column and clicking Move Up or Move Down buttons will change the order of the selected column The right set of check boxes Sort By will define by which column the data will be sorted Only one column can be selected Radio buttons below Sort In will define the sorting direction ascending or descending The Font Properties controls enable you to set different font properties for the table title table header and displayed data in columns When you define a table you never know how many x Data Definition Appearance Table Name Production Date Table Dieplay Ta
191. all DSNs defined in Windows After having selected any DSN user should specify Login and Password and click on the button Ada The DSN definition DSN definition name Use DSN and its Login will be automatically added to the list of project DSNs To delete DSN user has to select a DSN definition in the list and click on Delete button A confirmation message box Do you want to delete selected DSN definition will appear and if user will click Yes the selected DSN will be deleted 255 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Clicking on the Test button will check if the connection to the selected DSN succeeded or failed If DSN connection has failed a message box with error will be opened User will have to check the reasons for the DSN connection failure If user wants to add a new DSN to the project he should click on Add DSN button The standard Windows wizard Create New Data Source window will be opened and user will be able to create a new DSN definition using it NOTE All DSN configurations will be stored in the project database in the table Project_DSNs Login and password for each DSN will be saved in BASE64 encoding Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Database Archiving Database Archiving enables users to perform periodic archiving of internal Dream Report database and to automatically manage that archiving library This functionality enables automatic transfer of aged data from the main data
192. am Report has an auto parade feature It will automatically recognize the version currently installed on your computer and start the upgrade process if its version has any newer files During this process all new files will be copied to an appropriate place No uninstall of the previous version is needed When you run the installation the corresponding window will appear saying that the older product version is already installed on this computer Press the button in order to proceed with upgrade You can continue using Dream Report right after upgrade 12 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Project Upgrade Procedure If you need to upgrade your project to a newer Dream Report version 4 2 please perform the following upgrade steps 1 Backup of the Existing Project First you should backup your actual Dream Report project which was created and is running in an earlier version of Dream Report Backup has to be done for the complete project folder including all subfolders 2 Installation of Dream Report Version 4 2 Now you have to install Dream Report version 4 2 by launching the Dream Report setup executable Please note that there is no need to uninstall the previously installed Dream Report version If the previous version of Dream Report has been installed then by running the Dream Report version 4 2 setup the installer will automatically recognize that the older version is already installed and will propose an upgrade
193. ame value and tolerance will appear in the table in this section Consider Stable Period if Values are Stable for at least enables users to define the stability period by setting the time period when the values will remain stable Rate of Change ROC If you are interested in measuring the rate of change of your values before entering the stability zone and after exiting it you can set the criteria for the rate of change measurement There are 2 sections e Rate of change before setpoint contains the criteria for the rate of change measurement before entering the stability zone e Rate of change after setpoint contains the criteria after exiting the stability zone Both sections have the same configuration parameters and controls Rate Of Change ROC has 2 sections to be defined e Value you have to specify the expected rate of change units e g degrees C per time unit e g per hour per minute e Criteria to start stop measurement of the rate of change For the measurement criteria there are 3 options available Start End of period This means that the start time for ROC before setpoint or the end time for ROC after setpoint will be start end of the calculation period defined in the statistical object e g start or end of the batch Start End of changes means that the rate of change measurement will be not calculated from the start or until the end of an object calculation period but only from the point of time whe
194. ame and location will be taken from the corresponding report settings If Login with different user action is selected there will be no special action parameters to configure The current user will be logged out The general Login page Web Portal Welcome page will be opened where user will have to enter login credentials If Logout action is selected there will be no special action parameters to configure The current user will be logged out and the Web Portal Welcome Page will be opened lf Reset web report data action is selected Dream Report will read all data entered manually in edit boxes combo boxes tables etc calculate all statistical objects located in the actual displayed report using that data and update change the data of all objects accordingly in the currently displayed web report 232 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd lf File transfer action is selected user will have to select a folder where all client selected files will be transferred to Select Action File Transfer Action Parameters Select Folder to Transfer C Data DEF aa When user will click on the browse button a standard Windows Browse for Folder window will be opened where user can select any Windows folder where files selected on a web client side will be transferred NOTE When user will click on the browse button on a web report the Select file window will be
195. amic token has the following format tp lt object_names gt and can be used in 3 possible ways a For referencing Timestamp Picker objects where lt object_name gt is a name of the Timestamp Picker object b For time definition in Calculated Time Period and Manual Input modes c In Expression Objects As soon as it s referenced in Expression objects it can be used in Advanced SQL Condition and other places where dynamic tokens are used Example tp Energy_ production correction This dynamic token is used for a special item name that has to be set in the Manual Input statistical function Single Data Objects if the Manual Input function will be used for correction operations Example correction ipp lt parameters gt This dynamic token is used for accessing Internal Project Parameters defined in the project 125 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Example ipp lt Cycle 3 gt List of Web Manual Entry Driver Dynamic Tokens used in Advanced SQL Condition kfONLY_ VALIDATED This dynamic token is used when only validated values will be received from Web Manual Entry Driver k NOT_ VALIDATED This dynamic token is used when only NOT validated values will be received from Web Manual Entry Driver k ORIGINAL This dynamic token is used when only original submitted values will be received from Web Manual Entry Driver Example Tag_Name f exp tag name AND k NOT_VALIDATED List of
196. ances and should be configured separately as ODBC historical values for historical data or and ODBC historical alarms for historical alarms Configuration Steps 1 Open DSN File combo box and select a DSN which is configured to your database If DSN requires login and password enter user name and password in appropriate edit boxes below DSN combo box NOTE All DSNs defined in the project are saved and can be managed form one place for details please see the DSN Manager section of this manual 2 Click Connect button The driver will connect to a database read a list of its tables and fill table lists for tag values data extraction and alarms data extraction NOTE When displaying a list of available tables in the selected database the ODBC driver will display all tables user and system tables and all views available in that database 3 Select database type The ODBC driver proposes the following types of database e internal database Column ltem structure Any database AnyDB structure InSQL database PcVue HDS database Aspen InfoPlus 21 Internal database enables connectivity to the internal Dream Report database created by Dream Report 285 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Column ltem database enables connectivity to the database tables with the structure where data is recorded in a table where there is a column for a timestamp optional 2 columns for timestamp and milliseconds and value for each tag is recor
197. anual Automatic Statistical Table Appearance The Appearance section contains column 55 5sisecs 1s definitions as well as formatting options font Data Detintion properties colors background etc sooner Here you can format the properties of an AST caaicaet enon hinamaneninacssass vanadis sialon object The orientation of a table can be specified a Show Descritor by the Show Table Horizontally check box ot an ee By default 2 options Show Item Name column Sis pm Si pom Deacon Capion and Show Description are enabled pen deenen oes mu Deescapbon Sg User can hide the item name column and the description column by disabling the corresponding edit boxes Both columns can be defined accordingly in the Data Definition Tab The user can set the table name and then decide to display it or not by selecting Display Table Care Name 175 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Example of Automatic Statistical table C i 15032006072000 C E E 176 Dream Report Step Table Ocean Data Systems Ltd Step Table is an object which creates a table automatically with a predefined time for each row in the table Example Create a table for 1 day making 1 row for each hour ee Click on the Step Table button on the Report Designer Studio Elements toolbar pic above Draw a rectangle where you want to place the table in the report workspace Step Table Data Definition
198. ar in the Dream Report Designer Studio menu see pic below Home Connectivity Project Web Elements ombo Timestamp Box Picker Add a button to the report and the following Action Button Configuration dialog box will be opened Action Button Configuration x Button Capton Validate Production Data Select Action Validate Data Action Parameters Validate Source Tanki_Avg In this dialog window user has to define the name for the caption Button Caption select an action to be done when this button will be pushed Select Action and also configure Action Parameters if needed Each defined action has its proper parameters for action There are 10 actions available Validate data Submit Correction Submit Refresh report Generate report Login with different user Logout File transfer Generate PDF and Reset web report data e lf Validate data action is selected there will be no special action parameters to configure Access to the data validation action will be managed on the level of configuration of a user access to that report only supervisor login can access the validation of the report data 228 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd If Submit Correction action is selected there will be no special action parameters to configure User will only have to select the source Submit Source and the report fields will be checked for correct data
199. arch for this object in the DR studio report by this object s UUID Universal Unique Identifier This UUID is located in the dmlc log log file which is stored in the folder with the unique name being generated by Dream Report at the moment of WEB Report generation To search an object in the report by its UUID right click on the report page and select Search Object by UUID from the popup menu tk Cut Copy Object Copy Object Properties Paste Object gt Paste Object Properties Search and Replace Tag Dictionary Virtual Report Instances Insert New Page Background Set As Background Modify Disable t Menu Delete Delete Current Page Grid Settings Dream Repor Report Settings For details on WEB reports please go to the Web Portal section of this manual 119 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Tag Helper Tag Selection Tag Helper is a new module that allows users to pre select tags which will be very often used in a reporting project and then to select tags for reporting objects from this pre selected list This function will help users to avoid selecting tags from thousands of tags from the server and save a lot of engineering time NOTE This option works only with historical drivers and is not relevant to DA drivers as DA items browse already shows the list of tags used only for logging If user has selected an HDA External History Server driver in any object the following Select Data Item ta
200. are enabled in all selected users and or groups If some users groups have access rights which are not defined in other selected users groups then those User access rights check boxes will not be checked for this common users selection In the real time when a user makes login the Dream Report User Management will check if it s Windows user If yes then it will verify with Windows Active Directory which groups this user belongs to and then will apply the access right If a user belongs to different groups which are defined in the Dream Report User Management then user rights will be set using maximum Summary access mode Example if a user belongs to the Guest group with access to the Designer studio and also he belongs to the Engineers group which has an access to the Runtime manager then the user who belongs to those 2 groups will get access both to the Designer studio and the Runtime manager The Project Reports list will be filled with all reports existing in the actual Dream Report project When a user selects one or multiple users or groups he can check the reports which the selected users and groups will have access to in the Report Name list control on the right NOTE If there are any virtual instances of the reports in the project then if a user gets some all access rights to any report in this project he will automatically get the same defined access rights to all the instances of that report 64 NY Version
201. at mode the entire definition won t be property From To deleted It will be automatically saved and will just not be Number of alarm occumer 5 used for reporting You can enable that definition again if Display Style you need without its re definition Adal Europear ta The Alarm property combo box has the following options Font Color Back Color in its list Priority Duration Number of alarm Boi uw i occurrences 7 Change font type v Change text color The Duration column will be available only in normal F Change font size 7 Change background colle mode Change font style The Number of Occurrences column will be available only Alan property From To Add if Display single alarm mode will be selected The Number of alarm occur 0 10 Property filter will define the property value range The font Duration 0 10 _ Delete style will define the text and the background color and style NEMT Al for all alarms which will apply to that property range OF Cancel NY NOTE If the same alarm is applied to the multiple defined filters which exclude each other then the first one will be taken Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd If the same alarm is applied to different filters which do not exclude each other then both visual properties will be applied If a user will enable advanced visualization then the Advanced Options button will have additional OK icon on it indi
202. ata Source Item name and time period Define time period and then the combo box will be filled with all values extracted for the specified tag for the specified time period lf user wants to display all existing values he can check the All values check box and then the time period definition control will become disabled and all tag values will be extracted If more than one same value exists in the database only one will be displayed in the combo box it will operate similar to the SELECT DISTINCT SQL query lf a user wants to apply additional filtering to the data he she can click on the Advanced SQL button The Advanced SQL Condition dialog window will be opened for details please see Advanced SQL Condition section of tis manual List of users display When this option is selected the combo box will be filled with the list of all available users lf Windows user management system is used Active directory or local windows users list then Dream Report will retrieve the list of all users from Windows and fill the combo box with that list for details please see User Management section of this manual Show Data Source List This option will have 2 radio buttons Dream Report History and External History Server please see the pic below 371 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd 1 Combo Box Configuration x Object name Default value Assign Selection to Tag Production _1 Feobject 1 ha Real Ti
203. ata Systems Ltd List of other data systems which have connectivity to Dream Report COMMENTS F OPC via F3 Gateway and DA native driver supportot LGH ef ODBC drivar Nativa driver support of all retrieval motae 280 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Driver Configuration Data Source Definition Dream Report logger has ability to connect to one or multiple data sources and to collect online data alarms and to have direct history access for data and alarms Data source driver definition can be done in the Communication Configuration Wizard dialog box which can be opened from either Logger Studio or Report Designer Studio menu Click on the command button Driver Configuration either on the Connectivity ribbon icon or the Driver Configuration button also located on the left vertical toolbar AQ ere z lL gt dome Connectivity Project Web Element De le lA Bach Dbatch Add item Add alarm Mition Configuration group group fConnectivity configuration Logger Studio Report Designer Studio List of Reports a Praiert Rennrte ict Data source selection will be displayed as a tree Communication Configuration Wizard x Select Dala 5 T 3 ri ees Conhguie Dine tor Selected Source Delined Orreers List lritennal Driwar Logical M A Anayica rea hime values lle nea aha OB ateh his Driver Logical Mame BB CieanAepott Ce Pome ene Add MB Enco Se MVE ies
204. ata item during the specified time period e System availability calculates the system availability in using all values of this data ttem during the specified time period e Standard deviation calculates the standard deviation of all values of this data item during the specified time period e SQL Query performs a predefined SQL query in the selected database NOTE For more details on each of the statistical functions listed above please go to the Single Data Object section The Define time period section defines the time period for statistical calculations for this object and is described in detail in the Time Definition section of this manual The period can be time based or Baich based This is described in detail in the Batch Definition section The Bar Period section will allow you to define the period of time per bar group The bar graph will draw a graph window for a time period defined in the Time Definition section This window will be split into sections with the length of each section based on the Bar Period definition All bar slices will be calculated and displayed separately for each period The Manual Entry check box supports entering a static numeric value that will be constant during report generation This allows users to create pie graph combining statistical data and static reference data In order to add manual data check the Manual Entry check box enter the constant in the edit box below select the des
205. ated on top of the selected objects the standard Search and Replace dialog will be opened as in the pic above e lf a group of objects includes some non dynamic objects then it will be discarded from the search 118 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd e lf the Free Item Table is selected but none of the internal fields has been chosen then Search and Replace will be done for the entire free table If the Free Item Table is selected but only some of its cells have been chosen then Search and Replace will be done only for the selected cells from that Free table e f together with the Free Item Table some additional objects are selected then Search and Replace will be done on top of the selected objects also considering changes in the Free Item Table as described in p 3 of this section e After Search and Replace operation is finished the selected object will remain selected as before the operation Tag Dictionary and Virtual Report Instances Two functionalities Tag Dictionary and Virtual Report Instances provide users with an advanced Search and Replace mechanism by using complete data source data item and complete source type matching For details please go to the Search and Replace parts of the Tag Dictionary Virtual Report Instances sections Search Object by UUID If there is any problem with an object which is used in WEB reports in Dream Report Web portal then in order to find this object user should se
206. aximum of all values which have to be displayed in the chart line and then will automatically center scale limits Manual or item based If this mode is selected user can manually enter a value for minimum and maximum limit for a scale If you wish to use real time tag values to set scale limits dynamically during report generation you can double click directly on a From or and To edit box and tag selection dialog window will be opened where you can select any available real time data source and select any tag Then at the moment of report generation chart object will read the actual real time value of that defined tag and use it to define limits of that scale Scale limit mode Manual or ttem based k From Ta All scale limits are set separately for each line so in order to change a scale limit for any specific line a user has to select that line in the list and then edit its scale definition Advanced Visualization If a user clicks on the Advanced options button the Advanced visualization dialog box will be opened ka Enable advanced visualization From To Color 100 200 100 200 Add Here a user can enter one or several value ranges and corresponding colors Then when displaying a line in a chart if a line value will be in a range defined in the advanced visualization then the line will change a color to the one defined for that value range in the Advanced Visualization section As soon as the line value exits
207. base to an archive in order to reduce the main database size and improve data logging and report generation performance To configure database archiving you can click on Advanced Options button in the Database Definition dialog of Project Settings see Database Configuration section of this manual Or you can click on the command button Database archiving configuration on the Tools ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar in the Dream Report studio menu see pic below r PHF Home Connectivity Project Web Elements Tools Runtime Tr L rot 7 2 wy B iO ke m E E Tag Setpoint analysis Custom Virtual Report Report UHH Dictionary configuration Archive Import Instances filters Import Tool Manager Tools DSN Database archiving configuration Aggregated Data Filter The Database archiving configuration dialog window will be opened please see the picture below _ Database archiving configuration dialog x Enable database archiving Maximum age of data which you want to keep in the main database Archive aged data every 1 Every Day Folder where database archive files will be stored C OD5 Pream Report Project Industial_Report Database Manual operations By default database archiving configuration will be disabled all configuration dialog box controls will be also disabled except for OK and CANCEL buttons If the Enable database archiving check box is checked
208. bject which accepts a manually entered expression involving one or more Statistical objects mathematical operators and constants To add this object click on the Expression Data button on the Report Designer Studio Elements toolbar Then draw a rectangle in the report page where the object will be placed The Expression Data Object definition dialog window will Expression Data Object Definition be opened 7 Object Name must be a unique logical name which will be used a eee in further work with that object within the project The object name Object Name ee pen on can be up to 64 characters long Only alphanumeric characters and _ are allowed The first character cannot be a number Object Description Object Description allows users to quickly understand the use of the object The description can be up to 256 characters long All Add diania object hom pok characters are allowed Total SingleData M Add The Add dynamic object from report option allows users to 2 i select a data object to add to the expression To use this choose an object from the combo box and click the Add button The object 833 Sowce name will be added to the expression edit box To remove the last object inserted from expression click Delete The selected zd dynamic object will be added in the format of f lt Field Names L Ad j If even one of the dynamic objects in an Expression Object shows feqit Single Data 1Singe Data 1 100rsir To
209. ble Mame Display Columns Field Caption w by en name s name C e e aes Ere O Source Source 5 Sort in Ascending order Descending order Font Propeities Anal European 8 Ge Title Table Name Align Siye O Columns 7i Text Line Lolo Back Loku OHeader my O mE List Rows from Start List Rows from End 10 lt Max Number of Rows Advanced SQL Condition a Cor rows will actually be displayed It may be few but may also result in dozens of pages in a report Therefore the Max Number of Rows edit box allows you to specify the maximum number of rows to display in the table This enables the user to protect the report from an overflow 169 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd When defining the maximum number of rows you can set which cut of all the data set you would like to display the first or the last block of data This can be defined by selecting an appropriate radio button List rows from Start or List rows from End 170 E Column based When logging is the same for each Tag yy Timestamp 02 07 07 02 07 07 027 07 07 02 07 07 02 07 07 027 07 07 02 07 07 02 07 07 027 07 07 02 07 07 16 00 00 17 00 00 16 00 00 15 00 00 14 00 00 13 00 00 12 00 00 11 00 00 10 00 00 09 00 00 02 07 07 08 00 00 02 07 07 07 00 00 xamples of Item Tables 1470 00 1455 00 1440 00 1410 00 1395 00 1780 00 1350 00 1320 00 Dream Report Tank All Tanks Together
210. bs lt InNSQL option enables automatic connection to InNSQL database This option provides automatic tag browse and data extraction from InSQL database PcVue HDS database enables connectivity to the PcVue historical database server Aspen InfoPlus 21 enables connectivity to the Aspen IP21 historical database server 4 Data mapping for tag values From the right table list Item History Data select a table which contains your tags values As soon as you have selected a table combo boxes below this list will be automatically filled with names of all the columns from the selected table Select appropriate column names from the combo boxes with column names as follows If you have selected Internal database no column mapping is required Dream Report will Know by itself how to get tag names and data If you have selected Column lItem structure type please select only a column with Timestamp from the combo box Table field for date If you have selected Any database please select column name containing tag names in the combo box Table field for item names column name containing tag values in the combo box Table field for item values column name containing timestamps in the combo box Table field for date If you have selected InSQL database no column mapping is required Dream Report will know by itself how to get tag names and data If you have selected PcVue HDS database no column mapping is required Dream Report wi
211. button Select setpoints will appear next to the statistical function combo box Select Statistical Function Duration of stable period hi Select setpoints If a user clicks on the button Select setpoints the dialog box with setpoint selection will be opened where a user will be able to select one or several setpoints Select setpoints x Select setpoints Setpoint nam O Oven 1 LI Oven 2 Consider items Fastest entry item Sowest entry item Fastest exit item User can select one or more setpoints Then the check box next to each setpoint will become checked If no setpoints have been selected user can click on browse button on the right Then the Setpoint Analysis Configuration dialog window will be opened For details on how to create setpoint definitions please go to the section Setpoint Stability Analysis Group box Consider items will have a combo box with 6 entries the default selection is All items K2 All items the function will calculate all items tags which have entered and left the stability period Then the function will do its main calculation for all the items from that setpoint Fastest entry item the function will calculate the item tag which has first reached the stability period the one which has the earliest timestamp of the first value within the stability period Then the function will do its main calculation only for that item and not to for all
212. by that report template to the specified FTP server By clicking the Jes button user will be able to test connection to the selected Windows folder or FTP server Limit report files storage section described below will perform its function of limiting archived report files by period or by files number both for the Windows folder and for FTP server The Limit report files storage section allows you to control the number of report files saved by Dream Report This option will be applied to both PDF and Excel report files and allows to e Limit number of stored files i e define how many files of this report should be stored in the report files directory If this option will be enabled then each time a new report is generated Dream Report will check the number of existing report files If this limit will be exceeded the oldest files will be deleted e Store files for period of i e define for which period files of this report should be kept in the report files directory If this option will be enabled then each time a new report is generated Dream Report will check the creation date of existing report files and will delete each report created before the defined period Reports Tree Organization 68 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd By default all reports will be created and displayed as a report tree If a user will right click below the report list he will get a new entry in the context menu Add New Level please see the
213. by virtual report instance s o If Select to generate by Batch option is enabled then the Get Batch From combo box below will be filled with the list of all web combo box objects which have the Batch ID Lis function 376 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd If in real time in a web report the selected web combo box object has no selected value the report will be generated without any dynamic replacement If during report generation the selected combo box has the value s selected the report will be generated for the selected batch ID For details of the web combo box object functions please see Combo Box section of this manual e lf Generate report action is selected user will have to select a report and report instance which will be generated please see the picture below Select Action Generate Report Action Parameters List of Reports Production_ Report r Make Dynamic Tag Replacement Get Tag List From Oil_Production E Select to generate by Batch Get Batch From Get Batch Definition From Dialog has 2 additional options for report generation Make Dynamic Tag Replacement and or Select to generate by Batch By default both check boxes will be disabled o If Make Dynamic Tag Replacement option is enabled then the Get Tag List From combo box below will be filled with the list of all web combo box objects which have the Tags List and Report Instances functions If in real ti
214. cating that Advanced visualization is enabled in this object Advanced options ay Example of Alarm table Heure de debut Heure Acq All Alarms Heure de Fin Texte de lAlarme 30 06 07 14 00 00 30 06 07 15 00 00 30 06 07 16 00 00 30 06 07 17 00 00 30 06 07 18 00 00 017 07 07 07 00 00 01 07 07 08 00 00 01 07 07 09 00 00 0107 07 10 00 00 01 07 07 11 00 00 01 07 07 12 00 00 01 07 07 13 00 00 017 07 07 14 00 00 01 07 07 15 00 00 017 07 07 16 00 00 01 07 07 17 00 00 017 07 07 18 00 00 30 06 07 14 30 00 30 06 07 15 30 00 30 06 07 16 30 00 30 06 07 17 30 00 30 06 07 18 30 00 01 07 07 07 30 00 01 07 07 08 30 00 01 07 07 09 30 00 01 07 07 10 30 00 01 07 07 11 30 00 01 07 07 12 30 00 01 07 07 13 30 00 01 07 07 14 30 00 01 07 07 15 30 00 01 07 07 16 30 00 01 07 07 17 30 00 01 07 07 18 30 00 307 06 07 15 00 00 30 06 07 16 00 00 307 06 07 17 00 00 307 06 07 18 00 00 30 06 07 19 00 00 01 07 07 08 00 00 01 07 07 09 00 00 01 07 07 10 00 00 017 07 07 11 00 00 01 07 07 12 00 00 01 07 07 13 00 00 017 07 07 14 00 00 01 07 07 15 00 00 01 07 07 16 00 00 01 07 07 17 00 00 01 07 07 18 00 00 017 07 07 19 00 00 m w w i a waa Dw A D w o a A Production Starts Starts System Valves Open Mixer runs Enter Settings Value Batch can Progress Motor Runs Timer in Pragress Valve Open Production Starts Valve Closed Purnps 100 in Progress Valve In Closed Tank Filled 60 Confirm Settings Tank Filled 192
215. ce If Submit action is selected there will be no special action parameters to configure Report fields will be checked for correct data and if report validation is passed the data will be recorded into the database If Refresh report action is selected Dream Report will read all data entered manually in edit boxes combo boxes tables etc calculate all statistical objects located in the actual displayed report using that data and refresh data of all objects in the currently displayed web report please see the pic below Select Action Action Parameters Make Dynamic Tag Replacement Get Tag List From Production E Select to generate by Batch Dialog has 2 additional options for refreshing a report Make Dynamic Tag Replacement and or Select to generate by Batch By default both check boxes will be disabled o If Make Dynamic Tag Replacement option is enabled then the Get Tag List From combo box below will be filled with the list of all web combo box objects which have the Tags List and Report Instances functions If in real time in a web report the selected web combo box object has no selected value the report will be generated without any dynamic replacement If during report generation the selected combo box has the value s selected the report will be generated with original tags replaced by the web combo box selection either by other tags tag set selected in a web combo box object or
216. ce in the report 160 Dream Report Advanced SQL Condition Ocean Data Systems Ltd The Advanced SQL condition SQC enables you to apply additional filtering to the data Advanced SQL condition is configured as the WHERE clause of an SQL command and will be added to the main conditions defined in the data object such as the time period source item name etc User can enter any valid SQL condition using any field or column from the table which is included in the main definition of the data object NOTE SQC cannot contain conditions which are related to data tables other than the one associated with the data object Data item and item s from SQL condition should be located in the same table row To simplify entering a condition pick the condition from the Select Data Item group of controls Just select the data source item name and click on the Add button The item name will be inserted in the format i lt ltem Names Afterwards it will automatically be converted into a valid SQL expression For details please see List of Dynamic Tokens section You can set conditions which refer to the value of a Statistical field rather than the constant value Select an existing data object in the same report from the combo box just below the SQL condition edit box and click on the Add button The selected field will be added to the SQL condition in the format of f lt Field Name gt If the SQC contains a field name
217. ch start time and end time If the table where batch information is stored doesn t include Batch Start Time and Batch End Time columns select the Defined by data item option This option will require only Batch ID column where Batch ID will be recorded periodically In the Data ltem for Batch ID section select data source and data item containing batch ID Then click OK and batch definition will be completed NOTE Batch process must be continuous and there will be no time interval between consequent batches Batch Start Time will correspond to the Timestamp of the first value of the defined batch as explained in the formula below Batch_Start_Time Batch_N Timestamp_of_First_Value Batch_N where Batch_N is ID of the defined batch Batch End Time will correspond to the timestamp of the first value of the next batch with the difference of 1 second as explained in the formula below Batch_End_Time Batch_N Timestamp_ of_First_Value Batch_N 1 1s where Batch_N is ID of the defined batch and Batch_N 1 is ID of the next batch 30 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Batch Start Time and Batch End Time will have time resolution of 1 second msec will be ignored Once batch definition is completed click OK and continue designing your project During report generation Dream Report will automatically go to the database analyze the values of a tag defined for the batch recognize the start and end times of the batch and will then ap
218. ch to select a fixed period as seen below Select time penod option Fixed Period Selecting Fixed Calendar Time mode allows user to define all objects in the report based on predifined fixed penod Le last 1 day will comespond to period of complete past day from midnight tll midnight Last 2 monthis Ss Start Date and Tine Duration Dy Time i hour s 7 17 00 00 NE Last means previous complete i e if the current time is 14 32 then the Last hour will be 13 00 14 00 Current means the incomplete in progress period If the current time is 14 32 then the Current hour will be 14 00 14 32 Combining a mode Lasi Current time unit and number of units you can compile any time period i e Last 3 years Current 6 months etc If the check box Duration is checked then specify how long the duration of the fixed period will be and it will modify appropriately the end time Example If today is April 29 and you specify the fixed period Last 2 months and Duration 1 month then Start period will be defined by Last 2 months i e Feb and March i e start of the period will be February 1 End of the period will be defined by Duration i e 1 month i e the end date will be February 1 1 month March 1 The section Start Date and Time may define when the start and end date and time for the specified fixed period are Example The Last 7 day period means the period from midnight last day un
219. ched e f you search for the specific tag item from the specific data source you can type part of the name of the data source you need in the Data Source edit box and when you click Search Next the search and replace mechanism will show all tag items and all the data sources where these items have been found both external and Dream Report Example If you have tag item Tank 1 recorded both into the Dream Report and external historian simulation drivers then if you type Sim into the Data Source edit box and click Search Next the search and replace mechanism will show all tag items with the name Tank 7 in all drivers that have the part of the name Sim in their driver logical name both from Dream Report and External History e lf you need to find the specific tag item from the specific data source check the Matching Source Type check box Then while searching for the selected item from the selected database the search and replace mechanism will show only the data sources that have the same complete data source name as defined in the Data Source edit box Example If you want to find tag items that have the name Tank 2 and are recorded into the Dream Report simulation driver for real time values and this driver has Simulation 1 as its driver logical name then if you type only part of the name Sim in the Data Source edit box and check Matching Source Type check box then when you click Search Next the message box No Data Address was fo
220. ches will mean the last 2 batches including the one which is in process now e f you select Calculated time period option the following period definition control will appear Time Definition Calculated time period ki Start of report period End of report period Select calculated report object Select calculated report object Tank 1 Tank 2 r This option allows you to set start and end of period using the result of calculation You can select any Statistical object from the combo box to calculate start and end of the period where those objects must have statistical function returning a timestamp Timestamp of first value or Timestamp of last value or Timestamp of min value or Timestamp of max value or Batch Start time or Batch end time Also it can be an expression object which was doing operations with timestamp and which result is also a timestamp If you select Manual Input from the Define time period combo box you will be able to select a Timestamp Picker object for Date and for Time as seen below Define time period Manual Input k Date Time Timestamp i lt Not Used gt Date and Time drop down boxes contain the list of manual Timestamp Picker objects defined in that specific report If Timestamp Picker selected in the Date combo box has Date and Time format defined then the Time combo box can include the same selection as in the Date combo box or can have selection lt Not Used gt If
221. ciation with the entered values and is available ONLY in WEB reports please also see Manual Data Entry section To add this object click on the command button Timestamp Picker on the Web Elements ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar in the Dream Report Designer Studio menu see pic below rrr wz Home Connegdiuh g joo e E gS Hyperlink Action Comb Timestamp Button Box Picker Web Form Elemen Project Web Elements Draw a rectangle in the workspace where the output data will be displayed The following Timestamp Picker Configuration dialog box will be opened Timestamp Picker Configuration PA Object name Flow_data_time_1 Default Value Format Date and Time Visible in PDF Object Name must be a unique logical name which will be used for each Timestamp Picker object in order to be able to reference any of those specific date time objects in the data entry objects Default Value allows users to configure which timestamp value this object will display as a default The Default Value combo box has the list of all Timestamp Picker objects and simple statistical objects Single Data Objects Compound and Expression Objects already defined in that report so that the user can select one object to control default values in others Also the Default value combo box has an entry Current time so every Timestamp Picker object will always display current time by default This entry will be displayed by defa
222. ck the Add button The new scheduler record will be added to the scheduler list To delete a scheduler record select a record to be deleted and click the Remove button The selected record will be deleted To modify an existing scheduler record select the record to be modified the day of the week The Set Time edit box will display the current definition of that scheduler record Enter the new time in the Sei Time edit box and selected desired days of the week in the Execute On group of days of the week check boxes After scheduler record settings editing is finished click the Modify button The selected record will be modified with the new settings TIP If user wants to disable report generation on schedule he can remove the Daily Weekly settings by clicking on the Remove button please see the picture below i Execute On Daily or Weekly Report Set Time Mon 12200200 Tue Set Time A le Wed a Thu p Fr Psat H Sun Cyclic Report Generation If the Execute Report Each option will be selected then reports will be generated automatically in a periodical cycle using the period defined in the combo box The period is entered in the format hh mm ss When defining cyclic generation it s also influenced by the days of the week You can define on which days reports will be created You can enter any period from 00 00 01 up to 23 59 59 We recommend not scheduling reports more frequently than every 10 minutes
223. click Configure IIS button you will have to agree to save the backup of your Web Portal configuration in the IIS configurator window which will pop up user will have to click Yes please see the picture below ISconfigurator ee Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd j Do you want to backup the actual content of your project web files v Web Portal Report Generation The web portal enables you to browse the list of reports of the currently running project browse any generated report file for any report of the entire running project and to generate a new report In order to generate a new report your project folders must have full rights permission for Everyone Dream Report sets this property automatically for all newly created reports However this may need to be set manually in report projects which were copied from another computer from CD ROM etc You can create reports either with the original time definition or with dynamic generation These two ways to generate reports are available either from the main page for each report or from the detail page of each report 1 From the main report page you can either click on the standard generation New Report button or the dynamic report generation New Dynamic Report button 2 From the detail page you can also click on the standard generation New Report button or the dynamic report generation New Dynamic Report button Web Portal toolbar There are so
224. cording to the number of the retrieved columns e Statement AS is not supported by the query parser so SQL queries such as SELECT abs AS Param1 shouldn t be used The Display Columns list defines which columns will be displayed as well as their order width and caption The left row of check boxes enables and disables the appropriate column display in the table The Caption column defines the caption of each column of the table If you wish to change the caption of any column double click on the appropriate caption inside the column and it will be available for editing The right set of check boxes Sort By will define by which column the data will be sorted Only one column can be selected Radio buttons below Sort In will define the sort direction ascending or descending The Font Properties controls enable you to set different font properties for the table title table header and the displayed data in columns The Max Number of Rows edit box allows you to specify the maximum number of rows to display in the table This enables a user to protect the report from an overflow When defining the maximum number of rows you can set which cut of all data set you would like to display the first or the last block of data This can be defined by selecting an appropriate radio button List rows from Start or List rows from End 188 NY Alarm Table Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Alarm Table is a dynamic object which d
225. ct combo box will be automatically filled with the list of report objects of the following type Single Data Objects Compound Data Objects Expression Data Objects Combo boxes Date Time pickers All project parameters configuration will be saved in the project database in the table InternalProjectParameters 58 D User Management Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd User Management General This functionality allows users to define user user group authorization and authentication for access to different project modules The User Management dialog box provides an interface to define users and their access rights The number of users is unlimited If you want to enable other users to have access to the Dream Report project first check the Enable User Authorization check box in the General section of the Project Settings dialog box and click on Define Users button The following dialog box will be opened Usm Managemrnt X Upas and Gipupg Upe inigumaion List of Upes List of groupes Lagi Chetined Users lechiuppii wachrenisn iti arene erniet Parmaord Udas techricisi CETT Conhm Pasivend Account is disabled Lee pelated biie User Authonestion Select Language for that user Engish i 4 Account egaet or Mwin authentication Gorup Hama ed Peal s e Ure Windows Authenieaorn maintenance a ee dese ad Deea sinai Authorzation oe Cancel Accy This dialog box will be also opened
226. ct name oval Europea Fort Coke Back Coby lf a user wants the name of the indicator to appear on C the picture he will have to enable the Show object name box User can also define typeface for the defined objects Or Caruel in the Font settings part of the Grade definition dialog window NOTE Grade definition dialog window will appear if Indicator object on the defined indicators tree is selected 212 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd The grades and the indicators defined will be displayed as on the picture below Grade If a user will select one of the indicators from the list then the following dialog window will be opened Indicatot obyoct detindsan x Data Defirstion ET aches sto Appearance BD water Show Label Show Unis Electacty kWh gt Stew Value 7 Cole Preece Coles Fort vethe G ans jE oaar A gt Label Vale Alay Shin n E i a iBi 7 ft isd Delete Fort Coku Back Cole OK Cancel In the Display Options section a user can enable displaying labels units values and the color for each indicator selected from the list The typeface for each indicator object selected can be defined in the Font Settings section of the Appearance dialog window 213 Click OK and the picture of the result indicator object will appear as displayed on the picture below Electricity Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Example This picture is an example of the ndicator Object where
227. ction Ocean Data Systems Ltd Add alarm group Genel Group Mame blerngs 2 Group Desenption Prony Fite lam 1 Defne Alen Fike Record Aabe Fecod Conditions cence 100 Dream Report Alarm Group Definition Logging Schedule Ocean Data Systems Ltd When the Alarm Group Definition dialog box is opened a user can click on the Record Rate floating splitter and the Logging Schedule page will be opened Here a user can define the rate and schedule of alarm logging for the group Section Record Period defines a schedule for the active logging period If Record Time Schedule is e unchecked the logging period will always be active i e Dream Report will always log alarms into a database e checked user can define one or more periods where the logging period will be active and alarms will be logged Then all other periods of time except those defined in a schedule will be passive and the alarms will not be logged To add active period a user has to specify the time FROM absolute time format the time TO absolute time format and check the days of the week this time period will be active Day Settings Click the ADD button to add a record to the list Each record may have its own weekly schedule lf a user will select any record in the list and will click the Modify button the selected record will get the current values from the edit boxes and check boxes The Remove button will remove the selected
228. ctionary section Apply report template rules e Apply report settings check box defines report settings such as report naming rule generation schedule report target configuration etc If this check box is checked then report settings from the report template will overwrite actual reports settings If this check box will be unchecked then the report will remain with the original report settings e Apply export to Excel settings check box defines if Excel report configuration will be applied from report template to your report If this check box is enabled then Excel report configuration will be applied to your report and overwrite existing Excel configuration if it exists If this check box is unchecked then Excel report configuration will not be applied to your report from the report template If the option Replace existing report objects will be selected then all the entire content of the applied report template will replace all existing objects in the report and will make that report the exact copy of the applied template If the option Add templates to existing report objects will be selected then the report objects will be added to your report in addition to the existing ones If position of any existing object will be the same as from any new object from the template such objects will be overlaid one on top of the other 239 NY e Time replacement option enables users to apply report template applying desired time period
229. ctivity Project Web Elements Tools Runtime B Z 6 E oe fk General Data Bas Log Hotbackup Localization Tag Project Parameters Edit project Version Definition configuration Paths File configuration Dictionary Definition users control Project Settings User Management The predefined remote station list is created in this dialog box User has to specify a list of each logical station name and its URL Station localhost with URL localhost DRWeb is always added automatically for a local Dream Report project Alias name for local web server is a name which Dream Report will use for a new virtual folder It will be automatically created on every project start To have access to a project in the Dream Report Web Portal each time a new project is started user will have to configure IIS Internet Information Services for that project manually by clicking on the Configure IIS button When configuring IIS the IIS configurator window will pop up asking Do you want to backup the actual content of your project web files and a user will have to agree by clicking Yes If the IIS configuration process has succeeded user will get the message IIS configuration has been successfully completed Otherwise he will have to check the reason for the IIS configuration failure NOTE If Internet Information Services IIS are not installed in your operating system you will get the message box Can t configure IIS Web portal is not enab
230. d please see Tag Dictionary section lf this dialog is opened from the existing report template which has tag dictionary defined then it will be filled with tag descriptions from the template Source and ltem name columns will contain a small button browse When user clicks on it the following Data Item Picker dialog window will appear Data Item Picker yd Select Data ltem Dream Report History External History Server Data Source ODBC historical values ltem Name Quen Temp Cancel If a user clicks OK in this item selection dialog window source name and item name will be set into the list control The source type Dream Report History or External History Server will be saved for each entry separately as well If source name or and item name is defined in the list control and a user calls the item selection dialog window then Select Data Item window will be opened with existing selection filled in lf a user double clicks either into the Source name column or into the Item name column the cell will be opened for manual text editing For details on how to configure tag dictionary please go to the Tag Dictionary section NOTE 1 Once the selected template is added to the report each template element will be available for editing as an independent object Further report modifications will not affect its report template design and also further template modifications will
231. d according to the selected option described above Level for project log messages combo box enables configuring the level to control which message of the severity of the event that has occurred will be actually printed out to the log 2 options are available e Normal it is the default log level where only the events with a severity of NOTICE or greater will be logged OK Caca Apo e Debug it is the level where all events will be logged and its debugging messages will be very important for diagnosing configuration problems Multi session log file mode The Dream Report log file can manage info logging in 2 different ways e single session mode each time a project is started a new log file will be created e multi session mode each time a project is started Dream Report will continue info logging in the same existing log file just putting a note that a new session was started This is managed by the Use multi session log file check box If this check box is enabled the multi session mode will be maintained If this check box is disabled then the single session mode will be maintained Level foe project bog messages Hoima wF ClUse muktisession log He Hotbackup Conhguration Locakzalion 53 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Hot Backup Redundancy Configuration lt is possible to run a local reporting runtime node as a redundant station coupled with the main station There is no special configuration r
232. d data For more details please refer to the Correction Factor section ADF to be used enables to select an aggregated data filter ADF to be used combo box will contain all ADF definitions configured in the project The default string will be Not Used i e no filter ADF is applied For details on ADF definition configuration please go to the Aggregated Data Filter section of this manual For each selected function you can define the format by clicking on the selected statistical function and double clicking the button for the following advanced settings e Column Caption e Settings e Units For details please see the Result Representation section e Precision of result after decimal point For details please see the Result Representation section Show result as For details please see the Result Representation section Advanced options For details please see the Advanced Visualization Settings section e Advanced SQL Conditions For details please see Advanced SQL Condition section The Automatic Statistical Table enables you to add a Footer This footer can have multiple lines which can include static text Expression or Compound data objects Data from all table cells objects can be stored in the Dream Report database for further use using the analytical driver Time Definition which defines the period for statistical calculations for this object is described in the Time Definition section of this m
233. d date and time Its format is dd mm yy hh mm ss or dd mm yy hh mm ss r is relative date and time mode lt start of period gt defines the start date and time Its format is dd hh mm ss Where dd hh mm ss is a number of days hours minutes seconds back from the current time lt end of period gt defines the end date and time Its format is dd hh mm ss Where dd hh mm ss is a number of days hours minutes seconds back from the current time Batch based command line parameters generate exe lt report name gt br lt Batch Name gt lt mode gt lt count gt batch based report generation lt Batch Name gt specifies name of batch definition which will be used to get batch IDs for report generation lt mode gt specifies batch mode It can have 2 possible values Last or Current lt count gt specifies how many batch IDs to include into the range It may have only positive whole values e g 1 2 om Example generate exe Energy Report br Prod Batch Last 1 will generate report for 1 last batch using Prod Batch batch definition generate exe lt report name gt ba lt Batch Name gt lt StartBatchID gt lt EndBatchID gt absolute batch based generation lt Batch Name gt specifies name of batch definition which will be used to get batch IDs for report generation lt StartBatchID gt specifies start batch ID lt EndBatchID gt specifies end batch ID This option will generate report for th
234. d if you don t want to generate the report automatically by schedule Click Next to go to the next step of project creation Click Back to go one step back to re configure or check project configuration Click Close to exit Project Wizard without any operation performed Event The next step of project creation enables or disables event based report generation First the Reports Event window will be opened ream Report Project Creating Wizard E names Project Name Dream Report can generate this report on event ea lf a real time tag value changes and its value fits into the pre Connectivity T defined condition the report will be automatically generated cameraman Data Archrarey _ Batch Definition l m a Do you want this report to be automatically generated on a tag value change event Reports Name F zii g Schedule ew Please select a tag and specify condition for report generation y Data Source Distributic aoe hen Name Page Design Select tags be a dm o a e f No radio button is enabled click Next and you will go directly to the next step of report configuration Reports Distribution please see the description in the Distribution section below e f Yes radio button is enabled please select data source data item event condition and enter a condition value in the combo box that will appear The browse button will open the Select Data Item combo box It
235. d will be February 1 End of the period will be defined by Duration i e 7 month i e the end date will be February 1 1 month March 1 The section Start Date Time may define when the start and end date and time for the specified fixed period are Example The Last 1 day period means the period from midnight last day until midnight today Using start date you can count 1 day not from midnight to midnight but from and to the time specified in the Start Date Time field Example If the start time is 07 00 00 then Last 1 day period will be accounted not from midnight last day until midnight today but from 07 00 00 last day until 07 00 00 today If the user specifies last or current day week then only Start time is available If the user specifies period Last or Current month or quarter or year then both Start Date and Time will be available 164 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd e f you select Absolute or relative period definition in the Define time period combo box then you must specify the start and end time for the period Define time period Absolute or relative period definition hi Start of report period End of report period Absolute Date Time hi Relatiwe Date Time hi 44 2011 v Days Days Wooo hh mm ss back 44 99 99 bhimo ss back The Start and End of time of the period can be defined using 4 options Absolute date time e Relative date time e Absolute date Relative time e Relative date Absolute
236. data item selection control which enables you to select a data item which will be assigned to X scale In this case Dream Report will display X Y chart and display a line based on the correlated points between values of an item defined for X scale and values of an item defined for Y scale e Date and Time the X scale will display a timestamp User will be able to select a timestamp format from a combo box Check box Show absolute time on X axis enables displaying timestamp in absolute format e g April 29 2008 07 28 00 Check box Show relative time on Y axis enables displaying timestamp in relative format e g 00 00 00 10 00 20 etc it will display amount of hours minutes seconds from the starting point of the time of that line Time format will be automatically set depending on the time value which has to be displayed e g if timestamp doesn t contain hours then only minutes and seconds will be displayed If both check boxes are checked then two X scales will be displayed displaying both absolute and relative time Enable scale X Enable scale Y check boxes allow to display on the X Y axis of the chart data items configured User can select items to be displayed on the X Y axis in the Attach X axis to Attach Y axis to combo boxes Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Line Chart Appearance If a user clicks on the Appearance bar the Chart Appearance configuration tab will be opened Chest z i Wit
237. ded in a separate column where the name of the column is considered as a tag name Below you can see an example of a data table with the Column item architecture Data lable ae x Lpo tne Batch Courter Moon Mao Motors tempt Temgis BESS 73122007 120000 Batch 8s 649 1 ag MAS 23122007 130000 Batch amp ESD 0 0 0 w5 8660 23 122007 140000 Batch 64 651 i 1 w 8663 23 12 2007 150000 Batch B4 652 0 0 0 a7 Gee 23 12 2007 160000 Batch _ Bs 653 1 7 1 s9 63 3 122007 170000 Batch Bs AS 0 0 wa 8664 23 122007 190000 Batch Bs es i 3 1 j 8885 M4122077 00 Batch 8 Eb 0 0 0 2 RES 24122007 80000 Batch amp BA 1 39 fa BS 2412 2007 9 00 00 Batch 64 658 0 0 0 4 WER 27419 WH 10TH Rarek AA ERG i EN w Recor 14 3 gt Pt oe of aro lt gt Any database enables connectivity to the database tables with the structure where data is recorded in 3 or 4 columns Tag name Tag value Timestamp optional 2 columns for timestamp time and milliseconds Below you can see an example of a data table with the Any database architecture E dbo BwAnalogTable Table Sela TagName_ LlogDate Vae WxCamBhillRwsChirdl 070908 12 52 00 0 38375 WxCarmBhillRwsReslev 070908 12 52 00 3 1125 WxCariCamWtpCramm 07 09 08 12 52 00 0 4125 WxCamCamv vipCrd8 07 09 08 12 52 00 0 000625 07 09 08 12 52 00 6 864375 WxCariCamWtpCrtur 070908 12 52 00 1 25 Welai l anAAnNnamm n7manalt 49 mM N WRTS Record 14 4 gt Tot l
238. der to make changes asked by end user Version Control Elements The following operations report layout changes will be considered as a change e Changing object configuration tags time appearance etc e Deleting an object e Adding a new object e Moving object location 66 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Report Settings General Report Settings is a dialog box where output properties of a report are configured To configure report settings right click on the report tree in the Report Designer Studio and select Report Seitings from the context menu Virtual Report Instances Apply Page Template Apply Report Template Save As Page Ternplate Save As Report Template Copy Report To Folder Delete Report The Report Settings dialog window will be opened Report Settings i gt Project Reports List General Alarm Tables Automatic Statistica Tat Report Name Bacteriological Report Alarm Tables Ba Graphs BS Batch info Report Description of Report Batch Trend a Charts v Data Tables Report storage Demo Batch Report Energy Effoency Repor Copy report fies to folder Equipment avadab ity re Fuoride Monthly Report GW Monthly Operating Fi D Windows folder FTP neces User Authentication Monthly Operating Repo togn Hha Pie Graphs Report Energy Report Maintenance Report Production Create yearly subfolders Report Refinery Lirit report fies storage Create monthly subfolders Re
239. details of the web combo box object functions please see Combo Box section of this manual 378 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd v If Get Batch Definition From option is enabled then the combo box below will be filled with the list of all data objects combo boxes single data objects which include batch definitions please see the picture below Select Action Generate Report Action Parameters List of Reports Production_ Report kall List of defined report instances Make Dynamic Tag Replacement Get Tag List From s Select to generate by Batch Get Batch From Get Batch Definition From f objecti 7 The report will be generated in PDF Excel format for the selected batch definition To enable the action button with Generate Report action as an internal hyper link user can click on Configure button and the Internal Hyperlink Parameters Configuration Dialog window will be opened For details on how to configure internal hyper link please go to the corresponding part of the Result Representation section of this manual e lf Generate PDF action is selected then when user will select this option current report view will be saved as PDF in a PDF file in the reports folder Report file name and location will be taken from the corresponding report settings e lf Login with different user action is selected there will be no special action parameters to configure The current user will be lo
240. dialog window will be opened see pic on the right Step Table Data Definition In the Object Description section you can specify general information related to an object To create a step table define how many columns that table will contain what the content of each column will be and also the general table time period and the period for each row 1 step In the Number of columns edit box enter a number of columns the table will contain The data definition of each column is defined in the Appearance section of the Step Table definition window The Define time period group box defines a time period for the entire table Time period definition is described in detail in the Time Period Definition section The Step Period section defines a period for each row of the table It has 5 options Time based Batch based Step number is value range based Step number is value based and Step number is based on all item values If Time based option is selected you can enter any integer number from 1 to 86400 and time second s min s hour s day s week s month s quarter s year s in the time unit combo box Step Table x Dais Def rition Object Desorption Energy Production 4 Number of coloumns Define time period Absolute or relative period definition Start of report period End of report period Aksoe Date Time Ansoute Date Time 7 11 12011 De i 4 012 Uma gt l Ahmm beck 12 00 00 12 00 00
241. dow will be opened please see the picture below 327 NY Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd E WW Suitelink Configuration Themes configuration Mame Type Desmipton i 4 It p _Import Add Advanced aprons ok cancer SuiteLink Connection Configuration First configure properties for the SuiteLink protocol driver by clicking on Advanced Options button The SuiteLink Protocol properties window will be opened please see the picture below SuiteLink Protocol properties Mode name localhost Applicaton VIEW Topic Tagname Dne setings Timeout ms 5000 Attempts 1 Idie ms 1 a ee In this window please specify Node name the type of connection to WW product either local or remote local by default Application the type of Wonderware application you will connect to VIEW connection to InTouch driver by default Topic the name of the virtual folder where the list of tags will be stored Tagname by default Driver settings time when the PC got no response during SuiteLink connection Timeout 5seconds by default attempts to connect Attempts 1 by default and the waiting time between attempts Idle 1 second by default Click OK to finish SuiteLink connection configuration 328 N Item Definition Click on Ado button to add define items tags which you need to receive using SuiteLink connection please see the picture belo
242. drivers that enables to connect to a server and to get data Data source selection will be displayed as a tree The first browse level will be the list of the data source vendors All first level browse will be displayed as folders When the type of driver will be selected from the Data source tree it will automatically appear in the Driver logical name box for configuration To configure communication settings button Configure will open the driver configuration dialog box Each driver has its own configuration user interface which depends on the specific protocol needs If driver doesn t have any configuration interface that button will be disabled When source is configured it can be added to the general list of data sources defined in the project by clicking on Add button The source configured will appear in the Defined drivers list Button Delete will delete the selected source from the list NOTE If you need to configure the same driver more than once then after having configured it the first time you ll just need to click in the Select Data Source Type field on any other driver and then go back to the driver that you need to configure When all the communication settings for the project are done click on OK and the driver configuration will be finished For help information on a specific driver use please refer to the specific driver information in the Communication Drivers section NOTE When changing the def
243. e If you connect ODBC driver to a big database where getting browse of tags takes a lot of time in order to avoid losing time for each browse ODBC driver offers a function to save list of all found tags into a text file during the first connection Then it will not connect to a database each time when tag browse is requested It will take it from that text file In order to switch on this option please check the Use text file to save item list check box In order to reset a browse from the text and refresh it delete a text file it s created in the System directory and then during next database connection the driver will establish database connection create a new tag browse file and save list of tags in it again 7 Data mapping for alarms If you connect ODBC driver to an alarm database please select a table with alarm archive from the left table list Alarm History Data Then select appropriate column names from the combo boxes below as follows Table Field for Alarm ID column which contains alarm IDs optional has to be numeric Table Field for Alarm Text column which contains alarm text Table Field for Alarm Priority column which contains alarm priority has to be numeric Table Field for Start Time column which contains alarm start time Table Field for Ack Time column which contains alarm acknowledge time optional Table Field for End Time column which contains alarm end time optional NOTE timestamp forma
244. e calculates the time period when the value was recorded into the database as 1 Example if the motor was turned on during the period between 12 00 and 14 00 then the item value of the motor performance was recorded as 1 non zero during this time period So the period of 2 hours will be considered as the running time up time of the motor performance Down Time calculates the time period when the value was recorded into the database as 0 Example if the motor was turned off during the period between 14 00 and 17 00 then the item value of the motor performance was recorded as zero during this time period So the period of 3 hours will be considered as the down time of the motor performance System availability calculates and displays which part of the total defined period the system was available The calculation is done as follows first calculate the duration when the selected item had a non zero value Afterwards this time period is divided by overall time period associated with that of the object and is multiplied by 100 The result is the percentage of the overall period the item had a non zero value Example If we calculate the system availability between 12 00 and 14 00 where between 12 00 and 13 00 the item value was 1 and between 13 00 and 14 00 item value was zero then the time period where this item was non zero is 1 hour 12 00 13 00 out of 2 hours in total 12 00 14 00 so 2 4 100 50 So the result of this
245. e 5 ts 12 01 10 525 and value 6 ts 12 01 10 750 Result only last value will be recorded with the timestamp value 6 ts 12 01 11 because both values are rounded to the same second and always only the last one will be logged Example 3 If resolution is set to 200msec and the following value is coming value 5 ts 12 01 10 750 Result the value 5 will be recorded with the timestamp 12 01 10 800 Data Logging Time The timestamp of logged item values and or alarms will be logged using both the local time of the computer where Dream Report is running and the UTC GMT time format Data Logging and Database Organization In Dream Report 4 generation a completely redesigned database structure has been introduced It allows Dream Report to raise data logging up to 10 times Data Archiving If user clicks on Advanced Options button the Database Archiving Configuration Dialog window will be opened In this configuration window user will be able to configure periodic archiving of internal Dream Report database For details on the configuration of database archiving please refer to the Database Archiving Configuration section of this manual Useful tips Which database is better to use MS Access can be used only for small size projects MS Access is limited in size to 2Gb but when your MS Access database mdb file reaches the size of several hundreds Mbytes you can start to experience problems so we recommend to use MS Acc
246. e Configure Tags List button will remain disabled In this window you can configure the applying settings of the selected report template if needed to be applied for your report page template created in the Project Wizard e Apply report settings check box defines report settings such as report naming rule generation schedule report target configuration etc If this check box is checked then the report settings from the report template will overwrite actual reports settings If this check box will be become unchecked then the report will remain with the original report settings e Apply export to Excel settings check box defines if Excel report configuration will be applied from report template to your report If this check box is enabled then Excel report configuration will be applied 40 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd to your report and overwrite existing Excel configuration if it exists If this check box will be become unchecked then the Excel report configuration will not be applied to your report from the report template e Tag configuration If the current loaded template has any entry ies in the tag dictionary then the Configure Tags List button will become enabled If the current template has no tag dictionary defined or it s originated from older versions then the Configure Tags List button will be disabled If you click on the Configure Tags Lis button the Project Tag Dictionary window will be opene
247. e Display Legend displays a legend box It can ee Legand be displayed on the right side or on the bottom bini Bodar of the pie el Display Value e Display Border displays a line between pie F Display Percertage slices and on its edges The line color for the border can be adjusted rc e Display Value displays numeric value for each Me a aye E slice The value is placed inside each slice and Blew a fl e the font properties decimal precision and Ain measure units are adjustable Oakes i e Display Percentage displays percentage E Fork Gola Back Goko of each slice within 100 for all slices The ea mg percentage is displayed next to each slice Select und to add to on Display Style defines text display options for different mia Precanen of result alter decamal pori parts of the chart 3 Title when this radio button is selected you can specify the font type and size for the chart title Also you can select text alignment font style font color and background color for the title text Advanced SOL Condition To use a transparent background color for the ox cerca title open the background color palette and select No color This option is only applicable when Display Name check box is enabled Legend when this radio button is selected you can specify the font type and size for the legend Also you can select the position of the legend either on the bottom or on the right side of the chart Also you
248. e Network Select Server Matrikon OPC Simulation 1 Test Connection Refresh Server List cancel The OPC AE real time alarms driver is configured in the same way as OPC DA real time values and OPC HDA history data access drivers NOTE The Event mode option in the OPC AE real time alarms driver configuration window allows users to record incoming messages not as alarms but only as events NOTES e f you need to configure the same driver more than once then after having configured it the first time you ll just need to click in the Select Data Source Type field on any other driver and then go back to the driver that you need to configure e If Runtime Manager runs as service then the OPC connection will work over DCOM and the OPC Server may not be fast enough to supply to the OPC client Dream Report the requested amount of data If such weak OPC driver performance may occur in order to improve it a user will have to set Runtime Manager as an application for details on Runtime mode settings please see Runtime Configuration section of this manual Main Backup server management A When loading an OPC driver it will initiate Connection to the main OPC server If suddenly communication with the main server has been broken and the driver detects communication error it will start a new thread which will cyclically try to re establish connection with the main OPC server and also open the second connection t
249. e Step table will work exactly as an Item table It will ignore statistical functions read all values of tag s selected in a column Then it will consider every value as a momentary step where Start and End of a step is the timestamp of that value and will just list all found tag values over the table period It will use the function Last Value for every timestamp period and get all tag values i e for each column definition it will get only the tag name and the function will be always ignored with the Last Value used instead Example Let s suppose that the tag Batch _Data Motor 1 has the following values in the duration of 1 hour 11 00 11 10 In this case the step table will display 7 steps with every timestamp i e it will work just as a usual item table for tags selected in the columns If tags in the columns have different timestamps they will be all put together and make one common value array and if another column doesn t have a value at that time it will display N A according to No value definition exactly as it works in the item table If step table has for example 3 columns with Min Max and Avg of the tag Batch_Data Motor 1 then all 3 columns will just list all values of the same tag 179 NY Step Table Appearance The Appearance section contains the definition of the table columns as well as the formatting options font properties colors background etc Dream Report Ocean Data Systems
250. e Version ID ID of the report version a user will need please see the description of the Version ID section below NOTE The selected dynamic object will be added in the format of s lt Field Name gt For details please see List of Dynamic Tokens section Dynamic text visual properties can be edited in the font toolbar like the properties of other text objects font size color and style 158 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Version ID lf a user selects the Version ID option but Version Control VC is disabled then the message box Version control is disabled in your project Do you want to enable version control and add this object type into report will pop up If a user will click on Yes the VC will be enabled and the dynamic text object with the Version ID type will be added to the report If a user will click on No the VC option will remain disabled and no dynamic object will be added to the report Then if a user will enable the option Enable user comments in the VC dialog box each time the report is saved the following window will pop up User Comments a It will be empty and the Save button will be disabled A user will have to enter the version comment otherwise he will not be able to continue For details please go to the Version Control section 159 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Page Number Object Page Number object allows a user to display the number of the current
251. e configuration control options Run as service or Run as application can influence the performance of Custom Archive Import Tool CAIT If CAIT is launched via Runtime Manager and import is 248 NY performed to from SQL Server please make sure that Runtime Manager is running under user who has an authorized access to SQL Server Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd 249 D Virtual Report Instances Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Virtual Report Instances is a module which enables to create multiple pre defined instances of the same report template where each instance will use the same template with different pre defined tags This will allow users to reduce the design time for cases where the same template should be used with different tags Virtual Report Instance Configuration User can create a Virtual Instance It is one or multiple instance definitions which includes the list of tags that will be used for that report instance and the logical name for that definition To create Virtual Instance click the right mouse button either on the context menu on report in the report list or on the context menu on the report page in the Report Designer studio You can also click on the command button Virtual Report Instances on the Tools ribbon icon of the horizontal toolbar or on the Virtual Report Instances command button on the vertical toolbar in the Dream Report Designer Studio menu see pic below
252. e peslomance of Motor in Batch 7 account Password specify password to your email Alias Emad Addiess account Senior Propsct Engres sence eompar oom Technical Support Engineer suppedt icomenay com SSL check box will enable disable sending Production Manager pmanager company com emails using SSL Security Socket Layer protocol which is required by some Internet email services e g Gmail ee eee _ aen Also if you need to send emails from a specific TCP IP port you can specify your port as ox Cna addition to the SMTP server address string after symbol e g smtp gmail com 2525 will mean that emails will be sent over TCP IP port 2525 Email sender Specify the name of your email account It should be specified exactly as defined in your account Some email servers may reject sending emails if this is specified differently In the Email subject specify which subject will be applied for every email This option is set for every report separately The list below contains a list of mail recipients who can be selected to send generated report files to The check box on the left from every contact indicates if that contact is selected to be recipient of this particular report or not Double clicking on any contact in the list will open a dialog box where that contact information can be edited The contact list can be imported from an ASCII file to simplify configuring
253. e printer for the report printing will be the one which check box is checked Each main printer may have one backup printer To define the backup printer you have to select a printer in the Primary printer list not to select the check box but to select the printer to make it highlight and then select one printer in the Backup printer list selecting its check box Both printer lists are populated with all printer definitions available in Windows both local and remote ones The option Print report on default printer enables printing report on the printer which is currently defined as default on that computer If this option is enabled then copying that project to another computer will make it work able to print reports without re configuring printer definitions 83 Dream Report Report Pre processor Ocean Data Systems Ltd The Report Preprocessor dialog box enables users to perform an action SQL query or stored procedure before report generation using input parameters and use the result as an input for report e g as a list of tags Report Preprocessor is a database command SQL query or stored procedure which will be performed before report generation The result of that command can be used for further report generation First in the ODBC Data Source section define the external server for getting data from please see the picture below ODBC Database Source Batch Data_List NOTE All DSNs defined in the pr
254. e properties are accessible from the same toolbar toolbar on the picture above see the marked area Line width Select a shape click on the arrow next to the Line Style button on the toolbar and select the desired line style The selected style will be applied to the line Line style Select a shape click on the arrow next to the Line Width button on the toolbar and select the desired line width The selected width will be applied to the line 111 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Adding Picture To add a bitmap picture to a report click on the Add mage button on the Edit toolbar in the Report Designer Studio Aso PY i lel aes Drawing Then click on the workspace where the upper left corner of the bitmap picture should be placed After clicking on the workspace a standard Windows Open File dialog box will be opened and a user can select an image file User can select any of three major file formats jpg bmp or gif When an image is inserted into a report it can be handled as a native Dream Report object It will be saved in the report layout file and will not require the original image picture file After adding an image it will be available to most of the object operations copy paste re size move etc NOTE An image inserted into a DR report and stored internally in a report layout file as uncompressed therefore will consume more memory while loaded to the runtime Therefore please use images with size
255. e range of batches between lt StartBatchID gt and lt EndBatchID gt DRG will identify the start time of the lt StartBatchID gt and the end time of the lt EndBatchID gt and generate report for that time period User can also specify the same batch ID both for lt StartBatchID gt and lt EndBatchID gt then the report will be generated for that 1 specified batch ID Example generate exe Energy Report ba Prod Batch 10 9937 10 9937 will generate the report for batch ID 10 9937 using Prod_Batch batch definition 268 D Runtime Configuration Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd This functionality enables users to configure controls which will be applied to the runtime service and RMC Click on the Runtime Configuration command button on the Runtime ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar both in the Dream Report Logger Studio and Dream Report Designer Studios see pic below Project Web Elements Tools Runtime Home Connectivity Runtime Configuration Fure The Runtime Configuration dialog window will be opened Runtime Settings Start Mode B Run as Service Run as Application startup Options v Start Project Automatically when Runtime Starts Start This Project with Runtime C ODS Pream Report Project Industrial Report Industrial_ Rey i gt et Current Project as Startup Level of Log Messages Noma o ia Default time period for dynamic report generator Define time per
256. e right button of the mouse click on the report context menu The report list will have a new entry Tag dictionary You can also click on Configure Tags Lis button in the Appy report template dialog window see Report Templates section Or you can click on the command button Tag Dictionary on the Tools and Project ribbon icons on the horizontal toolbar in the Dream Report Designer studio menu see pic below Tools Runtime Home Connectivity Project Web Elements 4 woe 4 setpoint analysis Custom Virtual Report Report UHH DSN Database archiving Aggregated configuration Archive Import Instances filters Import Tool Manager configuration Data Filter Tools The following Project Tag Dictionary dialog window will be opened Project Tag Dictionary x Select data source and item Search and Replace Description Data Source ltem Name ID Counter ee ODBC historical values Queryl Tank2 C ODBC historical values Query1 Temp2 1 2 ODBC historical values Query1 Tank1 2 1 ODBC historical values Query1 Mator1 3 1 ODBC historical values Query1 12 4 1 Data Item Picker x 1 1 Select Data ltem 1 Dream Report History Extemal History Server 1 Data Source ODBC historical values ltem Name Query1 Tank2 Tag Dictionary will be filled with all tags which are used in this report in various objects Columns Data Source and Item Name will be filled
257. e rtm exe generate name Report_1 instance Instance_1 batchRelPeriod batchDef MyBatch batchRel last batchCount 2 e rtm exe generate name Rep1 instance Inst1 batchAbsPeriod batchDef MyBatch batchidStart 120 batchildEnd 130 e rtm exe generate name Rep1 instance Inst1 currentTime 2010 12 02 18 00 20 e rtm exe generate name Rep1 instance Inst1 target pdf excel email printer e rtm exe generate name Rep1 instance Inst1 fileParam C Data params xml Examples of targets for the report t pdf t pdf excel t pdf excel email t pdf excel email printer NOTES e Report target printer will send output files for printing according to the printer settings of the report file format of the Dream Report Studio It means that no matter which targets have been defined in the cmd 272 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd command printer will receive only those files which have been defined in the Dream Report Studio Report Settings e If the generated report needs to be delivered to the email user must always add the generated report output format PDFor and Excel to the t email command line Example t pdf email report will be sent to the defined email with the report generated in PDF format t excel email report will be sent to the defined email with the report generated in Excel format t pdf excel email report will be sent to the defined email with the report generated in PDF and Excel format
258. e status Queued Date 8 2 2012 12 39 23 PM H MM SS Generating When the report will be generated the Runtime Management Console will fill the list of tags into the report generation command and the report will be generated for the selected tags If the tag list is empty the report will be generated as it is x If you click on button Clear list the list of selected tags will be cleared 277 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Communication Drivers List of Communication Drivers Dream Report enables you to connect to the various heterogeneous data sources and acquire real time data real time alarms and also access external proprietary history servers in order to avoid duplication of the historical data Therefore Dream Report has three types of drivers e Real Time Data Access Drivers e Real Time Alarm Access Drivers e External History Access Drivers Open communication protocols OPC Data Access DA driver Supports standard OPC DA 1 0 and 2 0 Detailed description can be found in the section OPC Drivers OPC Alarm amp Event AE driver Supports standard OPC AE Detailed description can be found in the section OPC Drivers OPC History Data Access HDA driver Supports standard OPC HDA 1 2 Detailed description can be found in the section OPC Drivers BACnet Building Automation Control Networks BACnet driver provides complete integration of Dream Report and BACnet data systems
259. e up to 64 characters long Only alphanumeric characters and _ are allowed The first character cannot be a number Apoly correction factor for all item values use e g 1000 ADF to be used Filter_1 P been Object Description allows users to quickly understand the ee ee use of the object The description can be up to 256 ee m characters long Any characters are allowed Define time period In the Select Data Item section select the data to display es The radio buttons Dream Report History and External Last ME month s x History Server define whether historical data will be taken aa Start Date and Time from Dream Report history or directly from the history of an Aeara Day _ external server using the history driver for that server SEPE nena e f Dream Report History will be selected the combo box Select Data Source will contain a list Resut Representation of data access drivers defined in the project Advanced SQL Condition e f External History Server will be selected the OKC Cancel Select Data Source combo box will contain a list of history access drivers defined in the project For Data Source and litem Name select the source and item from which Dream Report will calculate values NOTE 1 If you will select Dream Report History then you will be prompted to select a data item only from the list of data items defined in one or more logging groups within the Dream Report logger However i
260. ean Data Systems Ltd Report Template You can select an existing report template and configure settings for it Or you can create templates of entire reports to be used for creating other reports Home Connectivity Projet Webt 4a Copy Obje Zh Paste Object Cut Clipboard Quick a q E Driver s It can be used later to build similar reports A report template will save all static dynamic statistic and analytic objects within the report but also will include report settings and Excel report configuration For details on using page and report templates please refer to the corresponding topics of the Report and Page Templates section of this manual e add static objects static texts bitmap pictures background images and colours or define settings for rulers and grid to your report using the toolbar buttons or the Designer menu in the Dream Report Designer Studio please see the picture below J de TO T Home Connectivity Project Web Elemerts Tools Runtime shinai A yn Srial European s amp s WA Paste Object ime t 4D Grid Settings Report Page insert BJ oa ee 8 i he Sab tel atte oe temptate template New Page DA a gt an OT non wo ke D Ful Screen Clipooard Project Fort For details please refer to the corresponding topics of the Designer Studio section of this manual 105 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd select the dynamic objects which will disp
261. ean Data Systems Ltd e Send activation file by email to activate dreamreport net e You will receive a permanent Dream Report license shortly with an unlimited period of use 4 License linked to the custom external license Dream Report license has an option to be linked to the custom external license Actual version of Dream Report license can be linked to a specific license of iFix license number or to Wizcon license number or to PcVue license In order to link a license linked to another external license please ask your Dream Report distributor for that option and provide the ID number of your SCADA license key to be linked to 5 Special licenses System Integrator Pack Please ask your distributor or contact us at sales dreamreport net for more information NOTE Permanent software license will be operational only for a PC where the activation file was done software license is linked to the specific PC hardware profile lf Dream Report permanent license is provided as a hardware HASP USB dongle then it will not be linked to the specific computer but only to that specific USB hard lock key and will run on any computer where Dream Report USB license key is plugged in NOTE HASP protection if running on Windows Server OS types will work only under console terminal mode if set to run as an application Otherwise please set Runtime to run as a service 6 Wonderware based License This license type is provided in accordance w
262. ear Therefore to calculate this indice select an existing statistical object for water consumption select a time period which is referenced to that object and has a possibility to enter the area in m2 or ft2 The selected Statistical object value will be divided by area and then interpolated for 1 year according to the associated period e g if the associated period is 1 year the result will be multiplied by 12 Appeaance User can configure any of those preset types Energy Indicator Eco Indicator Water Indicator in the Configuration dialog window which will appear after clicking on Configure button next to the Pointer Type combo box Configuration Dialog Select Data Object Tank 3 h Deine time period Batch x E Duration Mode couri batches 3 1 200000 md i OF Cancel 211 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd The Select Data Object combo box in this dialog box will contain the list of Single Data Objects Compound and Expression objects already existing in that report AS soon as any one of the existing objects has been selected the Time Period Definition combo box will appear showing the original time period settings of the data object selected This time definition will be taken for the indicator Then define the area which the selected object may enter during the defined time period click OK and the configuration of this type of indicator Eco Water Energy will be finished Custom I
263. ed from data blocks please define data single tag import Then the EDI driver will read and import a value of a single cell For this purpose please select cells one by one and define a name for a value from that cell Tag name and a type for that value Tag value type Tag name can be also taken as a value of another cell Enable the radio button Read from the cell and select the address of the cell which will contain the name of the desired tag Or enable the radio button Manual name and enter the name of the tag manually into the edit box next to it Having defined a single tag name Tag name select the address of the cell which will contain value Tag value read from the cell and then select its type from the corresponding combo box Tag value type The Tag value type combo box has 3 entries Number Boolean and Text As soon as a new Single tag has been defined add it to the tags list by clicking the Add button You can always remove the single tags definition by clicking the Delete button When single tags definitions will be added to the Database timestamps for the value s of those tags will be taken from the Single Tag Timestamp Definition section 305 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Single tag Timestamp definition Date is located in the cell D 5 Timestamps start from the cell D 7 r NOTE There are 3 possible configuration options available here e Option 1 If the Excel file includes both Date a
264. ed from the directory C ODS Dream Report System bacstac BACnet Driver Configuration To configure BACnet Driver first open the Communication Configuration Wizard dialog window a Confusion Wizard Select Data Source Tyce Lonligun Dinner ho Sebechesd Touca Dekned Cirat Lit a nhemal a r Lepi Aly Wondere ithe 44 Aspentech Driver Logica Mame H irai GA Oras ion aiaei lt _ lt Add DDEC Alum i DDEC dwa B BACE mahine vaut Cerdigure W tin Alms E BACnet reshime aam and avari H ii Real B BACret histoncal vaiues hom meyi PE Erce Dys lmout realtime vaher B FCI abtina vakir E Modbus TCPAP A52 ASL i DDEC y OLE DE OFC BE SHMP amg vahis Pa iaci m i Data Source Chesciption BACnet hishoncal values from mend obeis k Ii Carcel Select either BACnet real time values or BACnet historical values from trend log objects driver please note that BACnet real time alarms and events doesn t need special configuration from the BACnet folder in the Select Data Source Type section Click on Configure button and the BACnet Configuration Settings dialog box will be opened BACnet Configuration Settings Items by BACnet Object ID O Items by BACnet Object Name Get Object s Browse from EDE files Numerncal Objects _ Find EDE files in sublolders Use Key Mame as Object Name Set column delemiter Build tee browse from key name Delimiter Pull data every if C
265. een start and end time Setpoint stability result calculates the result which is true or false The function gets all values of each item tag of the setpoint for the interval between start and end time of every setpoint and checks if all values of all tags are within a setpoint value tolerance If multiple setpoints have been selected this analysis will be executed separately for every setpoint The result of this function will be TRUE if all values of all tags during a stable period of each zone are within the setpoint value tolerance and will be FALSE if any value is out of range during stability periods Counter of stable periods calculates and then displays the number of the stable periods for one or several setpoints selected Rate of change before entering stability zone calculates rate of change of item tag values of the setpoint before entering stability zone for details on how to configure the criteria for this statistical function calculations please see section Setpoint Stability Analysis Rate of change after exiting stability zone calculates rate of change of item tag values of the setpoint after exiting stability zone for details on how to configure the criteria for this statistical function calculations please see section Setpoint Stability Analysis 137 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Alarm Analysis Functions e Counter of alarms calculates the number of alarms which occurred during the specified time period
266. efine conditions for data logging into the Dream Report history database ream Report Project Creating Wizar Project Name Dream Report is able to archive real time tag values into its own SE historian database Connectraty Do you want to archive your tag s real time values Data Archpang m Yea aanita seul Sie Napili sicko t Batch Detinition No thank you L val use external archeves for reporting Reports Tag Selection First the Tag selection window will be opened In this section you must select tags which you want to archive in a Dream Report historian database Connectivity Please select tags which you want to archive in a Dream Report internal Data Archiing hestorian database Batch Definition 25 N The Select tags button will open a new dialog box Select Data Items containing the complete list of all data items from the selected drivers User will be able to add or remove items from the entire item tag group The left list box of that window will contain a complete list of available items and the right list box will contain a list of items selected for the entire group Items Filter enables users to easily find an item in a list AS soon as a prefix is entered the list will be automatically filtered by the prefix Use an asterisk as a wildcard character Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd NOTE You can t proceed to the next step Logging mode until you haven t selected any t
267. eft to right However you can make it right to left by selecting the text box and using the text direction toolbar buttons selected button on the picture above 114 D Search and Replace Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Designer studio contains the Search and Replace section which helps report designer to easily find the statistical objects needed and to open their configuration dialog window as well as automatically replace data items and time period definitions throughout the currently opened report To open the Search and Replace dialog window user has to right click on any place of the object location area bottom left part of the Designer studio as displayed on the picture below Dynamic Objects Report Batch Item Fields E Draw T ables SAL Tables fe Charts The Search and Replace dialog window will be opened Search and Replace Pd Search and Replace Data Source and hen Time definition Search in all objects Search only in selected object type Select Data ltem to be searched Dream Report History External History Server Data Source ODBC ltem Mame Batch_DataMotori Select Data ltem to be replaced b O Dream Report History Extemal History Server Data Source ODBC ltem Marnie Batch _DataMotor Using this function users can automatically either search or replace a specific data item by another data item or search replace one specific or all time definitio
268. elect Duplicate Group The Delete Group menu option will delete the selected group Select Add alarm group from the context menu and the Alarm Group Definition dialog box will be opened see pic below The Alarm Group Definition dialog box has 3 tabs e General Group Definition e Record Rate Logging Schedule e Record Conditions Log on Condition 99 Dream Report Alarm Group Definition General This page defines general properties of a group as follows Unique logical name Short description if needed Selection of data source from which user will include alarms into a group Alarm priority range definition Group Name is a logical name which will distinguish the group from another group and give a tip to a user about its content Group Description allows the report developer to put comments about the purpose of a group and other related information Priority Filter specifies the priority range of alarms which will be included in the group definition If you click on Define Alarm Filter button the Alarm Filter Manager dialog window will be opened Please select from the list of defined alarm filters the priority filter from which data points will be included into a group Its name will appear in the Priority Filter box of the General tab In this window you can also define a new alarm filter or edit the properties of an existing alarm filter For details please see Alarm Filter Manager se
269. elect Item List by Group the right combo box will be filled with a list of item groups defined in a project and selecting a group will list the items from that group The lower left part contains a list of all alarm logging groups defined in a project Detailed explanation of data alarm group definition is described in the Alarm Group Definition chapter If you right click on the item list header a popup menu will appear where you can select which columns to show ltem List by Group ltem Mame Add Field Remove Field If you will select Remove Field the selected column will be removed from the list If you will select Add Field then the column definition dialog will be opened where you can select which columns you would like to add Available Coking Viele Columns ltem A ance Stalus Current Yale Date Source E Timesiamp Add A The available columns for the item list header can be Item Name Current Value Status Data Source and Timestamp There are 2 options in the Logger Studio which allow to manage the process of data logging Start Monitoring and Force Read as shown below Item List by Group Data 2 90 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd lf Start Monitoring check box is checked then the whole process of data logging data logging value changes status timestamp can be monitored or controlled lf Force Read button is clicked then the current status details of the data item logging
270. elect Server Matrikon OPC Simulation 1 Test Connection XV Server requires single client connection Refresh Server List cancel NOTE In Dream Report version 3 43 the OPC driver had one driver instance for real time data historical data and alarms configuration Now in this new version of Dream Report the OPC driver has three driver instances and should be configured separately as OPC DA real time values OPC AE real time alarms or OPC HDA history data access This dialog window has 2 options radio buttons Main OPC Server and Backup OPC Server that allow OPC driver to work in a hot backup mode and automatically switch from one OPC server to another in case of communication error being able to connect to the secured OPC servers e lf the Main OPC Server radio button is enabled you can select the computer name and the OPC server e lf the Backup OPC Server radio button is enabled the Computer Name edit box and the Select Server combo box will be empty You will be able to make another selection for the backup OPC server If the OPC server has secured password protected connection it will be possible to specify in the OPC server secured access section login and password for the connection for the selected OPC server Login and password will be set and saved separately for the main and backup servers NOTE If OPC server definition contains login and password the OPC browser and client will use it every time
271. elect one of the DSNs from that list If no DSNs have been configured yet or if user needs to configure a specific DSN he will have to click on the browse button in the Select DSN combo box and the Project DSNs Configuration dialog window will be opened For details on how to configure DSN please go to the DSN Manager section of this manual Tag values display In the Data Configuration section user has to select the tag and then when initializing the report Dream Report will read all available values of a selected tag for the defined time period from the database and display those values in the combo box Combo Boo Conliquralion Object name Defaut Yake Asagn Selection to Tag Production 1 fSobject 1 Real Time Ibam HDA Ttem Csts Source Display Data from ODAC data Tag Valuas Mult selection hen Hame gE Batch_ teBatch_ ID Cate Configuration Send Result To Dream Report Hstory Extena History Serwer Data Source O0EC_data tam Hame a Batch _1D BSath_ID Define time period Absolute or relative period definition bi Start of report period End of repart parod Absolute Date Time 7 Absolute Date Time s ano Da 6 7 2012 D TOPNE hhimmssbeck ann Amm back 14 00 00 14 00 00 gt Timestamp Date Tre All Values Advanced 50L i r i Fio data _bime_i Fiow_data_time_i g This Combo Box ie Obligatory J Visible in POF Add Def Value chot speeded User has to select a tag D
272. elected PcVue HDS database based on SQL Server 341 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd PcVue HDS Alarms driver configuration lf PCVue HDS Alarms communication driver is selected then as soon as you click on Configure button the following PcVue HDS Alarms driver configuration dialog window will be opened pn Comecon settings Alarm Siters Select loceton of SQL Server vith Preifueiie database Looe database Samia database Lagin Passerond ori baiki Daksha name Connection Settings In this window user can define connection to the PcVue alarms database which needs to be accessed The connection to the PcVueAlm database based on SQL Server can be configured either by using the SQL Server database locally Local database or remotely Remote database If the SQL server which is running the PcVueAlm database is configured with user authentication then enter login and password for the SQL Server into the corresponding edit boxes If your SQL Server is configured with Windows Authentication mode leave the user name and password edit boxes empty The Test Connect button will try to establish communication to the PcVueAlm database based on SQL Server 342 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Alarm Filters In this window user can define alarm filters and alarm filtering conditions please see the picture below Connecton setings Alarm filters Fiter name Alarm Alber settings Alarm log Refre
273. em definition has the following format lt Item name gt lt format gt lt method gt lt change rate gt lt minimum value gt lt max value gt Example Dig1 int rand 200 0 2 lt format gt can be int float bool string lt method gt can be rand const When clicking on Configure button the configuration dialog i e the dialog with virtual source selection will be prompted This list will be compiled from a list of sources mentioned in the driver configuration file In the example mentioned above the list of sources will have two sources DataSource A and DataSource_B Click on Add button and add this driver to your project Simulation Alarm Driver Configuration The configuration file of the Simulation Alarm Driver has the name dummyalarm cfg and it has the following format Alarms_ Al FireDetection Adminsitration 10 11 FireDetection Gymnasium 10 16 Intrusion East Gate 20 15 Pool_water_ temp 22 C 10 19 Outside _temp_17 C 60 19 Alarms_B Pipeline1_Speed_Low 2 10 Valve1_ Open 10 11 Valve2_ Open 11 12 Valve2_ Closed 11 13 Valve3_ Closed 12 13 Lack_of_pressure_Oilwell1 1 10 Lack_of_pressure_Oilwell3 1 12 SOURCE NAME is a definition of a virtual alarm server One configuration file can contain multiple source definitions They will be just listed one below the other like shown on example above List of alarm definitions is added one below another ri
274. em from an external database in different formats Gaich Data tenp l C Defined in external database eet Oa Location Batch in Dream Report can be defined in 2 ways according to the conmigwe Database Connection auecs Tabia way batch information is stored j Select DSN Field With Batch ID 1 If the table where batch information is stored includes r User name columns corresponding to Batch ID Batch Start Time and Batch End Time then select the Defined in external database option Use Select DSN to select the database where batch information is stored If the DSN doesn t exist create it and then continue the batch definition If the DSN is protected est Sten Batch 1D with a login and password then enter the login and password in the User name and Password text boxes Click on the Connect button and Batch Manager will connect to your database via the selected DSN 0K Conce Field With Batch Start Time Password X Field With Batch End Time After connecting to a database in the section Select Data Location specify the location of all data components needed to process the batch information e Inthe Select Table combo box select a table which contains batch information batch ID start time and end time e Inthe Field with Batch ID combo box select a table column which contains batch IDs e Inthe Field with Batch Start Time and Field with Batch End Time combo boxes select the table columns which contain the bat
275. ems driver configuration lf PCVue HDS Items communication driver is selected then as soon as you click on Configure button the following PcVue HDS Historian access configuration dialog window will be opened PcVue HDS Historian access configuration i Select location of SOL Server with Pewue HOS database This computer localhost C Remote computer Database name SQL Server authentication User name Password admin TIIT Test Connection Select Location of SQL with PcVue HDS Database Select the radio button option This computer localhost if your PCVue HDS database is located on the same computer with the Dream Report project Select the Remote computer option if your HDS database is located on a remote PC If this option is selected then in the edit box next to that option you have to type in the name or address of a remote PC where the HDS database is located In order to browse for a PC you can click on the browse button and then select your desired PC in a browse dialog box SQL Server Authentication If the SQL server which is running the PcVue HDS database is configured with user authentication then enter user name and password for the SQL Server into the corresponding edit boxes in the section SQL Server authentication If your SQL Server is configured with Windows Authentication mode leave the user name and password edit boxes empty The Test Connect button will try to establish communication to the s
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277. eport database or use it for calculations or filtering for regular reporting For details on how to configure Web portal manual data entry functions please go to the Manual Data Entry section of this manual Web Portal Activation To activate the web portal Dream Report has to be installed on a PC with a web server installed Then during installation the Dream Report installer will install all necessary files to use the web functionality Otherwise if the web server is installed later in order to be able to use the web functionality Dream Report has to be uninstalled and re installed again The ASP engine will be installed by Dream Report installer automatically as well NOTE To have access to a project in the Dream Report Web Portal each time a new project is started user will have to configure IIS Internet Information Services for that project manually by clicking on the Configure IIS button If the IIS configuration process has succeeded user will get the message S configuration has been successfully completed Otherwise he will have to check the reason for the IIS configuration failure If Internet Information Services IIS are not installed in user s operating system he will get the message box Can t configure IIS Web portal is not enabled Then IIS will have to be installed and then configured for details please see Installation Tips IIS can be configured directly either in the Web Configuration dialog box of the Pro
278. equired for the main station it should run as it is For the backup redundant node first of all it should run the exact copy of the project which is running on the main station Then to couple a backup node to the main node a user will have to open Hotbackup Configuration dialog window by clicking on the command button Hofbackup Configuration on the Project ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar either in the Dream Report Logger Studio or Dream Report Designer Studio menu see pic below a Fyrr A Home Connectivity Project Web Elements Tools Runtime E E IG po Te its E i General Data Base Web Set Log Hotbackup ocalization Tag Project Parameters Edit project Version Definition configuration Paths File Dictionary Definition users control Project Settings User Management The Hotbackup Configuration window will be opened Project Settings x In order to define the local node as a backup for the main node check the check box This node is working in a hotbackup node Then specify the IP address or PC name without just a network PC name of the PC which is running as the main station Set the IP address or name of the PC where the main node is running This field must contain a valid information and it can t be empty If you wish to test the actual connectivity to the main station you can press on the button Test Connection and the Designer Studio will try to connect to the main node If test connection
279. er when configured had only one driver instance with one two or three subdivisions according to the types of data to access for configuration i e the driver could have maximum three options available for configuration Data Driver real time values Alarm Driver and History Driver Example The ODBC History Access driver had one instance both for historical data and historical alarms configuration The Eurotherm Review driver had one instance for both real time and historical data access configuration Now in this new version of Dream Report each driver has separate instances for each type of data to access real time alarms historical values which should be configured separately Please note that after doing an upgrade from 3 43 or earlier versions all subdivisions of driver instances will have up to 4 driver instances Items DA Alarms DA Items HDA Alarms HDA Example The ODBC driver has now two instances and should be configured separately as ODBC historical values for historical data or and ODBC historical alarms for historical alarms The Eurotherm Review driver has now three instances and should be configured separately as Historical values in Review or UHH database Historical alarms messages in Review or UHH database or Real time batch monitor Though various data servers support data or and alarms or all three types of data exchange services in Dream Report user defines DATA SOURCE which can be a set of
280. er background color will not be exported The option Export to static Excel file enables users to export one or more reports to an existing Excel file rather than creating a new file each time the report is executed This gives users the option to export several reports into the same Excel spreadsheet and create consolidated reports in the same Excel file Template selection Dream Report enables selection of a specific pre formatted Excel file template for specific reports If you wish to use an Excel file template for the specific report select your report in the list and then select your Excel file template in the edit box Use particular template file in the top right part of the Excel Configuration Wizard dialog window Useful tips 79 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd e When exporting data into an Excel file and creating new Excel report files Dream Report will copy a template Excel file from a folder Untitled in the Project folder of Dream Report installation template xls file If you wish to generate custom Excel reports in pre formatted Excel files you can format the template xls file and Dream Report will always use it each time to generate Excel reports e When adding objects to an Excel spreadsheet objects are listed in the object tree by their logical names To see tables in that object tree one must specify table names by definition even if the table name is hidden in an object itself e Users that plan to
281. er can browse and select the required Review database file with erv extension Data access parameters section defines which value will be assigned to a selected data point when a new batch will be started and which value will be assigned to that data point when the actual running batch will be ended Checkup frequency rate parameter defines how often the driver will check Review database for batch events Default value is 20 seconds i e by default every 20 seconds this driver will open connection to the Review database and check for start stop batch events In order to make automatic batch report generation from Review database user has to 1 Add Eurotherm Review data access driver to the project 2 Create a batch definition based on that driver item based external data source select any data item from required area and dataset 3 Go to report settings gt Generate on event section and select any data item from the same area and dataset which was used for the batch definition and assign the required value according to the required event type end of a batch or start of a new batch History Data Alarms Access Eurotherm Review driver This driver enables having direct and automatic access to the Review archives and making reports out of that lf a user has selected either the Eurotherm Historical values in Review database driver or Eurotherm Historical alarms messages in Review database driver in the the Eurotherm folder of the Se
282. erage value for this data item calculated for the specified time period Minimum the minimum value for this data item calculated for the specified time period Maximum the maximum value for this data item calculated for the specified time period The Define time period section defines the time period for statistical calculations for this object and is described in detail in the Time Definition section of this manual The period can be time based or Baich based This is described in detail in the Batch Definition section The Manual Data Entry check box supports entering a static numeric value that will be constant during report generation This allows users to create a pie graph combining statistical data and static reference data In order to add manual data check the Manual Data Entry check box enter the constant in the edit box below select the desired color for the corresponding slice enter a label for the legend if needed and click the Add button Please note that when the Manual Data Entry check box is checked all data definition controls like data item selection time definition etc will be disabled To enable those controls again uncheck the check box Counter of Recorded Values If you select a chart type of Counter of recorded values enter a range of values FROM and TO on which to filter the data in the edit boxes Dream Report will go to the history and count how many times the selected data item s values matched the value
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284. erance and the Select Data Item dialog will be opened Select any available real time driver and select a tag which real time value will be taken during report generation for the corresponding tolerance In the right hand part of the dialog window select one of the sources to obtain data from Dream Report History or External History Server Select data source and data items which will be used as a source for the data for setpoint analysis If setpoint configuration has already got some setpoint definition with required data source and tags select such a setpoint from the combo box next to the button Copy from and click on that button This new setpoint definition will copy all defined items from the selected setpoint Then click on the button Select Data Items The Select Data Items dialog window will be opened Select items tags which will be used for this setpoint analysis e If Dream Report History radio button will be enabled then the combo box Select Data Source will contain a list of data access drivers defined in the project e lf External History Server will be selected the Select Data Source combo box will contain a list of history access drivers defined in the project In Select Data Source and Available Data Items select the source and item from which Dream Report will calculate values Click on the button Ado in the List of defined setpoints section and a new setpoint definition will be added to the project Its n
285. erate report with original settings as it is defined in the Designer Studio enable Use original time period check box please see pic below Dynamic Generation Use orginal time period Detine time period Change report generation time Generate report as for 1 30 37 PM Be Iava If you wish to replay previous reports i e to generate a report with the original period definition but using an earlier generation time generate the report as if it was another date or another time please enable the option Use original time period and enable the option Change report generation time Then set the date and time for which you would like to generate reports Example If you have a weekly report and you are generating the report on 27 January and originally your report would display data from 20 27 of January then if you set Change report generation option to 17 January it will display data from 10 17 of January 274 NY The Current Status section will display the status of the report defined for generation Report Status and the status of the defined report in the queue of reports that are being generated Queue Status Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd In the User reports targets section you can select the format for the report generation PDF XLS Excel PDF and XLS Printer Email please see the pic below Repot Targets Generate Email Open Printer Report Targets Email El POF and XLS
286. erating T mI j S429 Aam Tables o Cancel oh Alarm Table AE Alarms High Alarms v Export table tithes Export table headers x Use particular template file Ge IPD E jae eK 7 Export to static Excel file Report format V Excel VWicsv CSV delmiter m All static text background color imported bitmap images graphic images cannot be exported to the Excel file Dream Report enables exporting only non graphic data objects Single data objects Compound objects Expression objects Item tables 78 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd e Alarm tables e Step tables e SQL tables To add an object to an Excel spreadsheet 1 Select the desired report from the report list on the top left part of the wizard 2 Select the desired object from the left bottom part with a mouse left click and place the selected object in the desired cell in the Excel Wizard with a mouse right click To delete an object from an Excel wizard cell select an object in the wizard cell and press the Delete button To move an object within the Excel Wizard to another cell select an object in a cell with a mouse left click and then right click on a new place where the selected object is to be placed The object will be automatically placed there CSV Report Format The Report Format section allows to export report data to xls or xlsx and or CSV format It has 2 check boxes Excel and CSV By default E
287. ered using a as the decimal separator Alarms from that group will be logged only when the defined condition is true When the condition is false any alarms within this group will not be logged The Inhibit group logging check box can disable group logging It can allow the user to define a list of group definitions for future use and inhibit them without deleting the configuration Add alarm group General Record Rate Record Concktions w Enable Record on Condition Date Source Ana Item Mame Energy repot temp gt v Inia group logging ok Cawe 102 N Designer Studio Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Designer Studio Overview Designer Studio is a user interface to create design a report reports for a Dream Report project Reports visually represent the results of the logged data can be generated according to any time period defined and can be automatically distributed in different ways and formats Web PDF Excel Printer Email They can be single page or multiple page You can add or delete pages in your report set parameters and design your report page configure page number date time display You can also add delete or rename a new report by right clicking on the report tree in the Dream Report Designer Studio please see the picture below ie n ee Corenet Papa Wee fbeesti Taan pma Hp E AX fi ae Guroprery a iol dit g Ne lA aos p g a E
288. erent user users control Project Settings Management lf auser has more than 3 unsuccessful attempts to login to the Dream Report studio it will be closed automatically NOTE Please remember that Login with different user option will become enabled only if the Enable User Authorization check box in the General Project section is checked If a user logs in to the Dream Report studio and has no right to access the designer studio and the logger studio he has no rights to edit a project and the studio will be closed automatically If the runtime manager of such a project is launched then each time when its window is loaded from the system tray and opened the login dialog window will be shown If the user login fails the project will continue to run but the Runtime Management Console window will be immediately closed and placed in the system tray so that the current user will have no access to any control operation If a user hasn t entered the login information for the runtime during 1 minute the login window will be closed automatically and the runtime window will be minimized to the system tray 60 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd As soon as user properties are done click on Add button and the new user will be added to the list of local users When you click on a user in the list and click on Delete button then the selected user will be deleted If you select several users in the list then user name password and pass
289. ernal Dream Report database then in order to convert the existing database to a new database structure please go to Windows menu Start All Programs ODS Dream Report DB Converter 14 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd J ops Documentation r Uream epon A Database Convertor m Dream Report Studio License Upgrade Tool A Manual Value Editor in Project Wizard E Runtime Management Console g Uninstall Dream Report X 4 Back Start Database Convertor and select the path where your Dream Report Project is located Select your project which database has to be converted from of older version 3 x to a newer version 4 x C 005 Dream Report Project Demo Demo drpj Status Waiting for operation Then press Convert button in order to begin the conversion process Please note that the time required to convert the complete database for the upgraded project depends on the amount of the data stored in the previous database DSN settings SQL Server connection lf before upgrading to version 4 2 the Dream Report project DSN was defined in order to connect to SQL databases SQL Server 2008 SQL Server 2005 SQL Server 2000 7 0 then the driver in the DSN definition should be changed for the SQL Native Client 10 0 driver Runtime mode settings Please note that when you upgrade your project to Dream Report version 4 2 you can also configure the runtime engine to run as Windows service or
290. escending O List Rows from Stat Advanced opbons v HList Rows from End 3 S Max Number of Rows Advanced SOL Condition The Font Properties controls enable you to set different font properties for the table title table header and the displayed data in the columns OK a Cancel When you define a table you never know how many rows will actually be displayed It may be few but may also result in dozens of pages in a report Therefore the Max Number of Rows edit box allows you to specify the maximum number of rows to display in the table This enables a user to protect the report from an overflow When defining the maximum number of rows you can set which cut of all data set you would like to display the first or last block of data This can be defined by selecting the appropriate radio button List Rows from Start or List Rows from End NOTE Please always keep in mind that an Alarm table will display a number of alarms not more than the defined as maximum therefore make sure to define the Max Number of Rows as high as needed At the same time if your report contains alarm tables with several dozens thousands of lines which will result in several hundreds pages report generation of such report may take very long generation time or fail User will be able to select the way the report alarm data will be displayed in the alarm table There are 3 options that can be selected by checking 190 Dream Repor
291. ess where the database size doesn t exceed 100Mb Access where the database size doesn t exceed 100Mb MS SQL Server is a good and reliable database and is recommended for use MS SQL Server Express 2008 Edition is free and is limited in size to 10Gb So if your database does not exceed 10Gb this database type can be also used MySQL is free and has no limitation This database type is also recommended for use as good and reliable What is the approximate database size allocation When numeric data is logged by Dream Report then the approximate database size allocation is about 16 bytes per record When string or textual values are logged this depends on the size of a logged text 49 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd What is the supported data logging performance Actual Dream Report version supports data logging frequency up to 3000 records per second if data provider capable to provide data at such a high rate Web Configuration This dialog box allows a user to define the remote station list for the web portal Dream Report web portal provides users with a list of predefined remote Dream Report stations and can re direct a user to any listed remote station To open Web Configuration dialog window click on the command button V eb configuration on the Project iS ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar either in the Dream Report Logger Studio or Dream Report Designer Studio menu see pic below E Pyr A Home Conne
292. ext to the Dynamic Tags List the following Select Data Items dialog window to browse and select tags for the list will be opened g 276 N Select data source type Get Data From and then the combo box with data sources will be filled with the list of available drivers of that type Select Data Source As soon as the driver has been selected the left list control Item Name will be filled with the complete list of tags from the selected driver Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd The list can display a folder branch or a tag leaf Path edit box displays the current path from the browse root Item Filter can filter an item list using all available wild characters After selecting tags click OK and they will be filled in the Dynamic Tags List part of the RMC window please see the pic below Avatable Reports Dynamic Generation Report Targets j Batch reports a Use orignal time period j Ga Energy Report pxaroles E ine tina nated beneraie OEE Performance and Mairte l E Production and Manufacturing a Reporting Objects Examples Absolute or relative period definition r m Y Select List of Tags for Replacement Dynamic Tags List Curent Status Absolute Date Time Batch_Data Motor Report Status Date 7 27 2012 v Batch_Data Motor2 en Batch_Data Motor3 Cinai Not Generated 1239 23 PM HMM SS Next Ganin Not Defined End of period a Norins isaning Absokte Date Time atus Queu
293. f the selected statistical function will be Current Value you will be prompted to select a data item from the list of all available data items within the selected source 2 If you will select External History Server then you will be prompted to select a data item from the list of all available items within the selected history source 129 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Apply correction factor for all item values enables adding simple expression to a single data object If the correction factor is set for a data item in a single data object then when retrieving value of that data item for that object first of all each retrieved value from a database will be re calculated applying the correction factor Then the statistical functions will be performed on re calculated values For more details please refer to the Correction factor section ADF to be used enables to select an aggregated data filter ADF to be used combo box will contain all ADF definitions configured in the project The default string will be Not Used i e no filter ADF is applied For details on ADF definition configuration please go to the Aggregated Data Filter section of this manual The Select Statistical Function combo box contains a list of statistical functions available for calculations In the Select Statistical Function dialog box all the statistical functions will be grouped according to their common performance characteristics and will
294. f this manual Text Object Hyperlink Definition If a text object is defined as a hyperlink its caption is not linked to the object s hyperlink configuration So if a user will change the text it will have no influence on a hyperlink definition To edit hyperlink user will have to select that text object and click on the Hyperlink button or select Hyperlink from the right click context menu please see the pic below Fe A TO ae a 2 A Cut Copy Object Seas Copy Object Properties Paste Object Properties Hyperlink T a g w E ai To remove hyperlink from the text object select Delete from the right click Dream Report context menu Dream Report Context right click Menu for the text object has 6 entries Cut Copy Object Copy Object Properties Paste Object Properties Hyperlink Delete 219 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Combo Box Combo Box is a dynamic interactive object which enables users to select values from a predefined list and is available ONLY in WEB reports please also see Manual Data Entry section The Combo box object will be visible only in web reports and will not be displayed in PDF Excel reports To add this object click on the command button Combo Box on the Web Elements ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar in the Dream Report Designer Studio menu see pic below Home Connectivity Project Web Elements 00 Hyperli
295. f this option is selected the combo box in a web report will be filled with a list of batch definition names defined in the project Report may have multiple combo boxes with this function defined 225 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd e Show Batch IDs List display If this option is selected its configuration will have the following design Combo Box Configuration hi Objet nams Default Value Assign Selecton to Tag Oi Production Feobject1 Real Time Item HDA bem Date Source Display Dota trom DBC data Show Batch IDs List E Muh selection tem Name i Batch _ID I0 Date Configuration Send Result Ta Select Batch Definition below Select Batch Definition fram another Combe box Baton 1 ka Timestamp Date Tinie Flow_dats_time_1 Flow data time i This Combo Box is Obligatory J Wisible in PDF Add Def Value lt Not specifed gt The Data Configuration section will have 2 radio buttons Select Batch Definition below and Select Batch Definition from another Combo box Both options define the source for retrieving and building the Batch ID list If Select Batch Definition below option is selected then the combo box will be filled with the list of the actual existing batch definitions defined in the project If Select Batch Definition from another Combo box option is selected then the combo box below that radio button will be filled with the list of all web combo box objects defined in th
296. ff clear its check bow A filled box means that only part of the feature is tumed on di ActiveX Installer Service d Games bh Indexing Service p Internet Information Services E FTP Publishing Service nagemn if di 156 Management Console T 056 Scripting Tools FJ 156 WMI Compatibility T dJi 0S Metabase and I5 6 configuratpon compatibility E Management Scripts and Tools E BS Management Service 4 i World Wide Web Services E Mecrosoft NET Framework 3 0 Babee it bree ug pal heey E Prnt Services J Remote Differential Compression Ji RIP Listener aple ICPP seni echo daytime etc g AE SMMP feature Fi Tablet PC Optional Components VUJ Telnet Client i BREL See J TFP Client NOTE In order to successfully upgrade Web Portal to Dream Report version 4 2 when you click Configure lS button you will have to agree to save the backup of your Web Portal configuration in the IIS configurator window which will pop up user will have to click Yes please see the picture below SS l Do you want to backup the actual content of your project web files 5 Project Database Upgrade If you upgrade your project to the Dream Report version 4 2 you will also have to convert the database as Dream Report version 4 2 has the new internal database structure and the existing database from the previous versions is unavailable for reporting If your Dream Report project is configured so that the data is logged into the int
297. g Replacement option is enabled then the Get Tag List From combo box below will be filled with the list of all web combo box objects which have the Tags List and Report Instances functions If in real time in a web report the selected web combo box object has no selected value the report will be generated in a hardcopy PDF Excel format without any dynamic replacement If during report generation the selected combo box has the value s selected the report will be generated in a hardcopy PDF Excel format with original tags replaced by the web combo box selection either by other tags tag set selected in a web combo box object or by virtual report instance s 230 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd o If Select to generate by Batch option is enabled then user will be able to select one of 2 options Get Batch From or Get Batch Definition From v If Get Batch From option is enabled then the combo box below will be filled with the list of all web combo box objects which have the Batch ID List function please see the picture below Select Action Generate Report g Acton Parameters List of Reports Production_Report List of defined report instances Make Dynamic Tag Replacement Get Tag List From a Select to generate by Batch Get Batch From If in real time in a web report the selected web combo box object has no selected value the report will be generated in a hardcopy PDF Excel forma
298. g selection window will be opened Select Data tem et Select Data Source ODBC _data Display tag browse list options All items Favourite item list Item Fiter Description Filter Path Item Name Descripton S 2 Batch_ID End A to 2 Start or Co It has two radio buttons All tags and Favorite tag list The default selection is All tags When this radio button is selected then the items browse will work as in the standard Select Data Item window 120 D If the Favorite tag list radio button is selected then e first the small button next to the radio button will become enabled When the Favorite tags list option is selected the item Item Name browse will display only the list of pre selected tags for the selected data source please see the pic below Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Select Data item 4 i Select Data Source ODSC_data Display tag browse list options i All items w Favourite item list L Item Filter Description Filter Path Item Name Description Batch_ID Batch_ID Batch _ID ID OK Cancel 121 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd to pre select favorite tags user will click on the button and the standard Dream Report multi tag selection Select Data Items window will be opened please see the pic below T Daia Boe x Select Data Source OCET dats deem Fher Daclin Filter Manual ite
299. ger Studio or Dream Report Designer Studio menu see pic below Prr A Home Connectivity Project Web Elements Tools Runtime SE O88 E C E fy General Data Base Web Set otbackup Localization Tag Project Parameters Le Edit project Version Definition configuration Paths onfiguration Dictionary Definition users control Project Settings User Management The following dialog window will be opened Project Settings x The log file is created and written in a csv format which can be opened by MS Excel as well as by the text editor Eeti Data Base Configuration Using MS Excel can enable a user to use built in MS Excel filtering tools for easier analysis web CNTT Propect Paths The Use Online Log File check box will enable logging of all online Log File data Use On Line Log File Set File Hane eneng report The Limit size of Info File option will limit the size of the info file If this option will be enabled and file size limit is reached additional data will be deleted v Limit Size of Info File If that check box will be unchecked the log file size will be Limi File Size by 10 S MB unlimited Limi Option 2 options are available Cut trom beginning e Cut from end older records will be deleted and newer Cut irom and added e Cut from beginning newer records will be deleted After the log file size exceeds the limit defined in the edit box Limit File Size by all content above the limit will be remove
300. gged out The general Login page Web Portal Welcome page will be opened where user will have to enter login credentials e If Logout action is selected there will be no special action parameters to configure The current user will be logged out and the Web Portal Welcome Page will be opened e lf Reset web report data action is selected Dream Report will read all data entered manually in edit boxes combo boxes tables etc calculate all statistical objects located in the actual displayed report using that data and update change the data of all objects accordingly in the currently displayed web report 379 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd lf File transfer action is selected user will have to select a folder where all client selected files will be transferred to Select Action File Transfer Action Parameters Select Folder to Transfer C Data DEF aa When user will click on the browse button a standard Windows Browse for Folder window will be opened where user can select any Windows folder where files selected on a web client side will be transferred NOTE When user will click on the browse button on a web report the Select file window will be opened where user can select any single file no filter by extension and as soon as the file has been selected it will be transferred to the server A window with a progress bar and the Cancel button w
301. ght below source name Each source can have a list of its own items Alarm definition is recorded in a format lt alarm text gt lt priority gt lt generating period in sec gt When clicking on Configure button the configuration dialog i e the dialog with virtual source selection will be prompted This list will be compiled from a list of sources mentioned in the driver configuration file In the example mentioned above the list of sources will have two sources Alarms_ A and Alarms_ B Click on Add button and add this driver to your project 349 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd NOTE If you need to configure the same driver more than once then after having configured it the first time you ll just need to click in the Select Data Source Type field on any other driver and then go back to the driver that you need to configure Communication Driver Toolkit Dream Report enables users to develop custom drivers for connectivity with any custom equipment for real time data acquisition real time alarm data acquisition and direct history access Custom driver development considers development of 4 dynamic linked libraries DLL Each DLL will contain implementation of one or more corresponding C classes For real time data access driver 2 libraries have to be created e ltem Browser to get list of server nodes and get list of items from the selected node If data access driver has its own configuration dialog it must
302. gs path definition This option is defined separately for each report NOTE If the web option is enabled then all PDF and Excel report files will be copied to an alternative directory defined in this section of the report settings PDF files will also be copied to the main report files folder defined in the Project Settings and will be used for the web portal e Create yearly subfolders will automatically create a subfolder for the current calendar year in the format YYYY e g 2006 The folder will be created in the report directory This option is defined separately for each report e Create monthly subfolders will automatically create a subfolder for the current calendar month e g October The folder will be created in the report directory This option is defined separately for each report NOTE Monthly yearly subfolders will be created in the report directory only as soon as the first report will be generated and stored in the Reports folder It means that if you have enabled any of these two options but have not generated any report so far there will be no subfolder created in the report directory FTP Upload for Generated Reports The Report storage section allows also to configure uploading generated reports in PDF Excel and CSV format to a pre defined FTP server Windows Folder option will be always selected by default lf FTP Server option will be enabled Dream Report will upload all reports files generated
303. guage setting will be used Installed Tools and Utilities Dream Report installation doesn t install but provides you with installation files for some free third party software tools which you may need while using Dream Report Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed to open and view files in PDF format If Adobe Reader is still not installed on your computer and you will generate report files in PDF format please find the installation of English version of Adobe Acrobat Reader 9 0 AdbeRdr80_en_US exe in the Utilities folder in Dream Report installation and install it gt Adobe flash player is needed for better view of Dream Report online help as well as it may be used to visualize some web sites which also use Flash technology e MDAC Microsoft Data Access Component this is a component redistributed by Microsoft which is required for proper database management if you use the default database option in Dream Report then Dream Report can create an MS Access database MDB file and interact with it without MS Access installed using this free database engine MDAC Usually MDAC is installed automatically with the operating system but if for some reason your MDAC installation is corrupted or invalid You can install it yourself from the Utilities folder Additional tools gt SQL Native client 10 gt Hasp Driver installed during the process of Dream Report installation can bere installed upon user needs SSS eS SCS U
304. h Daa Tern P LE che tiiane Process Seecl ut te add 20 rest i Axs Y Axis lt None gt a Display Opbors J Opisy Name Grid Settings F Otuplay Legend Preset J Ctlay Values on Y Axis fre Y Copley Tmestamo on X tos J Cupley Grid on X Axis Y Ctpley Gd on Axe Scale brit Chart window opon paan mode Automatic 2ero based Fit to tise period Chart type Value Baoed Add Line Deveton Advanced options 0 0000 Value Remove Line Desphay Sote W Tite Agal ropes Legend wrar a i Font Color Bock Calor B i U S Advanced SOL Candtien OK Cane The Chart Name edit box enables a user to enter the title for a chart This title will be displayed on top of a line chart window Select unit to add to result section enables a user to select or to type in manually a unit type which will be displayed next to that scale e g kWh or Tones etc This option can be defined separately for each line i e each line of a chart can have its one unit for X and Y scales The Display Options section contains the list of check boxes which display hide chart appearance elements The Chart window option combo box offers a user 2 modes of drawing a chart window during run time e Fit to time period option will force a chart to display full time period which is defined for that line If the chart is defined for a long time period and data for its data item exists only for a smaller period then the full time period will be displayed anyway F
305. h Info Report Wating 1 Report Energy gj OEE Performance and Maintenance f 4 Equipment availability report C Report Maintenance HHE Production and Manufacturing HD Reporting Objects Examples Current User Haj Setpoint Analysis i ij Water amp Waste Water Operating Mode ACTIVE EE a HHE Web Reports Generate Reports Generate opan Oynamic Generation Rapport nto Clear Report Quaus Curent Status Waiting Project Access gt Last Generated OS 2012 11 20 58 Help Open m EEEE Mest Generation 10 1 2012 00 00 00 Queuesd Close Project Selection The section in the left upper corner enables users to select a project to which the RMC will be connected There are 2 options available e Local computer If RMC is connected to the local computer then a user can click on the button Standard Windows Open File dialog window will be opened which will filter files by drpj extension User can select any drpj file and start it or connect to it When starting the RMC it will check if there s any project currently running If yes then it will connect to it and display automatically the currently running project path in the local computer section e lt Browse for more gt the network browse dialog window will be opened There a user can select a PC which he wishes to connect to When the PC name is selected the user has to clic
306. h is a low limit of grid spacing while zooming a workspace in low zoom If low zoom factors are used the grid spacing will change according to a new zoom factor but cannot be lower than a value specified in the Minimum Spacing edit boxes lf the unit selection is mm then 1unit of the grid minimum spacing definition will correspond to 1mm If the unit selection is inch then 1unit of the grid minimum spacing definition will correspond to 1 tick of rulers in fine definition i e 1 32 Example Grid minimum spacing of 5 units in inches will correspond to 5 32 110 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Static Objects The Dream Report graphic editor supports drawing most basic shapes in order to add custom graphics to a report EKSA All drawing of static objects can be done using the Drawing toolbar or using the Designer menu in the Report Designer Studio Line Click the Line button left one on the toolbar Then click the left mouse button on the report page where the line should start Move the mouse to the point where the line should end and release the mouse button To edit line properties click on the line and select a property from the toolbar The following line properties can be edited color width style All these properties are accessible from the same toolbar toolbar on the picture above see the marked area Multi line Click the Multi line button on the toolbar click and release the left mouse button on the rep
307. h mm ss is a number of days hours minutes seconds back from the current time lt end of period gt defines the end date and time Its format is dd hh mm ss Where dd hh mm ss is a number of days hours minutes seconds back from the current time Batch based command line parameters generate exe lt report name gt br lt Batch Name gt lt mode gt lt count gt batch based report generation lt Batch Name gt specifies name of batch definition which will be used to get batch IDs for report generation lt mode gt specifies batch mode It can have 2 possible values Last or Current lt count gt specifies how many batch IDs to include into the range It may have only positive whole values e g 1 2 ox Example generate exe Energy Report br Prod Batch Last 1 will generate report for 1 last batch using Prod Batch batch definition generate exe lt report name gt ba lt Batch Name gt lt StartBatchID gt lt EndBatchID gt absolute batch based generation lt Batch Name gt specifies name of batch definition which will be used to get batch IDs for report generation lt StartBatchID gt specifies start batch ID lt EndBatchID gt specifies end batch ID This option will generate report for the range of batches between lt StartBatchID gt and lt EndBatchID gt DRG will identify the start time of the lt StartBatchID gt and the end time of the lt EndBatchID gt and generate report for that
308. h the correction factor then first all values of the selected item s will be re calculated applying correction factor and then the bar graph will display re calculated data For more details please refer to the Correction Factor section Bar Graph x Defirviion Chart Based On Value 7 Get Data From Dream Report Mstory G Extemal History Server Select Data item Date Source Manual Entry tem Meme Apply correction factor fee al item values use e g 1000 ADF to be used Fiter_t see Process Vale Minimum Define tme period Absolte or relative period defrition Start of report period Absolute Date Time End of report period Absctute Date Time 0101 2007 Days 1 0 2008 uays 00 00 00 E Muses back 00 00 00 hhmm ss back Bar Period Time based x l santa T Legend Colour a T Add Source Name tes Name Legend Coker Eney Energy Et_Temp 2006 Colour Appestance Advanced SOL Condition ADF to be used enables to select an aggregated data filter ADF to be used combo box will contain all ADF definitions configured in the project The default string will be Not Used i e no filter ADF is applied For details on ADF definition configuration please go to the Aggregated Data Filter section of this manual When displaying data item values for a specified period in the Process Value combo box you can select one of the options to display It can be eithe
309. hat selected folder You can specify the spreadsheet from where all the data will be transferred into Dream Report There are 2 options available Use Default Spreadsheet and Select Spreadsheet e Use Default Spreadsheet radio button is enabled by default when the Excel Data Import Configuration dialog window will be opened the first time When the configuration of all the rest of the EDI driver s parameters continues it will always refer to this default Excel spreadsheet e f Select Spreadsheet radio button is enabled then you will be able to select a specific spreadsheet In the Check for new data every section specify the period for a new data check You can enter any integer number from 1 to 86400 and time second s min s hour s day s month s in the time unit combo box The timer will start when the project is started and then each defined number of time units EDI driver will check for the new data In the Values in Excel file data blocks are recorded section you can configure how to import data in blocks First select the type of data layout Vertically top down or Horizontally letf to right The data layout type defines the direction of values which are listed after their corresponding tag name cell In the horizontal orientation values are listed to the right from their tag name In vertical orientation values are listed down from their tag name 304 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd If there is no need
310. he Show Batch Definitions section and then the batch ID list for that given web combo box will be filled with batch IDs taken from the batch definition which has been selected in a corresponding Show Batch Definitions web combo box The Show Batch IDs List combo box in the web report will have no default selection If report is generated from Web and report has the Show Batch IDs List combo box then if it has no selection the report will be generated using the default time period defined in its objects If the Show Batch IDs List combo box has any selection the report will be generated for the selected batch ID Check box Multi selection will define if the combo box will be opened in a multi selection mode drop down list with check boxes If this option will be disabled then the combo box will be opened as a regular single selection drop down list combo box By default this check box is unchecked In the Assign Selection to Tag section user has to select either a real time Real time Item or history data HDA Item value parameter which will get the selected value of the combo box when the report is completed Combo box Send Result to specifies the action on selection of any entry of this combo box This combo box will be filled with the list of other combo boxes defined in this report and user can select any of them As soon as any selection has been done in this combo box in real time the selected child c
311. he Demo mode is to provide user with a possibility to evaluate and try using the product Using Dream Report in the demo mode on real projects is not allowed 2 Temporary license Temporary license is a full functional license with a limited period of service available for periods of 15 90 days This license is available as a software license only file license dat Runtime will work continuously non stop with that type of license until the license period is expired Ocean Data Systems can issue temporary license for specific cases on per case base Number of items web options is specified there according to the customer demand Temporary license can be issued on any period up to 90 days If you have a need for a temporary license please contact your local Dream Report distributor or contact us directly at sales dreamreport net 3 Permanent license is available as a hardware USB Key protection and also as a software protection file license dat upon customer s choice In case of using a software license after purchasing a permanent Dream Report license product activation has to be done in the Dream Report studio according to the procedure described below e Select menu Help gt Register in Dream Report studio e Fill correct end user information in the opened dialog window It will create the activation file activation dat in the Dream Report license folder e g C Program Files ODS Dream Report License 16 Dream Report Oc
312. he Display Grid on Y Axis edit box a user can define if the grid will be shown on the Y Axis of the bar graph object Then a user can define any of three available grid setting options for the bar graph e Fine If this option will be selected the grid will subdivide the bar graph object into small cells via fine grid parameters Values offered by default have been preset in such manner that for most usual cases none of them needs to be adjusted e Normal If this option will be selected the grid will subdivide the bar graph object into small cells via normal grid parameters Values offered by default have been preset in such manner that for most usual cases none of them needs to be adjusted e Manual If this option will be selected the grid will subdivide the bar graph object into small cells which will have the X Y Axis value parameters entered manually by the user 000 7 000 4 6 000 4 000 4 0004 3 000 2 000 1 000 0 000 4 21 2011 4 21 2011 10 45 02 14 45 02 1 2011 PaL Hal ARRI 4222011 422 201 1 18 43 02 224504 02 43 02 06 45 02 10 45 02 Scale limit mode User can define any of 3 available scale limit modes e Automatic If this mode will be selected the bar graph object will automatically detect minimum and maximum of all values which have to be displayed in the bar line and then set scale limits automatically according to that e Automatic zero based If this mode will be selected the bar graph objec
313. hen select which type of statistical reporting objects search and Replace will be affected by that time replacements There are 2 options Search and Replace e Search in all objects the time period Data source and item replacement will be done in all statistical objects Orne efnin Y of that report Search only in selected object type the combo box with the list of all available object types will appear just below that radio button User can select the desired object type and then time period replacement will affect only the object type selected Search in all objects Search only in selected object type Alarm Table k 117 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd After that specify the time period to search for Search time period and the time period to replace by Replace by time period see the pic below Search and Replace x Search and Replace Data source and item Time definition Search in all objects Search only in selected object type Single LD ata Search time period Al time periods Specific time periods Define time period Absolute o relative period definition Start of repart period End of report penod Absolute Date Time Absolute Date Time 2718 2011 w Das 5 19 2011 w Days 10 51 10 hkmwss back nanan al hh mm ss back Replace by time period Deme time period Fixed Pernod 7 Last 2 monthisi i Stat Date and Time v Duration Day Time 1 mo
314. her before installing Dream Report Online Help The online help contains detailed description about most of Dream Report functionality and is available in 3 different ways It can be loaded gt Pressing F1 in Dream Report studio gt From menu Help in Dream Report Designer Studio gt From start menu in Windows Start gt Programs gt ODS gt Documentation gt Dream Report Online Help Contact us to buy sales dreamreport net Contact our technical support support dreamreport net Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Dream Report Installation Tips Installation of Dream Report Prerequisites Before installation a user has to ensure that the following list of components is installed on the target computer 1 2A 3 Microsoft NET framework 3 5 or 3 5 SP1 If user plans to run the Dream Report embedded web portal then IIS Internet Information Services feature has to be installed on the computer lt is recommended to close all running programs due to the fact that at the end of installation user will be asked to restart the computer Installation process In order to start Dream Report installation please use the CD supplied by Ocean Data Systems with the product installer or download the product from the Dream Report corporate web portal 1 2 3 Run Dream Report setup executable Accept the license agreement Select all required components from the Features Tree including the required communication
315. hh mm ss back how 5 7 Time based Batch based Sep une E Value range based l Step number is value based Step number amp based on al item values Apoearancne ok Cancel Example If you define a time period of 1 day and a step period of 1 hour you will have a table for the last 24 hours with 24 rows where each row will correspond to 1 hour and will contain statistical calculation of data for that corresponding 1 hour Batch based option configuration is described in details in the Batch Definition section NOTE When batch is defined in the external database see Batch definition section then if in the Step table the time period is defined as Absolute Relative Fixed or Calculated and the Step period is defined as batch based the first step of the table will be the beginning of the first batch which started within the time period defined for the step table The last step of the table will end with the end of the time period defined 177 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd lf Step number is value range based option is selected then user will be able to select a tag from a real time or historical data source and specify full or half empty value range Step Period Step number is value Y External History Server i Data Source ODBC tem Name _ Batch_Data Motor 1 From To 0 10000 e Full value range means that From and To value range parameters will have the entered values
316. iFix HDA HDD iHistorian GE Fanuc Intellution History Access HDA The proprietary history access driver for iHistorian database of Intellution This driver provides automated item browse as well as enables history data extraction history alarm extraction from local or remote iHistorian server No configuration is needed except for IP address of remote history server if server is located on the remote machine PcVue Arc Informatique Full Integration PcVue driver provides complete integration of Dream Report and PcVue SCADA system The driver provides access to real time data real time alarms for logging into the Dream Report database as well as an access to the proprietary history of PcVue The driver is web enabled i e is using web services for communication and can provide data acquisition over the Internet TVIEW History Access Driver History Access The proprietary history access driver for TVIEW SCADA system of TechnoTrade Wizcon Wizcon Systems Full Integration Wizcon driver provides complete integration of Dream Report and Wizcon SCADA system The driver provides access to real time data real time alarms for logging into the Dream Report database as well as access to the proprietary history of Wizcon SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol Real Time Data Access SNMP driver for Dream Report provides you with an automatic browsing of network devices exchanging SNMP data and trap messages Dream Report Ocean D
317. ia fine grid parameters Values offered by default have been preset in such manner that for most usual cases none of them needs to be adjusted Normal If this option is selected the grid will subdivide the chart object into small cells via normal grid parameters Values offered by default have been preset in such manner that for most usual cases none of them needs to be adjusted Manual If this option is selected the grid will subdivide the chart object into small cells which will have the X Y Axis value parameters entered manually by the user Aligned to value If this option is selected the grid will subdivide the chart object into small cells which will have the X Y Axis value parameters entered manually by the user and adjusted according to the values set Scale limit mode User can define any of 4 available scale limit modes 206 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Automatic If this mode is selected chart object will automatically detect minimum and maximum of all values which have to be displayed in the chart line and then set scale limits automatically according to that Automatic zero based If this mode is selected chart object will automatically detect maximum of all values which have to be displayed in the chart line and then set maximum scale limits automatically according to that Minimum scale limit will be always zero Auto centered If this mode is selected chart object will automatically detect minimum and m
318. ich has entered and left the stability period Then the function will do its main calculation only for this item from that setpoint If a user will select one of the functions from the Setpoint Analysis Functions group please see the list above then it will perform one of the statistical functions described below Start time of stable period calculates the start time of stability period of the selected setpoint It takes the selected setpoint and gets values of all items tags defined for that setpoint for the calculation period defined in that object This function detects the time when values of all tags have entered the stability zone e g are within setpoint value tolerance If more than one setpoint is selected the function calculates start time for every defined setpoint and then displays the first one between all of them If during the object calculation period all tag values have never entered together into the stability zone the object result will be N A End time of stable period calculates the end time of stability period of the selected setpoint End time of stability zone means the timestamp when last item tag value has left the stability zone If it calculates the result for multiple selected setpoints then it will calculate the result end time for each setpoint and then display the last one Duration of stable period calculates start and end time for one or several setpoints and then displays the period duration betw
319. ied gt a ene By default the Select DSN combo box will be empty If any DSNs have already been configured in the Project DSN Manager then user will be able to select one of the DSNs from that list If no DSNs have been configured yet or if user needs to configure a specific DSN he will have to click on the browse button in the Select DSN combo box and the Project DSNs Configuration dialog window will be opened For details on how to configure DSN please go to the DSN Manager section of this manual 222 NY Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Tag values display In the Data Configuration section user has to select the tag and then when initializing the report Dream Report will read all available values of a selected tag for the defined time period from the database and display those values in the combo box Object mame Default talue Assign Selection to Tag Production 1 fSobject 1 7 Feal Time Tham HOA Itam Cists Sauce Display Data trom ODAC data Tag Values Mult selection heen Nama L Baid _ID Baidh _ID Data Configuration Send Result To Dream Report Hetory Extemal Hetory Server Data Soure orac data tem Name Batch_ID Babch_ID Define time period Absolute or relative period definition x Start of report period End af repa t period Absolute Date Time 7 Absolute Date Time z 5 22012 Dave 6 72012 Dave PEPEN hh SBSCK annman Mmm beck 1400 00 S anne 14 00 00 Timestamp Date Tim All
320. ientaeumeneeiauesedcaseseas 57 Select setpoint scere a a 202 Select Statistical FUNCTION cccccccccceceeeeeeeneneeseeneees 129 Select unit to add tO r SUlt ccccsssssesseeeeessseessseeeenes 202 S ERE AE PPAT A AET eer a 310 Set Background COIlOUL 11 ssccccsssseesseceesssanessseeesees 115 Set Background PICHUIC cccccccccccsssscesnnssseeesennees 115 Set this time period for all ODjCCTS ccccsssseseeeeeeees 236 Set TiMe sar svinits saearttinaaciessnesseaceanteespadieninelapniaanieadedensobainsinniann 73 ho 10 6 A E I ae oe enon ee wR A eee 202 Setpoint ANGI VSI ens sa5ceonsadavtentveduwanascarciotxedtnueuniaitens 244 Shell command iaccteitsscvawictswicveseteaistov ie icvt eatin tiivsueduwicenteadien 87 Show absolute time ON X AXIS w ccssssssssscccsssseessseeeeees 202 Show relative time ON Y AXIS wiscccssssseesssccesssseessseeeenes 202 SHOW Result AVS cicnssvcrsneesvnesiivsvintisednoanntcenventstednwanniiens 151 Simulation Data Drive oo cccecccccneeeeeeeceeeseeensnnsseenenes 348 Simulation CYIVESS ccccceecececeensecenenneseeseeneesesseeesseesenes 348 Ne CUN Sek ee nee or ene eee eee nee ee eee 197 Single Data OO OCT ws cadecsosnaattecexaauwondaestiecnteieeweuseadians 129 Slowest entry Hem xosedesecasexecetenecesterietitieeceeeesexen 202 Slowest exit teM sic ssancnccisdennassnneaneditaunaetavaennerardandeen 202 21 a AAA A E E A V EE SAAE E E 81 SMTP SOVET arinaa r EAA EAEE 81 SOL conditio arracica ennaii E a 1
321. ill be displayed until the operation is completed The maximum size of an uploaded file is 51200kB 380 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd DSN ODBC Configuration in 64 Bit Operating Systems Dream Report includes ODBC driver which enables connectivity to any external databases which support ODBC connectivity and have supported data structure ODBC driver of Dream Report provides automatic tag browsing tag and alarm data extraction DSN ODBC when using a 64bit OS If Dream Report is installed on 64 bits Operating System i e Windows 7 or Windows 2008 Server DSN ODBC may not work with 64bit ODBC In this case please use ODBCad32 which is located in C Windows SysWOW64 directory to create a 32bit DSN to work with Dream Report NOTE In Dream Report version 3 43 the ODBC History Access driver had one instance both for historical data and historical alarms configuration Now in this new version of Dream Report the ODBC driver has two instances and should be configured separately as ODBC historical values for historical data or and ODBC historical alarms for historical alarms D Index Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd 382 NY A Absolute batch ID eas lee Secetret Seaetade taasnidarceasbuasaeteedsuee 164 Absolute date Relative time ccccssssecesssssesessanseseess 164 Absolute date time 1ccccceecccsececcsnseecsseetsnesecseeeessnans 164 Absolute Relative POriod ccscccssssseccssesesessaneese
322. ill pop up saying Please select EDE file for Numerical Object or uncheck Get Object s Browse from EDE file option Supported Object Types For the BACnet real time values driver as soon as the browse of objects has been done only the list of supported object type will be presented as follows 1 Al type ID is O 2 AO type ID is 1 3 AV type ID is 2 4 Bl type ID is 3 5 BO type ID is 4 6 BV type ID is 5 7 MI type ID is 13 8 MO type ID is 14 9 MV type ID is 19 10 Device type ID is 8 The rest of the object types will be hidden NOTE For the BACnet historical values from trend log objects driver HDA only Trend Log objects will be presented Object type ID is 20 NY Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd CSV Text Driver Tag Values Dream Report includes CSV Text drivers for data and alarms CSV Text Data Access Tag Values driver enables transferring data from Data CSV ASCI files generated by industrial equipment like PLCs RTUs etc to Dream Report database CSV driver provides automated browse of data items and automated periodical data extraction from any type of CSV Text files This driver periodically checks for data updates in specified data file s and transfers these data to Dream Report database These data can then be available for fast and efficient report generation and creation To add this driver to the project please select Tag values in CSV files driver
323. ime period applies to the entire chart for all bars Bar Graph Appearance The Appearance section of the Bar Graph definition window contains formatting options for the bar graph object The Bar Graph Name edit box can contain an object title The Display Options define which bar graph object properties will be displayed in the report e Display Name displays a title for the chart make it visible or invisible e Display Legend displays a chart legend It can be displayed on the right side or on the bottom of the chart e Display Values on Y Axis displays values labels on the Y axis Axis lines and values will have the same color as the bar color e Display Timestamp on X axis displays the timestamp on the X axis of the chart The timestamp may have a different format defined in the Timestamp Format combo box below the check boxes e Display Value displays numeric value for each bar The value is placed inside each bar Display Values on Y Axis v Display Timestamp on Anis Display Value Ll Single colounn C Pareto graph Timestamp Format Date and Time T Ba lype Rectangle 30 Display Slyle Tithe OLegend Bar Graph Definitien Appearance Bar Graph Name Consumption Display Options Display Mame Gnd Settings Clo F Display Grid onv Axis isplay Legend Preset Fine Y As nm EE Scale imit mode Aubomatic i Arial European z IZ U Font Color Back Coly E C Advanced S
324. in columns The Max Number of Rows edit box allows you to specify the maximum number of rows to display in the table This enables a user to protect the report from an overflow When defining the maximum number of rows you can set which cut of all data set you would like to display the first or the last block of data This can be defined by selecting an appropriate radio button List rows from Start or List rows from End 181 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Example of Step Tables Weekly Oil Production 26 06 2007 28106 2007 Sen Table enables pi paka This footer can have multiple lines to insert Weekly Production 244 Barrels 5133 Barrels Barrels Text Expression or Compound data Total Production 183825 Barrels Batch Production Enhanced Display Options If any specific step cell in the step table has no value the desired behavior of a step table in this case can be configured by using the Step No value settings option It has 3 radio buttons Show N A Show Previous value and Show Next Value e Show N A option is selected by default In this case if any specific cell in the step table has no value the step table will display N A value e f Show Previous value option is selected then the last valid step value will be displayed instead of N A value Please see an example below 182 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd 2 Thursday 2 a 25 2 3 2 5 saturday 3 4 35
325. in subfolders Use Key Name as Object Name Set column delemiter 7 Build tree browse from key name Delimiter Pull data every if COY on property is not supported BU SEC Find EDE files in subfolders option enables to browse for EDE files in the subfolders of the directory selected in the Numerical Objects browse If you need to use Key Name instead of the Object Name check Use Key Name as Object Name option in order to get the object browse based on the Key Name parameter NOTE This option will be available only if the Item by BACnet Object Name option is chosen and EDE file is selected 290 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd In the Set column delimiter combo box select one of the 3 preset parameters or Tab By default the column delimiter will be set to Build tree browse from key name enables to present object browse based on the KeyName parameter in the form of the tree rather than the flat list The Delimiter is set as Dream Report BACnet driver is subscribed for changes on COV on property change of value on property If the BACnet device which is being used doesn t support this way of subscription the Pull data every if COV on property is not supported option check box can be used This option will be set with default value of 60 seconds If the EDE file is not defined then when pressing Ok the warning message w
326. in that source If report validation is passed the data will be recorded into the database please see the pic below Select Action Submit Correction Action Parameters Submit Source If Submit action is selected there will be no special action parameters to configure Report fields will be checked for correct data and if report validation is passed the data will be recorded into the database lf Refresh report action is selected Dream Report will read all data entered manually in edit boxes combo boxes tables etc calculate all statistical objects located in the actual displayed report using that data and refresh data of all objects in the currently displayed web report please see the pic below Select Action Refresh Report Z Acton Parameters Fd Make Dynamic Tag Replacement Get Tag List From Production B E Select to generate by Batch Dialog has 2 additional options for refreshing a report Make Dynamic Tag Replacement and or Select to generate by Batch By default both check boxes will be disabled o If Make Dynamic Tag Replacement option is enabled then the Get Tag List From combo box below will be filled with the list of all web combo box objects which have the Tags List and Report Instances functions If in real time in a web report the selected web combo box object has no selected value the report will be generated without any dynamic replacement If
327. in the ODBC Database Source combo box see DSN Manager 01 01 2005 19 25 04 02 01 2005 07 50 12 02 01 2005 12 15 16 02 01 2005 16 30 28 02 01 2005 21 00 00 03 01 2005 02 20 21 03 01 2005 10 50 18 03 01 2005 12 32 05 03 01 2005 14 50 09 04 01 2005 08 00 00 04 01 2005 11 50 12 04 01 2005 13 53 18 04 01 2005 23 50 18 05 01 2005 08 05 00 OF Ana PO AN AMA i gt gt i MNM N ee ee ee ee ee ee ee 2 Lon m eH sur 1530 1 lt D OO KS RS SHS OK OOK cmc ll eS cl I ODO OO c CO KS SS SS OK S OO 2130 MOH NW HH 4 Ow J eS O RS O O RS c O cmc lc OOO ag l 1 3J 2 Enter the right SQL query SELECT TIMESTAMP BATCH_NUM Motor1 TankLevel1 FROM Batch WHERE BATCH_NUM 4 AND Motor1 1 3 Then you will get the following result in your report TIMESTAMP BATCH_NUM MOTOR TANKLEVEL1 2005 01 18 08 00 00 400 10 120104 ME OOOO 20ST E e fC 628 39 688 57 186 D SQL Table Appearance SQL Query Parser When you enter the SQL query by default it will be automatically parsed When you open the Appearance section you will see the list of columns to be selected where you can edit column captions in an easy way as displayed on the picture below Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Free SOL Query table Appearance Table Name Satch Table V Otsplay Table Name Display Columns Field Caption Width Sortby 4 Batch_ID Batch N 39 i
328. inear indicator object display Define the following parameters Show Units to enable disable display of a measurement unit on a gauge or a linear indicator object shown Units can be selected from a standard unit selection combo box or typed in as it s normally configured in other Dream Report objects If this option is enabled then the unit selection combo box will be enabled as well If this option is disabled then the unit selection combo box will be disabled By default this option is disabled Show Title to enable disable display of the object title If this option is enabled then the widget title will be displayed on top of the object Object title can be specified in the edit box right below the Show Title check box If that check box is checked then the object title edit box will be enabled If that check box is unchecked then the object title edit box will be disabled Show Result to enable disable digital display as a digit of the calculated displayed value in the center of the object For example if the displayed value is 60 then gauge or linear indicator will display 60 units but also in the middle of the object the number 60 will be displayed as well By default this option is enabled The Precision combo box will be always enabled and a user can select the required decimal precision This decimal precision from this combo box will be used both for scale tick marks decimal precision and also for displayed res
329. ined rate whether or not the value has changed The rate is defined in seconds 26 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd e On item Value Change option will record item values each time the value of a control item changes It works as follows a You can define an item from the same data source that this group will log data from as displayed on the picture below Please selecthow do you wantto archive values of your selected tags On Item value Change Data Source Simulation 1 Tolerance ltem Hame Ana_10 b Every time this value changes Dream Report will log values of all selected tags NOTE Please note that only items from real time data sources can be used If you select a data item from the external history server this option won t work e On Absolute Time option will record item values at an exact time specified in the list see example below Please selecthow do you wantto archive values of your selected tags On Absolute time ka Set Time 12 00 00 12 00 00 r Modify Delete You can add as many time definitions as you need and when the PC clock reaches the time in the list values for all of the selected tags will be logged to the database Click Next to go to the next step of project creation Click Back to go one step back to re configure or check project configuration Click Close to exit Project Wizard without any operation performed 27 Dream Report Ocean Data System
330. ing You are about to change tag dictionary or replace one or several tags used in that report Do you want to continue Yes No f a user clicks on No all changes will be discarded If Yes then the tag dictionary of that report will be modified accordingly For details on how to define configure Tag Dictionary please see Tag Dictionary of this manual To create a new instance in the Instance definition combo box user has to 1 Enter Instance name which has to be unique for that report 2 Enter Instance description into the corresponding edit box optional not required 3 Select required data sources and items tags for each dictionary entry 4 Click on Add button To delete the instance user has to 1 Select any defined instance in the list 2 Click on the button Delete Then a message box will appear asking Do you want to delete the virtual instance Yes No f user clicks on Yes the instance will be deleted To modify existing instance user has to 1 Select any defined instance in the list 2 Make required modification If you change selection to another instance or click Ok changes will be automatically applied to the selected report The List of Reports combo box in the upper left corner of the window contains the list of all reports available in the current project The current selection will always show the report that this window has been opened for 251 D
331. inition of an existing driver please be aware that the name of the existing driver can NOT be changed 93 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Item Group Item Group Definition The Dream Report Logger Studio enables users to split different data items by groups and define separate logging conditions for each group of data items Click on the command button Add Item Group on the Connectivity ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar in the Dream Report Logger Studio menu see pic below rr r Home Connectivity oe pi of Ee De Driver Batch Dbatch Configuration definition Configuration Connectivity configuratie m Project Web Elemen E A Add item Add alarm group Add Item Group dialog window will be opened see pic below If no item group has already been created you can open the Dream Report Logger Studio and right click on Add item group in the left top part of the Logger Studio If any item group has already been created and you want to create a new item group you can open the Dream Report Logger Studio right click in the left top part of it Add item group Duplicate Group Modify Group Delete Group Add Items To Group The Duplicate Group option will clone the selected item group with all settings driver and list of items taken from the original group If a user wants to edit the definition of an existing group select the Modify Group menu option The Delete G
332. installed on the specified PC and update the list of servers in the combo box When the OPC server is selected click the button Test Connection to test communication between Dream Report OPC client and your OPC server NOTES e During installation of Dream Report additional OPC component will be installed OPC Core Component Redistributable 2 20 from OPC Foundation It s supposed to repair all possible problems in the OPC servers registrations and repair the Windows OPC component installation e f you need to configure the same driver more than once then after having configured it the first time you ll just need to click in the Select Data Source Type field on any other driver and then go back to the driver that you need to configure NY Wonderware Historian Driver Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd WW Historian driver enables users to directly access Wonderware Historian and extract data using native tools specialties of WW Historian The driver doesn t require creating a DSN Select WW Historian driver from the list of Wonderware history access drivers in the Wonderware folder of the Select Data Source Type section please see the picture below sag Daa Dimza Ippe Conigues Dwe lor Selected Source Defined Cieee List zH Interval a Driver Logical Hame Wondama ies ms B Anche ation Geran local of emote Driver Logical Name BB snaps E ooit Aans Wi_Hestorian Put ETETEN values LGH fies
333. into a Value field in the list and enter a value for the items needed 4 As soon as all new manual values are set click on the button Update database and all manually entered values will be written into the Dream Report database Using manual parameters in reports To use manual values in a report user will only have to open any statistical object select Dream Report database option select required se __Updste databane real time driver or manual driver select required parameter and select statistical function It will work as with the usual data from the Dream Report database NOTE If the manual driver is defined then on the top of the Web Portal Welcome Page a new button Manual value entry will be displayed When a user clicks on that button a new page will be opened where a user has input manual values It will have exactly the same design as a regular MVE window 254 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd DSN Manager DSN Manager enables users to manage configuration of all DSNs used in the project from one place DSN Manager includes a user interface DSN Manager window where user can configure DSNs and a combo box control which enables to select pre defined DSNs in SQL tables Combo Box objects SQL Query data display Single Data Objects SQL Query statistical function You can create DSN definition in the DSN Manager window To open it click on the command button DSN Manager on
334. iod Absolute or relative period definition Start of report period End of report period Absolute Date Time T Absolute Date Time ii 5 1 2012 Days 7 23 2012 Days 12 00 00 E Hh mmasback 1200 00 hhmmasback Start mode section contains configuration controls which will be applied to the runtime service RM The option Run as application or Run as service is applicable to the PC which RM is currently connected to This setting is saved on a PC where the RM is now connected to The runtime control service there will run either as an application or as a service e If Run as service option is selected then the runtime control service will write itself into Windows startup and will be launched on a PC start e f Run as application option is selected then the runtime control service will be launched on a user Windows login Default selection for the Start mode section is Run as application NOTE Runtime configuration control options Run as service or Run as application can influence the performance of Custom Archive Import Tool CAIT and UHH Import Tool If either CAIT or UHH Import Tool is launched via Runtime Manager and import is performed to from SQL Server please make sure that Runtime Manager is running under user who has an authorized access to SQL Server 269 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Startup options section enables to set automatic startup runtime service and select the project
335. ion settings dialog window will be opened Go to the a Advanced PDF security to find more details about this functionality When the PDF option is checked the Email check box will be enabled and can be checked as well This option enables the user to send each generated report file PDF to a list of predefined users When the Email option is checked click on the Seitings button to configure the list of email recipients Configuration of email manager is described in the Email Configuration section If a generated report is to be printed select the Printer option To select one or more printers click the browse button Printer configuration is described in the Printer Selection section If you need to export data to Excel enable the Excel option and click on the Settings button It will open the MS_Excel report layout wizard In this wizard select the report layout i e what data will be exported to Excel Page Format will set up page size and orientation of the report The combo box Page Size contains most of the popular standards of page sizes e g A4 US Letter A5 B5 and others e if the Portrait option will be selected the page will be positioned horizontally e if the Landscape option will be selected the page will be positioned vertically The Open report file after generation option allows users to always open reports automatically after generation This means that each time a report is generated it will
336. ion Time In the Object Name section a user will define the Object Name name for the selected object Temperature The Option for Dynamic Generation section defines the behavior of the date time object if a report is generated by the Dynamic Report Generator with Svstom Time Format OS Time Format dynamic period replacement When the period is replaced dynamically the Date Time object can P TMe Appesance Set Date Time Format display either the start or end time of the report period Date and Time X ddiMMjyyyy or timestamp of report generation according to the raae selected radio button Then the Time Definition 24 Hour aM PM section of this dialogue will be ignored and only dynamic report generation settings will be considered Time Definition Absolute or relative period definition X If there is no dynamic time replacement this object Start of report period End of report period will present time defined in the Time Definition Absokte Date Time Absolute Date Time i section of this dialogue eniron w Das gfizizo11 w Das 11 00 00 4 hh mm ss back 11 00 00 2 hhmmiss back The Time Definition combo box has 4 options Absolute or relative period definition Fixed period Batch based and Calculated time period OK Cancel The time period configuration is described in details in the Time Period Definition section of this manual If a user enables OS Time Format then the computer operat
337. ion in this project O No 1 wil have only time based reports e f No will have only time based reports option is selected click Next and go to the Project Wizard Reports section e f Yes need batch information in this project option is selected click Next and go to the next step where you can start creating batch definitions for the project reports The following window will be opened Proyect Name Connectivity Data Archiving Bateh Defmilian Reports The Batch definition button will open the Batch definition dialog window 29 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd To add a new batch definition click on the New button and a new batch definition will be added to the list am saci x Verined batches c In the Name edit box you can edit the name of the batch field it will iR Temperature update the name in the batch list automatically Descrpbon The Description edit box can contain a brief explanation of the batch field Each batch process is marked by a unique ID and this ID will be Hew Delete used later to recognize and distinguish batches process loops So in order to track batches define the source for batch IDs Defined by data tem Data Item For Batch ID Data Source Dream Report batch definitions allow tracking batch IDs by a tag eee neat tery oet from by logging batch information into internal Dream Report history Setema Hstory Server os item or retrieving th
338. ional system time settings will be automatically applied to the Date Time object settings lf a user selects Custom Time Format then Date Time Appearance and Set Date Time Format combo boxes will appear please see the pic above The Date Time Appearance section defines which data will be displayed Date displays only the specified date Time displays only the specified time Date and Time displays both the date and time Week Number displays only the week number where Monday is treated as the beginning of the week and the week containing January 1 is Week 1 Day of the week displays the name of the day of the week e g Monday e Day of the week number displays the number of the day of the week where 1 Monday and 7 Sunday 162 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Month displays the name of the month e g January Month Number displays a two digit number for the month where January is 01 Year only displays the four digit year Hour only displays the two digit hour applying the 24 hour or AM PM selection but without the PM designation e g 15 00 will be displayed as 03 Minute only displays the two digit minutes The Set Date Time Format section defines the format in which the date and time will be displayed e g dd mm yyyy or mm dd yyyy or dd mm yy etc for the date format and 24h format or am pm for the time format 163 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Time Period Defini
339. ionary 241 Setpoint Stability Analysis 244 Custom Archives Import Tool 247 Virtual Report Instances 250 Manual Values Editor MVE 253 DSN Manager 255 Database Archiving Zor Aggregated Data Filter 260 8 Runtime Manager 262 Runtime Management Console 262 Runtime Configuration 269 Dynamic Report Generator 271 9 Communication Drivers 278 List of Communication Drivers 278 Driver Configuration Data Source Definition 281 ODBC Driver 284 BACnet Communication Drivers 289 CSV Text Driver Tag Values 292 CSV Text Driver Alarms 298 Excel Data Import Driver 303 OPC Drivers 307 OPC DeltaV Drivers 310 Modbus Communication Driver 312 Analytical Driver 316 Web Manual Driver 317 Wonderware Historical Alarms Driver 319 Wonderware OPC Driver 322 Wonderware Historian Driver 325 InTouch Native driver SuiteLink Driver 327 InTouch Historian Driver LGH files 331 Eurotherm Review UHH Communication Driver 333 Eurotherm UHH DB Communication Drivers 336 PcVue Communication Drivers 340 Wizcon Communication Driver 347 Simulation Drivers 348 Communication Driver Toolkit 390 10 Web Portal 351 Dream Report Web Portal 351 Web Manual Driver 358 Manual Data Entry 360 IIS Configuration on Windows Vista 361 D gt Manual IIS Configuration Web Elements Timestamp Picker Hyperlink Combo Box Action Button DSN ODBC Configuration in 64 Bit Operating Systems 11 Index Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd
340. ired color for the corresponding bar enter a label for the legend if needed and click the Add button Please note that when the Manual Entry check box is checked all data definition controls like data item selection time definition etc will be disabled To enable those controls again uncheck the check box Counter of Recorded Values If you select a chart type of Counter of Recorded Values then in the edit boxes enter the range of values which will be used for data filtering Dream Report will go to the history and count how many times the selected data item s values matched the value filter and display the result in the chart Alarm Count If you will select a chart type of Alarm Count the Define Alarm Filter button will appear 198 N Chart Based Un Alarm Court Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Define Alarm Filter Click on the Define Alarm Filter button and the Alarm Filter Manager dialog window will be opened You can select one alarm filter pick a desired color enter the label for the legend if desired and press the Add button If this bar function is selected Dream Report will go to the alarm history and count how many alarms matched the selected alarm filter and will display the result in the chart NOTE e Bar configuration cannot include different bar functions one bar graph can only include bars with the same function e Bar configuration doesn t include bars with different time periods one t
341. is argument will indicate that the absolute time period is used relPeriod This argument will indicate that the relative time period is used batchRelPeriod This argument will indicate that the batch based relative time period is used batchAbsPeriod This argument will indicate that the batch based absolute time period is used timeStart Time that defines start of period timeEnd Time that defines end of period batchDef Name of the batch definition to be uses batchRel Mode for the relative batch ID it can be last or current batchCount Number of batches to count batchldStart ID of the batch for the report start batchIdEnd ID of the batch for the report end currentTime This argument will set the current time for the report Target for the report can be pdf email printer excel see examples below fileParam File to be used as a file with the parameters for preprocessor NOTE If fixPeriod is used then timeStart has to provide one of the following arguments last day last n days last hour last n hours last week last n weeks last month and last n months Current day Current hour Current week Current month Current quarter where n is a number from 1 to 500 Examples e rtm exe generate name Report_1 instance Instance_1 fixPeriod last 10 hours e rtm exe generate name Report_1 instance Instance_1 ab
342. is report User will be able to select a web combo box object which will have the Batch Definition function described above in the Show Batch Definitions section and then the batch ID list for that given web combo box will be filled with batch IDs taken from the batch definition which has been selected in a corresponding Show Batch Definitions web combo box The Show Batch IDs List combo box in the web report will have no default selection If report is generated from Web and report has the Show Batch IDs List combo box then if it has no selection the report will be generated using the default time period defined in its objects If the Show Batch IDs List combo box has any selection the report will be generated for the selected batch ID Check box Multi selection will define if the combo box will be opened in a multi selection mode drop down list with check boxes If this option will be disabled then the combo box will be opened as a regular single selection drop down list combo box By default this check box is unchecked In the Assign Selection to Tag section user has to select either a real time Real time Item or history data HDA Item value parameter which will get the selected value of the combo box when the report is completed 226 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Combo box Send Result to specifies the action on selection of any entry of this combo box This combo box will be filled with
343. is statistical function has been selected will be expanded All other groups will be collapsed The Statistical Functions tree will have the following groups General Functions 130 N Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd First value selects the first found value for the selected item from a database within the specified time period Timestamp of first value displays the timestamp of the first value found during the specified time period The timestamp has a configurable format of three options Date time or Date only or Time only Last value selects the last found value for the selected item from a database which is within the specified time period Timestamp of last value displays the timestamp of the last found value during the specified time period The timestamp has a configurable format of three options Date time or Date only or Time only Current value selects current value for the selected item from a database Maximum retrieves the maximum value of the selected item within the specified time period Timestamp of maximum value displays the timestamp of the maximum value during the specified time period The timestamp has a configurable format of three options Date time or Date only or Time only Minimum retrieves the minimum value of the selected item within the specified time period Timestamp of minimum value displays the timestamp of the minimum value during the specified time period The timestamp has a configur
344. isplays in a selected format a list of alarms according to the specified time period and the selected alarm filter Click on the Alarm Table button on the Report Designer Studio Elements toolbar Then draw a rectangle where you want to place the table in the report workspace The Alarm Table Data Definition dialog window will be opened Alarm T able Data Definition Get Data From Dream Report History External History Server Selected List Pricnity Filter temperature time Edit List Dejme time pernod Absolute or relative penod definition k Start of report period End of report period Absolute Date Time Absolute Date Time angam Dave BIS 2011 w Daye 17 05 28 hhemecss back 21 05 41 al hhomences back ai Advanced SOL Condition Ca Alarm Table Data Definition In the Get Data From section you can select which history type you will use to extract alarms from Dream Report History or External History Server The alarm table will display a list of alarms which have occurred during the defined period after applying one or more selected alarm filters 189 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd To define an alarm filter please click on the Edit List button The Alarm Filter Manager window will be opened For details on how to configure alarm filters please see the Alarm Filter Manager section When you select one or more alarm filters for the table please define the time
345. ist To modify an existing filter select the filter in the list The filter definition will be updated with the selected filter data To change the filter click the Modify button The filter configuration will be updated with your new data To delete an existing alarm filter press the Delete button 157 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Dynamic Text Object Dynamic Text Object enables users to display a text in a report where the value will be determined during report generation To add this object click on the Dynamic text button on the Report Designer Studio Elements toolbar Draw a rectangle in the workspace where the output data will be displayed The following dialog window will be opened Dynamic text si Select type of dynamic data to display Instance Mame Es Report Hame File Hame Full File Hame Froject Hame j Current User Instance Mame Version ID You can select one of the following types of Dynamic Text e Report Name the name of the actual report e File Name the name of the generated report PDF file e Full File Name the name of the generated report PDF file including its file path e Project Name the name of the actual reporting project e Current User the name of the user who has generated that report e Instance Name the name of the instance of the generated report For details of report instances Instance Name please go to the Virtual Report Instances section
346. istory access enables using proprietary history of external data server for report generation When source is configured it can be added to a general list of data sources defined in a project by clicking on Add button The source configured will appear in the Defined drivers list Button Delete will delete selected source from the list NOTE If you need to configure the same driver more than once then after having configured it the first time you ll just need to click in the Select Data Source Type field on any other driver and then go back to the driver that you need to configure When all the communication settings for the project are done click OK and the driver configuration will be finished For detailed information on how to configure different types of drivers please see related parts of the Communication Drivers section 283 NY ODBC Driver Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Dream Report includes ODBC driver which enables connectivity to any external databases which support ODBC connectivity and have supported data structure ODBC driver of Dream Report provides automatic tag browsing tag and alarm data extraction To configure ODBC driver first open the Communication Configuration Wizard dialog window Select Data Soui Type g intera yy ondanaans i Aspertech H Open cormnureeaton probak o Mins a oy A Excel Dale lmpor peste vaes FO res time values E Modbus TOPARP AS ASL TT A O
347. it to data option will draw a chart window only for a period of time when values for its data item exists If the chart window is configured for 1 week and during report generation its data item has values only during 1 day then the chart window will automatically be drawn for 1 day only This option is very useful to display charts on batches The Chart type combo box offers 2 modes of drawing a chart line e Value based mode will draw a regular chart line which connects all value points The example is displayed on the picture below 205 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Time based mode will draw a horizontal line of a value until the time point when the value is changed This line type is usually used to display line chart for binary values chart of run time of a motor or valve state etc The example is displayed on the picture below 03 05 14 PM 03 05 15 PM 03 05 18 PM 03 05 21 PM BReactlevel The Deviation section enables a user to filter all item values and draw a line only on key values optimizing a chart line and avoiding numerous minor value changes Deviation in will analyze array of item values and each next value will be ignored if its difference is less from value of previous valid point than defined of deviation Grid settings User can define any of 4 available grid setting options for the chart object Fine If this option is selected the grid will subdivide the chart object into small cells v
348. items from that setpoint Slowest entry item the function will calculate the item tag which has last reached the stability period the one which has the latest timestamp of the first value within the stability period Then the function will do its main calculation only for that item and not to for all items from that setpoint Fastest exit item the function will calculate the item tag which has first left the stability period the one which has the earliest timestamp of the first value out of the stability range after stability period end time Then the function will do its main calculation only for that item and not for all items from that setpoint Slowest exit item the function will calculate the item tag which has last left the stability period the one which has the latest timestamp of the first value out of the stability range after stability period end time Then the function will do its main calculation only for that item and not for all items from that setpoint 136 N 2 KeS Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Selected Tag then the Setpoint Tags selection box will appear Select setpoints w Select s tpoints setpoint name pase C Oven 2 O Oven 3 Consider items Selected Tag Se tort Tags Producton 1 The dropdown menu will include all the items tags for the setpoint selected When a user will select the item tag he may need for the calculations the function will calculate that item tag wh
349. ith the Wonderware company policy on issuing licenses There are 2 types of licenses production and consignment gt The production license is non expiring gt The consignment license is temporary and has an expiration date If a customer needs to upgrade either tags or web clients for the Wonderware based license the existing license file should be deleted and the new upgrade license file should be installed If Wonderware customer wants to use uses Dream Report license issued by ODS and needs to upgrade it then the existing file should be deleted and the new upgrade license file issued by ODS should be installed using License Upgrade Tool LUT of Dream Report 7 Invalid License lf during Dream Report installation the Invalid license message box appears please consider the following reasons for this 1 The software license file license dat has been installed on the wrong PC i e in case when the activation file activation dat was generated on one PC and the license file is being used for another PC 2 The software license file license dat or the hardware USB key protection license is used with the wrong old version 3 The USB plug license has an error in reading the USB plug then the driver has to be reinstalled and a user should contact the Dream Report technical support team Support dreamreport net 6 1 USB License Upgrade Invalid License NOTE Please note that when the hardware USB key license is upgraded the
350. its items names e When using Analytical driver analytical items and analytical data can be used in any item related Dream Report object i e Single Data Item Table Pie Graph Bar Graph Line Chart e We recommend defining analytical groups and objects with analytical data only after regular objects are completely defined This part has to be the last stage of project development 316 NY Web Manual Driver Dream Report includes Web Manual driver which enables connectivity to any external databases which support ODBC connectivity and have supported data structure To configure Web Manual driver first open the Internal folder of the Communication Configuration Wizard dialog window Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Communication Configuration Wizard x Select Dala Source Type Configure Driver far Selected Source Delined Drwers List SE Internal Drwer Logical Name J Anaylica reaime values DB ateh historical values Driver Logical Name BB CreanRepart eS MATT bias Add mimg wpe a aa i Process a Simulation Drise Nolen WB Proces 4 fondensare BB Process_Setpoint H E Aspertech z scape Open conniurncahon protocols Scapa 7 Citect Siemens A E Eutetherm 4 Laylet H Mitsubishi Emeta H Are Informatique 7 Techno Trade PE finer Date Souwee Desciphon Web marsal dines Click on Configure button and the following dialog window will be opened C
351. its value as a value for that parameter for this specific report generation NOTE If you need to enter manual data from the Manual Data Entry real time values driver you will have to do the following 1 Create Single Data Object in the report 2 In this Single Data Object select the manual data item from the Manual Data Entry real time values driver which you need for your setpoint module 3 Select the Last Value statistical function for this Single Data Object 4 When double clicking on the needed edit box in the setpoint module configuration select from Analytical driver this Single Data Object The setpoint module will then read the last value for the manual tag entered Process Success Criteria This section contains the set of options which will be used to define automatic process validation e All values are within defined bandwidth during stability period option controls the situation when one or multiple values will fall out of stability bandwidth If this option is enabled the process result will be Failea lf this option is disabled then the process result will be Succeed e Rate of change is not less than expected Rate of change is not more than expected option controls how rate of change influences the result f rate of change is less than expected and the option Rate of change is not less than expected is enabled the process will fail and if this option is unchecked the process will succeed
352. itter and the menu option in the View menu as well as driver definition dialog box access will be disabled and user will not be able to edit data communication settings Access to runtime engine defines if the user has rights to control runtime manager operations If this option is disabled the Runtime Management Console dialog box will be unavailable for that user NOTE If RMC is password protected and is minimized and hidden in the system tray then every time user wants to maximize it by double clicking on the RMC icon in the system tray RMC will ask for user authorization Access to web portal defines if the user has a right to access the web portal and browse and generate reports over the web Full Administrator Rights define if a user has all access rights as well as a right to access to the user definition window to modify existing users and their properties and create new users Usually this access Is given to project administrators lf this option is enabled then all other check boxes with allowed access rights will automatically become checked but not allowed for manual editing If this option is enabled for a user then every time this user logs in the Dream Report Studio the Edit project users command button in the User Management section of the Project ribbon icon on the 63 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd horizontal or vertical toolbar will be enabled And the user will have an access to editing project users i
353. ity Project Neb Elements p Hyperlink Action Combo Timestamp Button Box Picker eb Form Elements Draw a rectangle in the workspace where the output data will be displayed The following Hyperlink Configuration dialog box will be opened Hyperlink Configuration x Hyperlink Task options Set URL to open web hyperlink Select Report to be loaded 0 Set Report with Parameters http www dreamreport net Cancel If Set URL to open web hyperlink option is selected user MUST ENTER A WEB PAGE ADDRESS http and then after clicking on that hyperlink a new web page will be opened navigated to a specified hyperlink please see the pic above 217 D If Select Report to be loaded option is selected the dialog will display a combo box with the list of all reports available for that user and he she will be able to select which form will be opened upon clicking on that hyperlink please see the pic below Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Hyperlink Configuration SK Hyperlink Task options Set URL to open web hyperlink Select Report to be loaded Set Report with Parameters If Set Report with Parameters option is selected user will have to click on the Configure button in order to enable internal hyperlink for the project report please see the pic below J Enable Hyper Link Pass parameters information Set Parameter Select Parameter Data Source cyde 2
354. ivity Project Web Element Las y DE q q A Dbatch Add item Add alarm tion Configuration group group Connectivity configuration a Report Studia AFTI Configuration defj List of Reports oO a Braiert Rennrte ict The following driver configuration dialog box will be opened Communication Configuration Wizard Select Dala Source Type G E Internal A naylica a ime values Diash hishoncal values Conhgure Dire far Selected Source Driver Logical Mame HS Aspertech H E Open conmmurication protocols Citect i Siemens iy Eurotherm H Loytee H Mitsubishi Emea Are Infoamatigue J Techno Trade _ ea Stim ret Data Souce Descriptor heb manwal dined 2S Seton H Wonderware f n His Delined Drreers List Onvet Logical Name BB CieanFepatt BB Energy BB brccess W Procesz BB Process_ Setpoint Scapa MB scabs 92 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd When the driver configuration window is opened in the Driver Logical Name section the Dream Report analytical driver Analytics will be automatically configured and you will not need to do its configuration again This driver Analytical real time values is an internal module responsible for record of statistical data calculated by Dream Report to the database NOTE In Dream Report version 3 43 each driv
355. ization Tag Definition configuration Paths File configuration Dictionary users control User Management Project Settings i Li Project Parameters Definition The Internal Project Parameters Dialog window will be opened please see the picture below internal Project Parameters Dialog be Internal Project Parameters parameta name Project Parameter Referenca a bia Procter Parameter Descriatior Producton Report v Select Object Parameter type Ot Producton ad ete Parameter Mame Parameter name Cyoe 1 Humber Cyde 2 Sung Cyde 3 Timestamp caca In the Internal Project Parameters Dialog window user can define multiple internal parameters Each parameter can have 57 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd e Parameter Name string with a maximum of 32 characters it must have a value e Parameter Description string with a maximum of 128 characters can remain empty e Parameter Type enumerated number IPP_TYPE_NUM IPP_TYPE_STR IPP_TYPE_TS it must have a value e Project Parameter Reference default value it has 2 parameters Report name Select Report and object name Select Object Those parameters can remain empty Select Report combo box will be automatically filled with the list of all reports available in the project Select Object combo will be empty by default As soon as any report in the Select Report combo box is selected the Select Obje
356. ization section contains additional user definitions like user related language and expiration of the entire account Select language option enables you to assign specific language of the Dream Report studio interface studio menus strings in dialog windows etc to specific users It allows more convenient and use friendly project development in multi lingual teams which develop and maintain a project Check box Account expires on enables the option to limit the validity period of the entire account If this check box is unchecked the account has an unlimited term of validity If this check box is enabled then the period of the user account validity will be limited until the period defined in the calendar combo box below NOTE If the user authentication enabled project is launched either in the studio or in the runtime a login window will be prompted Login administrator Password The login window will also appear if a user clicks on the Login with different user command button in the User Management section of the Project ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar either in the Dream Report Designer Studio or Logger Studio menu see pic below wry 7 Home Connectivity Project Web Elements Tools Runtime y 2B EFi i ic ao se ft General Data Base Web Set Log Hotbackup Localization Tag Project Parameters Login with dit project Version Definition configuration Paths File configuration Dictionary Definition diff
357. ject Settings section or in the Runtime Management Console dialog window NOTE For IIS versions 7 7 5 and 8 if user clicks on Configure IIS button the Application Pool OdsDrAppPool will be automatically created Thus for 64 Bit OS this will allow automatic configuration of Dream Report Web portal To load the web portal on the local computer open Internet Explorer and type hitp localhost drweb or http lt IP address gt drweb This will automatically open the welcome page of the Dream Report web portal DRWeb is the default alias name for the Dream Report web portal which is automatically created in web server If you want to change that alias you can setup a custom alias name in the Web Configuration dialog box in the Project Settings If the current running Dream Report project is password protected the user will be prompted to enter valid login information Only users authorized to access the web site under User Management in the Project Settings will be allowed to access the portal If User Management is not enabled in the Dream Report project the web portal will not ask for user authorization Only reports allowed for the current user will be displayed If several Dream Report stations are used then on the welcome page the user will be able to choose which station he wants to access 351 D Web Portal in Dream Report Version Upgrade In order to successfully upgrade Web Portal to Dream Report version 4 2 when you
358. ject start All data exceeding the limits will be deleted without being backed up into another database This option is recommended to be used especially with databases with limited allowed database sizes for example with SQL Server 2005 limited to 4 Gb or SQL Server 2008 which is limited to 10 Gb In the Data Logging Settings section you can configure your timestamp settings for a timestamp for logged item values and alarms Data Logging Timestamp Resolution The Dream Report logging system enables you to select timestamp resolution for logged item values The default timestamp resolution is 1000 msec which means that by default Dream Report is logging data with 1 sec resolution and milliseconds are rounded to a second using standard rounding rules This significantly saves the database space and keeps it more usable However if in any specific cases second resolution is not enough and milliseconds are required you can set your resolution in a Timestamp resolution edit box If msec resolution is set then all incoming milliseconds will be rounded using standard rounding rules according to the selected resolution Here are few examples Example 1 If resolution is set to 1000 msec and 2 values are coming value 5 ts 12 01 10 125 and value 6 ts 12 01 10 550 Result both values will be recorded with timestamps value 5 ts 12 01 10 and value 6 ts 12 01 11 Example 2 If resolution is set to 1000 msec and 2 values are coming valu
359. jects Then when objects start to jump to a new page they will start it only from some area keeping the certain upper section free For this users have to define header To create a header you have to place all your header objects to their places drag down a small green triangle on a vertical ruler on the top left side of the workspace and place it below your header objects as displayed on the picture below 7 ra 30 Then all the area above that triangle will be greyed and all objects located in that grey area will be kept clean from any overlaying tables or other objects Please note that when you drag down the green triangle it will create the header area not only on the page where you drag it but also on every page of that report including all new pages which will be dynamically created while generating that report Creating a footer should be done using exactly the same procedure but just dragging up the green triangle on the left bottom part of the vertical ruler NOTE Report pages can be also saved as templates by clicking on the DR Main Button in the upper left part of the Dream Report Designer Studio please see the picture below New Report b p hen Project Tg Save As Report Template ae m Save Moject Save Project As F Print d P 235 N Report Templates The Report Template mechanism allows users to create templates of entire reports to be used for creating other reports It ca
360. k on the Connec button and the RMC will try to connect to the runtime control service which is running on that PC If connection can t be established the user will get a message box with an appropriate error If the connection has been established the RMC window will be updated with the information from the new project which it s connected to By default it will be connected to the local computer RMC also visualizes the following information about the project e State the status of the project performance Running or No Project is Running e User the name of the project user if defined e Operating Mode the mode for the project which is running Active as master i e connected to the main station or Passive in the backup mode if the hot backup node is configured The button Reload will have a drop down menu which will have the following entries e Reload project e Reload reports e Close project NOTE You can also reload project reports directly from the Dream Report Studio by clicking on the Reload project or Reload reports command buttons on the vertical toolbar both in the Dream Report Logger Studio and Dream Report Designer Studios see pic below 263 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Reload project Reload reports lf you log data into the Dream Report internal history and want to change data logging conditions for your project please select Reload project option lf you want to change a
361. king on the ProjectWizard exe file in the Dream Report project system folder then when you click Create nothing will happen The created project and all its configuration files will be saved in the Dream Report Project folder in a special folder that will have the name defined in the Project Name section of Project Wizard Then if you want to continue project development in the Dream Report Designer Studio in a normal working mode you will only have to double click on the lt project name gt drpj file to start the project NOTE If you click Create and the message box Project Name is Empty will pop up please go back to the Project Name section and define the name of the project Then you ll have to go again through all the steps of project creation in the Project Wizard the only section which will remain configured will be Connectivity and the new project will now be saved in a specified folder with all project and report files according to the information already entered in the completed steps For details please see Project Name section 44 NY Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Project Settings General Project Settings is a dialog box which defines global settings of the opened project All entered data will be applied to the overall project To open Project Settings click on the command button General on the Project ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar either in the Dream Report Logger Studio or Dream Report
362. l Alarms communication driver is selected then as soon as you click on Configure button the following WWALM Historical Alarms driver configuration dialog window will be opened Connection settings Alarm filters Select locaton of SQL Server with WAYAL database T Local database Remote database SOL Server instance mame Login Passed aden oon Database name VWAWALMDE Test commect 319 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Connection Settings In this window user can define connection to the WWALMDB Wonderware Alarms Database database The connection to the WWALMDB database can be configured either by using the SQL Server database locally Local database or remotely Remote database If the SQL server which is running the WWALMDB database is configured with user authentication then enter login and password for the SQL Server into the corresponding edit boxes If your SQL Server is configured with Windows Authentication mode leave the user name and password edit boxes empty The Test Connect button will try to establish communication to the WWALMDB database based on SQL Server Alarm Filters In this window user can define alarm filters and alarm filtering conditions please see the picture below 3 x Connection settings Alarm filters F Alarm Hier settings i Fiter name DEFAULT Fiter name DEFAULT Conditions Operation Property Condition OR Taghame TEXT i5 NOT HULL ii Add condities Rena
363. l alarms iHistorian Connectivity historical values iHistorian Connectivity historical alarms Eurotherm folder will have three entries Real time values in controllers using Modbus Historical values in Review or UHH database Historical alarms messages in Review or UHH database Real time batch monitor UHH DB historical messages UHH DB historical values UHH DB batch monitor SCS S SCS S gt KS SCS S SCS S gt S gt S SCS S SCS S 2 hS gt KS SCS S SCS KS gt S SCS S 2 SCS KS SCS KS SCS S SCS S When configuring any historical driver values or alarms in Eurotherm Review UHH user will see a check box asking to create automatically batch definitions for every Instrument Group If checked then on adding a driver Dream Report will automatically generate batch definitions for every instrument group found in selected Review UHH database When the type of driver is selected from the Data source tree it will automatically appear in the Driver Logical name box for configuration To configure driver communication parameters button Configure will open driver configuration dialog box If driver doesn t have any configuration interface that button will be disabled Data access alarm and history access drivers have to be configured separately and independently OPC DA driver can be configured differently from the OPC AE driver H
364. l be opened Pinter Coniuyuration Cates Pirie Scunce L_ Excel L PDF Adobe Acsobat Priman pinha kpi Backup prde lst Pinter name Pinter name Adobe PDF CO Adobe PDF O Auo Brother HL 2030 series on Ods 005 O Aube Brother HL 2030 tarer on Ods 005 O Auto Canon MP610 series Porter on HOMESER Auto Canc MP1 peres Porter on HOMESER CI Auto Micwosolt XFS Document write on WOPS2 O Auto bingo MPS Document writer on WORS O Fax Fax O Microsoft Office Document image Water Microsoft Office Document image Water C Micresatt Ofhee Live Meeting 2007 Document w CI Micresoft Offes Live Meeting 2007 Document w Micresolt PS Document Wrba O Microsoft PS Document Wither O Foras O Porsss Sampung CL 31 70 Seres O Semang H70 Sems Send To Onetote 2007 Send To Onet ote 2007 O Snsd O Snid Print repoet on default printer ox Coxe User can select one or several printers where each report will be printed each time it is generated The Paper size and orientation portrait or landscape will be taken from the Report File Format section of the Report Settings window The options Excel and PDF enable you to specify which formats of result report you wish to print the report in PDF format or and the report in Excel format There is no limitation regarding printer type or manufacturer The Primary printer list defines the main list of printers on which report will be printed One or multiple printers can be selected Activ
365. l objects to your report NOTE New report can be added to the project not only via the context menu of the report tree in the Report Designer Studio but also by clicking on the ODS button in the upper left part of the Dream Report Designer Studio To add insert a new page click on nsert new page icon on the toolbar in the Report Designer Studio see on the pic below 23 Copy Objet gt A Paste Object Cut Clipboard 108 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd To delete a page from the report right click on that page and select Delete current page from the popup menu Cut Copy Object Copy Object Properties Paste Object F ie 2 i a Paste Object Properties Search and Replace Search Object by UUID Tag Dictionary Virtual Report Instances Insert New Page Background Set As Background Modify Disable ort Menu pen m Dy 1 Grid Settings Report Settings The first page of report cannot be deleted and therefore Delete Current Page will be disabled on the first page of report NOTE New report can be also configured by clicking on the DR Main Button in the upper left part of the Dream Report Designer Studio please see the picture below Save Project SI Save Project As P Lh A Print t P Exit Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Rulers and Grid The Rulers and Grid dialog box define
366. lay your extracted data please see the picture below D moes Cornea Paad Wakene Toon Puise tui steams RE T geen a O ESRR ANA GCO ao e E LS Darercmens L nore roe Sun aaa P dee imap At Bero Sempenel Sun mnt Bfitas Ess w a a a a d iy Fes Goreeny hetaae Anget taa out bigrors ETOR greene Paden ana Gaa Logger Bude im Pi Mapon Deagee udo Cren Le of Reapers Cor rgardt s z 7 z H IJ reg ipot orrpin E P OEE PerteerwrxeardMan p D Production and Merafectur Vet a Arpat initam t a I m por Arsin i a Wate a Wacte Water fun Praqect i all viet Peponi le Uren ten Retved pont i ir ET taca Tais Wet hand pits i K Atomet Mainos Ties A idt prep man E ma E e Ter For detailed description of different types of dynamic objects which Dream Report offer please refer to the corresponding topics of the Designer Studio section of this manual select in the Dream Report Designer Studio Web Elements ribbon the dynamic interactive objects which are available ONLY in web report formats in Dream Report Web Portal and enable users to interact with different report data enter values select values from combo boxes push button with a pre defined operation and others 7 Home Connectivity Project eb Elements f Hyperlink Action Combo Timestamp Button Box Picker d For detailed description of different types of Web elements please refer to the correspo
367. layed and operation won t be undertaken Result Representation Such an object will be displayed in the report only as an edit box User will be able to select it in the DR Designer Studio and change its size and font properties When displayed in a report in the DR studio it will contain a value of its statistical objects Example If an object is displayed in the studio as object then edit box will contain the text object This edit box result representation will be available only in web reports If report is opened in the DR Web Portal in the web format the calculated default value will be written in the edit box control That value can be changed manually If an action button with Refresh report function is defined then user will be able to enter different manual values and re calculate report using those manual values If user enters manual value into the edit box this object won t be re calculated and manual value will be used instead of Refresh report action If edit box is empty then during Refresh report operation the object value will be re calculated according to its definition If report is generated by schedule in PDF the object value will be displayed in PDF as default result representation without any edit box For details on Refresh report action please see Action Button section of this manual NOTES Single data objects with the Manual input statistical function will be displayed ONLY in
368. le name Example i Analytics Report1 energy1 f This dynamic token has the following format f Field Names and is used as a parameter that will be replaced dynamically by the value of the item specified in it It can be used as a part of a Advanced SQL condition b In Expression Objects c In SQL Single Data Objects or in SQL tables Example fitenergy1 NOTE TIP value of f token can be used only as part of the current report If user wants to get this value in another report he can use i token via analytical driver s This dynamic token returns to the project different system information and can be used in Dynamic Text Objects Example s ReportName dt This is the DateTime token which has the following format dt lt object_name gt and can be used in Expression Objects in order to perform time based calculation operations Example dt energy5 cb This dynamic token has the following format cb lt object_names and can be used in 2 possible ways a For referencing Combo Box objects where lt object_names gt is a name of the Combo Box object b In Expression Objects If the value of the combo box has to be used in the project it is necessary to define an Expression object that will contain cb lt object_names format After that it will be possible to use this expression in other places where dynamic tokens can be used Example cob maintenance1 tp This dyn
369. le was generated for the generic report template the string Default will be used Click Add and the component will be added in an appropriate format and the separator will be added automatically Date time of file generation in various formats Select any format of date time from the Add Date Time combo box and click on the button Ado The component will be added in an automatically appropriate format and the Report Settings Project Reports List Alarm Tables AuAomatc Statistica Tat Bacteriologia Report Sa Graphs Batch info Report Satch Trend Charts Osta Tables Demo Batch Report Energy Effoency Repor Equinonent availablity re Auornde Monthly Report GW Monthly Operating F Inckators Monthly Operating Repo Me Graphs Report Energy Report Maintenance Report Production Report Refinery Report Water Setpomt Ansivas Singe objects SQL Tables Step Tades Turbadty Report Web Trend Wikigets ok Corel separator Report Name Format Index File Name Report flename mack Alsrm_Tables_generated_ d FULL_TIMESTAMP Report nstance name Report nane Sa Agd Add Oate Time Select Data Item Dats Source tem Name Add Report Time Definition Generate Repot On Event Rapon File Format Report Preprocessor Macros User Authorization will be added During report generation this component will be replaced by the date time of the report generation The current value of any t
370. lect Data Source Type section of the Communication Configuration Wizard and clicks on the button Configure then the following Eurotherm data access driver configuration dialog window will be opened 334 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Eurotherm data access diver configuration si Select database type Select database location Use Review database From default location Use Review database From custom location E O In this window user can select the type of the archives which need to be accessed and the location of those archives User doesn t need to create and configure a DSN or do any configuration other than just pick up the archive selection NOTE If you need to configure the same driver more than once then after having configured it the first time you ll just need to click in the Select Data Source Type field on any other driver and then go back to the driver that you need to configure 335 NY Eurotherm UHH DB Communication Drivers Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Eurotherm UHH DB communication drivers enable connecting to UHH database s and extracting data alarms from UHH database s created as a result of UHH data import using UHH Import Tool These drivers are available in the Eurotherm folder of the Select Data Source Type section of the Communication Configuration Wizard please see the picture below Communication Configuration Wizard xi CT Soca a Configure Driver for Selected
371. lecting PcVue driver during Dream Report installation it s recommended to select also installation of Visual C 2005 redistributable component in the Components section of the same window of Dream Report installation e f you need to configure the same driver more than once then after having configured it the first time you ll just need to click in the Select Data Source Type field on any other driver and then go back to the driver that you need to configure 346 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Wizcon Communication Driver Wizcon drivers of Dream Report enable you to connect to Wizcon SCADA using native connection and get access to the real time data real time alarms and historical data and alarms of the Wizcon running project When you select any Wizcon driver form the Wizcon folder in the Select Data Source Type section of the Communication Configuration Wizard dialog window see the picture below there is no need to make any special configuration unless you want to configure collection of real time network alarms from Wizcon network Communicalson Conkigucsiion Wiccan Select Data Sout Tppe z mok PP Conlie Duam iw Selected Souta Deiren Direers List Be icra i Dirai Logical Harrek J pre ar HEJ Aspertech W Analytics HE Open cormurecatinn protezo Add BB Hanus H Disa BM ovec H Siemens i B SuteLink dives Ei turahan te HEJ Arc Infomatique HE Techno Tracie H wipes l E Wico Maive restime value E wic
372. led You will have first to install IIS and then configure IIS for details please see Installation Tips Internet Information Services IIS can be also configured from the Runtime Management Console for details please see Runtime Management Console section NOTES gt For IIS versions 7 7 5 and 8 if user clicks on Configure IIS button the Application Pool OdsDrAppPool will be automatically created Thus for 64 Bit OS this will allow automatic configuration of Dream Report Web portal gt If you upgrade Web Portal to Dream Report version 4 2 when you click Configure IIS button you will have to agree to save the backup of your Web Portal configuration Please click Yes in the IIS configurator window which will pop up asking Do you want to backup the actual content of your project web files 50 NY Default language for web clients combo box defines which language will be used for a web client by default if a language on a web client web browser does not exist in the product language list Dream Report Station Name is a logical name of the Dream Report station which will be displayed in the list of Dream Report stations URL is a real address with the alias name of the Dream Report virtual folder Display Options group box contains check boxes which enable disable display of different elements of a web portal This is a global setting per project which allows users to tune the desired vi
373. lipboard Quick Lau 4 f G Driver List of Reports__ a Select Save as Page Template option Page template file will be created with ptdr extension NOTE Users can also save the current report page as a template by clicking on the ODS button in the upper left part of the Dream Report Designer Studio By default page template files are saved in the Templates folder within the Dream Report installation directory To apply a page template to a report click the right mouse button on the context menu on a report in the report list You can also click on the command button Page Template on the Home ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar Select Apply Page Template option The standard Windows File Open dialog box will be opened and a user can select any page template to apply to the current page Once the template is added to a report each template element pictures background graphic objects etc will be available for editing as independent objects If a user applies a page template to an existing report it will add all template elements to the report page and will not damage the existing report content Creating a Footer and a Header When you save your page as a template it will be replicated for every new created page of that report When making reports with long tables which create and jump to the new pages user may need to keep some upper 234 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd area of every page free of any ob
374. ll be opened User Management x Were And Groups Authari Lei of Upee Gred ba Lite actes myi Piei Repi Weer eous Hama Foageart mame airin F Amores bo Chesigrer Stucko later inepte ngr i Piega ates PP maintenance fi Appers bo Data Configuration Fiapo Fiehinery Tei eee Feepodt Batch bechraciar F Acres ho Aunties Erga Production amp Ftechauppent Od Production hel Geretale lepers nn Runtime Erge Maintenance eran LC os Cs Ls Cs E a Erag Hres Stoo Oh Shutdown Runtime E erpa eS Enay repeat Alanis l Apai bo Web Pala fel Generate Reporta in the Web Fota Ful Achriwetratcr Maghi gt The List of Users and Groups will be filled with all local users and groups defined in Dream Report as well as with all users and groups from the Windows active directory selection in the Users and Groups section You can select any user group and assign its access rights by checking the corresponding check boxes with allowed access rights in the User access rights section of this dialog window Access to designer studio defines if the user has a right to access and edit graphical representation of project reports If this option is switched off the Designer Studio floating splitter and the same menu option in the View menu will be disabled Access to data configuration defines if the user has rights to access communication and data logging definition sections If this option is switched off the Logger studio floating spl
375. ll know by itself how to get tag names and data 286 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd e lf you have selected Aspen InfoPlus 21 no column mapping is required Dream Report will know by itself how to get tag names and data 5 Timestamp management In order to comply with different timestamp formats of different databases ODBC driver has a powerful mechanism to configure timestamp format which will be received from a database ODBC driver can process timestamps in SQL Date Time format or as a string If timestamp is stored in one column then if you use Column ltem or Any database type select only a column with Timestamp from the Table field for date combo box If timestamp is stored in two columns then if you use Column ltem or Any database type select only a column with date from the Table field for time combo box Timestamp properties If timestamp is used in local time zone timestamp will be accepted as it has been retrieved from the database If timestamp is used in GMT format check the Database uses UTC time format check box Then all timestamps received from a database will be automatically converted into a local time zone If date format has a special non standard SQL format a user can select a format from the date format selection combo box Date format If timestamp with that date contains only date no time then check the Date only check box next to the Date format combo box 6 Browsing from a text fil
376. log box will be opened Action Button Conficuration x Button Caption Validate Production Data Select Action Validate Data Action Parameters Validate Source Tank1_Avg T 375 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd In this dialog window user has to define the name for the caption Button Caption select an action to be done when this button will be pushed Select Action and also configure Action Parameters if needed Each defined action has its proper parameters for action There are 10 actions available Validate data 77 19 b 1 b 13 Submit Correction Submit Refresh report Generate report Login with different user Logout File transfer Generate PDF and Reset web report data If Validate data action is selected there will be no special action parameters to configure Access to the data validation action will be managed on the level of configuration of a user access to that report only supervisor login can access the validation of the report data lf Submit Correction action is selected there will be no special action parameters to configure User will only have to select the source Submit Source and the report fields will be checked for correct data in that source If report validation is passed the data will be recorded into the database please see the pic below Select Action Submit Correction Action Parameters Submit Sour
377. lt minimum will be set to 0 and maximum to 100 The Main Division section defines the range between 2 neighbor valued ticks on a scale major ticks next to which scale numbers are drawn This parameter may contain only positive number integer or float By default it will be set to 10 e g scale will be display 0 10 20 100 scale ticks The Subdivisions section defines how many small horizontal lines scale divisions will be drawn between 2 neighbor ticks This parameter may contain only positive number integer or float By default this will be set to 10 e g 10 tick divisions between 2 scale marks 154 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd The Linear Indicator display type will have the following graphical representation see pic on the right The main division here is defined as 10 i e the scale displays 0 10 20 100 scale ticks Subdivision is defined as 5 i e there are only 5 small horizontal lines between each of the two neighbor ticks e g between 10 and 20 20 and 30 etc Supply Air The Gauge display type will have the following graphical representation 20 00 30 00 an The main division here is defined as 10 i e the scale displays 0 000 10 00 50 00 scale ticks Subdivision is also defined as 10 i e there are 10 small horizontal lines between each of the two neighbor ticks eg between O and 10 00 10 00 and 20 00 etc In the Appearance section set visual settings for a gauge or l
378. lue Assign Selechon to Tag Production_1 Feobject1 Real Time Item HDA Them Daia Source Display Date trom DGC data aiii Multi selecton tem Name ED Vah Batch_JD Batch_ID Send Result To Show Data Source List Show Tag List Show Report Instances List Show Batch Definitions Show Batch IDs List iz Timestamp Date Titre Flow _datta_time_1 Flow _data_bme_1 W This Combo Box is Obligatory 7 visible in POF T Add Def Value lt Not specified gt Lox _ cme es Object Name must be a unique logical name which will be used in further work with that object within the project Default Value enables to set value which will be displayed as default in the Combo Box object in WEB reports in Dream Report Web Portal Data Display Configuration The Display Data from combo box has 9 source types of data to display Manual values SQL query Tag e e values List of users Show Data Source List Show Tag Listt Show Report Instances List Show Batch Definitions and Show Batch IDs List 369 N e Manual values data display In the Data Configuration section user has to specify manually a set of values text or numeric separated by comma or or semi column please see the pic below Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Combo Hor Configuration x Object name Default Value Assign Selection to Tag Producton_1 Feobject 1 gt Real Time tem HDA
379. m Review driver has now three instances and should be configured separately as Historical values in Review or UHH database Historical alarms messages in Review or UHH database or Real time batch monitor When you open Internal folder the following list when expanded will be displayed Analytical real time values Web Manual Driver MVE real time values e Simulation Driver displayed as a folder Simulation Driver real time values Simulation Driver real time alarms Simulation Driver historical values Simulation Driver historical alarms Open communication protocols folder will display the following list of open communication protocols e CSV displayed as a folder List when expanded v Tag values in CSV files v Alarms in CSV files e FCI real time values e Modbus TCP IP RS232 ASCII displayed as a leaf node e Excel Data Import real time values e ODBC folder will display two entries ODBC historical values ODBC historical alarms e OLE DB folder will display OLE DB historical values OLE DB historical alarms e OPC driver displayed as a folder List when expanded OPC DA real time values e OPC AE real time alarms e OPC HDA history data access SNMP real time values e BACnet driver displayed as a folder List when expanded BACnet real time values BACnet real time alarms and events BACnet historical values from trend objects Wonderware folder will display
380. m Enary Anaise Data Ther Agd Marumi bem Added Data Ibara S080 dats Baich Asih _ i Desiip on l Aid gt o l 7 m i opac fata Batch DD l Flemove Bind Remove Hi ok Cancel This window will automatically select the driver which has been selected in the Select Data Item tag selection window User will be able to select any other HDA driver defined in the project and pre define the list of favorite tags for all defined required data sources in the same window without closing and re opening it If the Select Data Item tag selection window has no driver selected yet then the Select Data Items multi tag selection window will have no driver selected as well 122 N e When user will close the Select Data Items multi tag selection window and select Favorite tags list in the Select Data Item tag selection window the tag browser Item Name will not display all the entire list of tags from the data source but will display only the list of pre defined tags please see the pic below Select Data Hema a Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Select Dais Source Danay tag breve let opion ALG dala z All items Pavourtbe item kst L iem Filter Descipeon Filter Mara en airy Avalabie Cate lems Add Manual bem Path Added Dats Items ODEO data Batch Mei Tie hia DENT Add 33 ODE data Gatch o Batch_ID 5 E Bateh_ID Batch ID Famo E Batch_JD 10 Arran M Ce
381. m Report Project folder in a special folder that will have the name defined in the Project Name section of Project Wizard Then if you want to continue project development in the Dream Report Designer Studio in a normal working mode you will only have to double click on the lt project name gt drpj file to start the project When Project Wizard is started the first welcome window will be opened 19 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd This Wizard will help you create a turnkey simple project which you can edit and continue developing in Dream Raport studio You can stop and axit this wizard at any step without executing by clicking Close button The Next button will bring you to the next step and the Back button will bring you back one step to re configure or check configuration settings Batch Definition Good luck In this section you will find basic instructions on how to use Project Wizard You can either choose to start creating a new project or exit Click Start and go to the Project Name section Click Close to exit Project Wizard without any operations performed Project Wizard Navigation As you go through different steps of project creation each time one of the steps is finished the corresponding button in the left hand part of the Project Wizard window will get a green tick Project Name If you are in the process of performing the operation at some step of the project creation
382. m Report database or use them for calculations or filtering for regular reporting This functionality is enabled ONLY in Dream Report Web Portal for details about the Dream Report Web Portal please see Web portal section Manual Data Entry Functions also enable to select and transfer a file CSV or Excel file from a web client PC to the location defined in the Dream Report project thus allowing to import data from Excel or CSV files data importer automatically picks up such a file reads values and their corresponding timestamps and logs them all into a database Manual Data Entry Report Configuration To configure Manual Data Entry Reports operation user will have to 1 Create a Dream Report project where Manual Data Entry report s will be set please refer to the Project Settings section of this manual 2 Add and configure one or several instances of the Web Manual Driver and enter the list of manual parameters which will be available in reports please refer to the Web Manual Driver section 3 Define Dream Report project users which will have access to that project please refer to the User Management section 4 Design reports with Manual Data Entry and configure them correspondingly to the manual data parameters defined please refer to the Report Settings and Designer Studio sections 5 Define user access to every report i e select which users will be able to access that report please refer to the User Authorization secti
383. m another Combo box lf Select Data Source below option is selected then the Display Data from combo box will contain the list of data sources by the selected type Dream Report History or External History Server please see the pic above lf Select Data Source from another Combo box option is selected then the Display data from combo box will contain the list of web combo box objects defined in that report please see the pic below Display Data from Show Tag List Mult selection Data Configuration Select Date Source below Select Data Source from another Combo bow Display Data from Production A The Show Tag List combo box will be a drop down list where users will be able to select one or multiple tags in one selection The Show Tag List combo box in a web report will have no default selection If a report is generated from Web and this report has the Show Tag List combo box with no selection then all reports will be generated by default using tags originally defined in all report objects But if report is generated and the Show Tag List combo box has some tags selected then the report will be generated for the selected tags using the tag replacement mechanism used in Report Pre processor Show Report Instances List display If this option is selected then in real time it will be filled with the list of report instances defined for that report Show Batch Definitions display I
384. m name When calculating the result for the expression Dream Report will get the current value of the data item and replace i lt item name gt with the current value 144 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd For details please see List of Dynamic Tokens section To add mathematical or logical operators click on the appropriate button and it will be added to your calculation expression The calculation expression can be edited manually as well directly in the expression edit box The functions Sin Cos Tg SQRT Ln Log and Abs must be in the format Fn x Where Fn is one of those functions and x is a function argument which can be either a constant or a data item value or a statistic object The Log function calculates a base 10 logarithm and Ln calculates a natural logarithm with base e Calculations with times and time value types An expression object supports calculations using Single Data Objects created with a statistical function Timestamp of first value Timestamp of last value Timestamp of minimum value Timestamp of maximum value or Duration in the interval In these cases a user can make mathematical calculations with those objects and constants During calculation any such value of a date time type will be converted into a long integer type representing the number of seconds since 1 January 1970 expressed in UTC and then the calculations will be performed and the result converted back to a time for
385. mat again in UTC Example 1 Single Data Object On Duration is defined to calculate Duration in the interval when the ventilator was running and then an expression object is defined to calculate an average running time of the ventilator per day i e On_Duration 24 If result of calculation of On_Duration is 06 00 00 6 hours then the result of expression object will be 00 15 00 i e 06 00 00 24 Example 2 lf a user has to calculate the interval between the first value and the last value define 2 two Single Data Objects TimeOfFirstVal and TimeOfLastVal then the calculation can be done in an expression object which will have the following definition TimeOfLastVal TimeOfFirstVal If TimeOfLastVal 12 30 00 and TimeOfFirstVal 12 05 00 then the result value will be 00 25 00 The format of the output decimal precision unit advanced visualization etc is described in details in the Result Representation section Operations with strings Expression object allows few operations with strings such as concatenation string to a string concatenation numeric result with a string having result as a string extraction left or right or mid part of a string converting numeric value into a string This can be done as follows e Concatenation Strings concatenation is done using operator Example 1 If you need to concatenate a string tag BatchName value with another string MyString the syntax will be I HOPC BatchName
386. me in a web report the selected web combo box object has no selected value the report will be generated in a hardcopy PDF Excel format without any dynamic replacement If during report generation the selected combo box has the value s selected the report will be generated in a hardcopy PDF Excel format with original tags replaced by the web combo box selection either by other tags tag set selected in a web combo box object or by virtual report instance s 377 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd o If Select to generate by Batch option is enabled then user will be able to select one of 2 options Get Batch From or Get Batch Definition From v If Get Batch From option is enabled then the combo box below will be filled with the list of all web combo box objects which have the Batch ID List function please see the picture below Select Action Generate Report Action Parameters List of Reports Production Report List of defined report instances Make Dynamic Tag Replacement Get Tag List From en Select to generate by Batch Get Batch From If in real time in a web report the selected web combo box object has no selected value the report will be generated in a hardcopy PDF Excel format without any dynamic replacement If during report generation the selected combo box has the value s selected the report will be generated in a hardcopy PDF Excel format for the selected batch ID For
387. me tem HOA Item Data Source Dienlay Data fom orac data Show Data Source List x Multi selectian item Hame J Batch _ID Bateh_ID Data Configuration Send Result Ta 2 Dream Report Hetory Extemal History Server Timestamp Date Time V This Combe Bex is Obligatory F Visible in POF _ Add Def Value lt Not spedfied gt Cancel In a web report the web combo box will be filled with a list of data sources of the corresponding type Show Tag List If this display option is selected its configuration will be the following Combo Hor Confiquaiiion x Object name Default Value Assion Selecton to Tag Productaon_1 Feobject1 Real Time tem HDA liem Daia Source Display Data from ODBC _data Show Tag List Mult selection hem Name C i Batch 0 Batch ID Data Configuration Send Result To Select Date Source below U Select Dala Source from another Combo bow Dispay Data frome Dream Report Hatory External History Server opac _data Trestamp Date Time Flow_data_time_1 Fow_date_tme_i This Combe Box is Obligatory Visible in POF F Add Def Value lt Not specified x cance The Data Configuration section will have 2 radio buttons Select Data Source below and Select Data Source from another Combo box lf Select Data Source below option is selected then the Display Data from combo box will contain the list of data sources by the selected type Dream Report History or Exter
388. me Page has the following layout Duram Kapsi Partial Poed Gy ODi Techasi bitkan TETE EE TE Erghsh Welcome to Ocean Data Systems Reporting Portal Report name Report Formats Description Generated on New Report A Date Extraction ch PASADI doe AK F Daia Tahiri H kral ij PAANAN hoha i nies ea e BDA R000 Vee i J a en ai Pha ooh d SL Talii me ke a ak PiN ibi Uda i a FELTETT IA ic 5 gt Step Tables ee ryaayamn 11N i a Tis ee hE Pe Re TE TIE i Pie Cr aga bee mlk j AR i Th ie n m ay je T Dar Graphs a i Bs Pay 2010 LST S a z B Diaria E B DIIRIA LLIRM i a F Agtomatic Statistical Table i E BPa 2oun LS rs a re ic Gaaegy CMicieacy Apert ay leet latte i oe Web Portal Welcome Page displays the following data e Report name name of the report as defined in the Report Settings in the Designer Studio e Report Formats report format tyoes PDF Excel Web as defined in the Report Settings in the Designer Studio e Description description of the report if it is defined in the Report Settings in the Designer Studio e Generated on date and time of the last report generation e New Report standard generation New Report and dynamic report generation New Dynamic Report buttons Report Instances If a report has virtual instances defined it will be displayed as a tree When a user expands this tree the list of instances of that report will be displayed with the information
389. me control buttons on the toolbar of the Welcome main page and the Detail page The Welcome page has the Refresh button to update the reports information eg the number of reports and the last generation time The Detail Page toolbar has the Refresh button to update the reports information and the Back button to bring user back to the main page 352 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd NOTE When using the web portal on Windows Vista or Windows 2008 Server some minor manual configuration is required Please contact technical support for additional configuration instructions Before installing Dream Report with web portal on Windows Vista or Windows 7 please read this section Manual IIS configuration on Windows Vista or Windows 7 Web Portal Welcome Page Welcome Page of the Dream Report Web Portal enables users to browse a list of reports from the currently running project to visualize any existing report from the entire project and also to generate any report on user demand in real time When opening Dream Report web portal the actual web portal with access to history of all report PDF Excel files will be opened User will see the tree with reports PDF Excel Web report format icons and report generation buttons If no report in the project has Web option enabled then the Web reports section will not be displayed as no reports have been configured for the web format for details on how to enable Web optio
390. me edit box will display the current definition of that scheduler record Enter the new time in the Set Time edit box and selected desired days of the week in the Execute On group of days of the week check boxes After scheduler record settings editing is finished click the Modify button The selected record will be modified with the new settings The Monthly or Yearly report options enable users to define a specific time and day of the month or day of the year when the selected report will be automatically generated Please select which type of schedule you would like to use Monthly or Yearly lf Monthly option is selected then the Select Day combo box will be filled with the possible days of the month 1 31 Select which date of every month the selected report will be automatically generated To the right of date selection specify the time at which the report will be generated Select Day Select Time 33 N e f Yearly option is selected then the Select Day combo box will display a calendar to select a day of the year for the given report to be generated Though the calendar will contain the current year report generation will not be limited to the selected year Every year the report will be generated at your selected date To the right of date selection specify a time at which the report will be generated Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Select Day Select Time 6 21 2011 ka 10 00 00 e Never option should be selecte
391. means which report or instance format will be opened In the Project Access combo box a user can select one of the options from the drop down menu to have access to while the project is running e Open project folder Open reports folder Open log file folder Open web folder Open database folder allow a user to have access to one of the selected project folders e Open log file enables to open directly the log file which has traces about errors and information of the running project e Edit project opens Dream Report Designer studio e Open web portal enables a user to have direct access to the Dream Report web portal e Manual Value Editor allows direct access to the Manual Values Editor window if during running a project user must enter new updated manual values The Manual values editor window will be opened For details please see Manual Values Editor section e Configure IIS enables a user to configure IIS directly from the RMC NOTE 1 To have access to a project in the Dream Report Web Portal each time a new project is started user will have to configure IIS Internet Information Services for that project manually by clicking on the Configure IIS button If the IIS configuration process has succeeded user will get the message IIS configuration has been successfully completed Otherwise he will have to check the reason for the IIS configuration failure NOTE 2 If Internet Information Services IIS are not installed in yo
392. menu and popup messages Project Settings x When a new language is selected and a user clicks on Apply or OK a new language will be applied immediately No project restart is ie General needed Data Base Configuration All strings are loaded dynamically from the language database CE Lexicon mdb file which is located in the Database folder of net Raih Dream Report installation felis _ Each language is implemented in a separate table The name of the Donte ell ne table is the name of the language The list of tables in the language Looaireion database corresponds to the list of available languages it s Select Language recognized by Dream Report automatically English j Useful tip Set Date Time Format i In order to add a new language one needs only to add a new table Midiy v 5 23 2011 to the database which has to be the exact copy of the English table 24y plesk oe English is a template language open it and replace all English neyo ET strings by the translated ones The new table and new language will be recognized automatically thal l Fast day of week Fest week of pear Morgay sj Starts on 1 Jan st Date Format Dream Report provides users a capability to configure a format of the timestamp which will be displayed in various report objects The default value of the date format will be taken from the Windows enhe e ne ve regional settings of the local machine Use decimal separator ike this 1 00 v If a user wishes to change
393. mize RMC in the project please use the following parameter Minimize_RMC min2systray 1 If you don t want to minimize RMC please use the following parameter Minimize_RMC min2systray 0 2 If you need to check previous value for the number of days ago please use the following parameter DXT_HDA_ITEM PrevPointDays 1 In the PrevPointDayse line you can change a number of days depending on the time period when you need to check previous value 3 If you need to set parameter in seconds which will regulate time out of records in Dream Report Logger please use the following parameter WRITE_DB_BUFFER_TIMEOUT Seconds 10 You can change the period of time out in the Seconds line 4 If you need to define time period in hours when Dream Report project will be reloaded daily please use the following parameter UpdateControlTime Every 2 0 You can change time period in the Every line 5 If in the Designer Studio you want to use fonts other than the default ones please use the following parameter to apply the following font to Dream Report regional settings DefaultFont Name Microsoft Sans Serif If you want to change both font and language settings please use the following parameter DefaultFont Name Microsoft Sans Serif Charset EUROPEAN You can use the following list of Charset options ANSI DEFAULT SYMBOL MAC JAPANESE KOREAN WANSUNG 127 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd KO
394. ms Ltd OPC DeltaV Driver Configuration To configure OPC DeltaV driver first open the Communication Configuration Wizard dialog window Laurea Laa Wits s E Select Dabs Sauce Type Congue Duwe for Selected Source Defined Drivers List H E Irtermel Diver Logical Hame i wv cerecherwame a Aspentech Driver Logical Mar Eai Anaiptics i Open communication probocok idd OORE Aam HE Chect S ODGC_dats i Eurotherm Sim Aey E Latas Mitsubeshi j EI E patice OPC Deks walime valer B OPC Dets teabtine alan a OPE Deks huia vais OPC Deka hiboica sams 1 Ae WTI Een J Techno Trade i wincon k r E TER iS Lala Spaca Uatcipien UA Daka Ptyca aame OK Cancel Select one of 4 types of OPC DeltaV drivers OPC DeltaV real time values OPC DeltaV real time alarms OPC DeltaV historical values OPC DeltaV historical alarms from the Emerson folder in the Select data source type section Click on Configure button and the OPC driver configuration dialog box will be opened Select OPC Server OPC server secured access Main OPC Server Backup OPC Server l i Login admir Password ones Computer Name sSlocalhost Browse Network select Server Matrikon OPC Simulation 1 Test Connection Server requires single client connection Refresh Server List If the OPC server has secured password protected connection it will be possible to specify in the OPC server secured access
395. ms list by name using a name mask with wild characters NOTE If you need to configure the same driver more than once then after having configured it the first time you ll just need to click in the Select Data Source Type field on any other driver and then go back to the driver that you need to configure 315 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Analytical Driver Analytical driver of Dream Report is an internal module which is responsible for record of statistical data calculated by Dream Report to the database Each textual statistical object defined in the report such as Single data object Compound data object and Expression object can be considered by Dream Report as internal variables and their values can be recorded to the Dream Report database as values of any other data source To use this module 1 Open the Communication Configuration Wizard dialog window Communication Configuration Wizard wW eo ore Comfiquie Diner for Selected Source Detined Drivers Lisl fe ah n ag anaylica real line vaiues one ee F Dpalen hinlanca vale Driver Logical hame BB GreamRepert EB feb manual dives Add Energy B MVE ahime values i i BB Pioces H Simulation Drise W Pica 4 Wonderware BB Process Setpoint H I Aspertech Wi scans H Open communication protocols scans H Citect H Siemen 4 Eurotherm H Layer H Hizubishi H Emezan 44 Are Informatique H I Techno Trade tft ia i Data Source Description
396. n please refer to the Project Parameters section of this manual 152 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd The Show Result As section controls the display format for the value In the left combo box select a type of result output By default the selection is Default Calculation If this output type is selected the result of statistical calculation will be displayed in its native format There are 6 value display format options lf Show result as Barcode option is selected select a barcode type in the right combo box as displayed on a picture above Dream Report installs several types of barcodes so a user doesn t have to install anything in addition to the Dream Report Show result as Show result as Barcode Jof 4 Barcode r Advanced options lf Calculated as Duration in option is selected the result of the calculation will be displayed as a time period in seconds User can select preferred output format as shown below The result can be re used in other numeric calculations Show result as Calculated as Duration in HH MM S5 i HH MM SS Advanced options SP ee Hours Minutes Seconds lf Timestamp option is selected then the result will be displayed as a timestamp of the report object event logged NOTE a timestamp is the time at which an event is recorded by a computer not the time of the event itself The difference may be inconsequential the time at which an event is recorded by a timestamp e g entered
397. n please see the Report Output Format section of this manual Web reports format If the report has Web format defined the Report Formats column will contain WEB icon Web reports contain web pages with reports which have Web option enabled No history of those reports is displayed When user selects a report the report view frame will display Please wait while retrieving report information and meanwhile it will generate the report calculate all objects located on that report page and then display it in the report view frame Then user can work with this report according to its design For details please go to the Manual Data Entry section of this manual PDF Excel format lf the report has Excel report format defined the Report Formats column will contain PDF and Excel icons If the report has only PDF format only the PDF icon will be displayed lf the report has only Excel format only the Excel icon will be displayed NOTE In order to have direct access to PDF and Excel files in Web Portal users can create shortcuts htto localhost filereport aspx Repld 3 amp FormatlType 0 amp login admin amp pass admin WHERE Replid is an ID of the report from the Web Portal Welcome Page starting from 0 FormatType Formatl ype 0 for PDF format and FormatT ype 1 for Excel format login user name pass password as text Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Welcome Page Layout Dream Report Web Portal Welco
398. n the Dream Report Studio Otherwise this command button will be always disabled NOTE Please always select at least one user that will have Full Administrator Rights If no user or group has been given the right to have access to the User Definition window in the project then on exiting the User Management section the following message box will appear No user with the right to administrate project was defined Please define at least one user with an access to User Definition window Then you will have to go back to the Authorization section and select at least one user who will have access to the User Definition window You can assign different user rights by selecting one or several users and or groups from the List of Users and Groups and by checking appropriate check boxes with the corresponding access rights Check boxes in the List of Users and Groups are not related to user rights but are related only to access to the reports If no report is selected in the Report name list of the Project Reports section on the right then all check boxes in the User access rights list will be disabled If you select several users and or groups at the same time and check User access rights check boxes then those check boxes will be assigned to several users Also at the same time if you select one or several users and or groups and they already have access rights defined then only those access right check boxes will be checked that
399. n values started to change or until values are changing If this option is selected the edit box will appear where a user can enter the minimum change of value from until which ROC will be calculated Specific value This option sets a specific value so that the rate of change will start stop its calculation only when the item value will reach this value If this option is selected the edit box will appear where a user can enter the control value for start stop of ROC calculation Example If a user sets this option with a specific value of 30 then the rate of change before setpoint will start its calculation only when the item value for setpoint has reached value 30 and will calculate it until the start of the setpoint stability zone 245 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Setpoint stability zone is a time period where all values of all items defined for that setpoint are within the corridor of a setpoint value tolerance Dynamic values Almost all the parameters such as Setpoint value Upper Tolerance Rate of change value Lower Tolerance Specific value Min rate of change can be set as a static number e g 10 or can be set as a real time tag value For this a user can double click on the needed edit box and the item browse window will be opened Select the required item and then in the runtime when the report is generated the setpoint module will read the current real time value of the defined tag and use
400. n Data Systems Ltd Bar graph displays data in a bar chart The data can be either a data value a counter of logged values or a counter of logged alarms To add a bar chart to a report click the Bar Graph button on the Report Designer Studio Elements toolbar Draw a rectangle where you would like to place the chart in the report workspace and the Bar Graph definition dialog box will be opened Bar Graph Definition The upper combo box Chart Based On defines the kind of data that will be displayed in the chart You can select e Value to display a raw data item or a statistical value for a defined period e Counter of Recorded Values to display the number of times the selected data item was logged into the database and its value matched a specified value range e Alarm Count to display the number of alarms during a specified period of time which matched the selected alarm filters The Get Data From radio buttons specify the kind of data source for the chart Dream Report History or External History Server To create a new chart select a list of data items and a bar color for the data item in the chart enter a label for the legend if needed and click the Add button The data source and data item can be selected from the relevant combo boxes in the Select Data ltem group Apply correction factor for all item values enables adding simple expression to a bar graph If a user needs to display bar graph on item s wit
401. n be reused to build similar reports Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd A report template will save all static dynamic statistic and analytic objects within the report but also will include report settings and Excel report configuration If users will save an existing report as a template the overall report content will be saved as a template To save the current report as a template right click on the report in the report list and select menu Save as Report Template see pic below a Report Designer Studio List of Reports Energy Report examples OEE Performance and Main Production and Manufactur Report Settings Tag Dictionary Virtual Report Instances Apply Page Template Apply Report Template H H Simple tables a EB Step tables 5 Ei Charts Copy Report To Folder Wie Bars H Date and Time Save As Page bias i Delete Report You can also click on the command button Report Template on the Home ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar in the Report Designer Studio see pic below Home Connectivity Project Web HA Paste Object Cut Clipboard Quick Lau 9 mE Driver 33 Copy Obje f A f F Page Insert NOTE Users can also save the current report as a template by clicking on the ODS button in the upper left part of the Dream Report Designer Studio The report template file will be created with a
402. n image file jpg file format to use as a background picture in the report page template e want to adda logo or a picture option enables to add a picture to a report Button Select will open a standard Windows Open File dialog box where a user can select an image file jpg file format to add to the report page template When an image is inserted into a report it can be handled as a native Dream Report object It will be saved in the report layout file and will not require the original image picture file After adding an image it will be available to most of the object operations copy paste re size move etc e lf want to add page number option is selected then the page number will be automatically added to every page of the report 39 NY e want to add timestamp of report generation option enables to add to the report page template the timestamp of logged item values to be displayed using local time of the computer where Dream Report is running Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd You can also type the title for report page in the corresponding edit box NOTE Page template files are created with ptdr extension By default page template files are saved in the Templates folder within the Dream Report installation directory Click Next to go to the next step of project creation Click Back to go one step back to re configure or check project configuration Click Close to exit Project Wizard without any operation
403. n methodology which is adopted by Eurotherm as a standard When the Advanced Mean Kinetic Temperature function is selected a use has to click on Configure button and the following dialog window will be opened x Calculation parameters JH os 144 Precision 1 T E Use calculation algorythm By number of samples OBy number of periods intervals By defined periods intervals LI as i cu m F om In the Calculation parameters section a user has to enter constant parameters for the calculation and select the input temperature unit In the Use calculation algorithm section a user has to specify which data will be selected for the calculation and analysis 132 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd 1 If the By number of samples option is selected then a user will have to enter the number of samples to take for calculation into the edit box below The number of samples has to be only non zero and positive 2 If the By number of periods option is selected then a user will have to enter the number of equal periods into the edit box below Then all the entire period defined in the object will be divided into that entered number of equal parts and the calculation will be done accordingly The number of periods has to be only non zero and positive 3 If the By defined periods option is selected then the edit box below will be replaced by the time picker control and a
404. n the folder with your web virtual directories folder Web Folder gt Default web site 3 Add a new virtual directory which is pointing to your Dream Report lt project folder gt Web directory You can use any logical name for that virtual directory 4 Add a sub folder named files to your new virtual directory This sub folder must point to your Dream Report lt project folder gt Reports directory Since the virtual directory and its sub folder are created it will be used by Dream Report web portal afterwards and there is no need to re do this configuration in the future for the same Dream Report project NOTE To create virtual folders your windows user has to be full administrator on that computer Manual IIS Configuration Manual configuration of the Internet Information Services IIS and the list of required components Introduction Before doing installation of Dream Report with web portal on Windows Vista or on Windows 7 a user has to perform the certain set of manual actions which is described below hereinafter Those actions are required only once during the installation and don t have to be repeated when running a project Please do those actions in order to ensure proper functionality of the Dream Report Web portal Steps to follow 1 User must login as System Administrator 2 Ensure that your computer where you are installing Dream Report has an installation of Net Framework version 3 5 or newer here is the link
405. n the new predefined Modbus profile will be created Configuring Modbus Protocol Configuration If you have selected a predefined Modbus profile or defined tags manually please configure the communication to your Modbus device Protocol type combo box contains available protocols Modbus and JBus Please select which communication protocol will be used Communication type combo box enables users to specify the way how to connect to a Modbus device There are two options available e TCP IP Default If this option is selected enter your Modbus device IP address or host name into the Address edit box The TCP IP port number and the Modbus unit ID address which can be 1 to 255 have to be specified in the Port Unit ID edit box The Subscribe parameter determines how often the driver will sample Modbus device for new values If any data points are defined to be sampled in unsolicited mode which is not supported by Modbus protocol then this driver will periodically scan Modbus device with the period defined in the Subscribe edit box and in this way it will emulate unsolicited way of communication to a Modbus device please see the picture above Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd e Serial If a user selects this communication type then the driver configuration window will have the following display Modbus diver configuration yd Load predefined profile eurothern 0316 YO pkg Current working profile eurotherm 0316 V
406. nal History Server please see the pic above 372 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd lf Select Data Source from another Combo box option is selected then the Display data from combo box will contain the list of web combo box objects defined in that report please see the pic below Display Data from Show Tag List 7 Mult selection Data Configuration Select Date Source below Select Data Source from another Combe box Display Data from Production sall The Show Tag List combo box will be a drop down where users will be able to select one or multiple tags in one selection The Show Tag List combo box in a web report will have no default selection If a report is generated from Web and this report has the Show Tag List combo box with no selection then all reports will be generated by default using tags originally defined in all report objects But if report is generated and the Show Tag List combo box has some tags selected then the report will be generated for the selected tags using the tag replacement mechanism used in Report Pre processor e Show Report Instances List display If this option is selected then in real time it will be filled with the list of report instances defined for that report e Show Batch Definitions display If this option is selected the combo box in a web report will be filled with a list of batch definition names defined in the project Report may have m
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408. nce e On Change option will enable logging only on a value 0r Change a update if the value is different from the previous one please see the picture below Record Mode iis Fas 7 Record Mode Tolerance rom bin 01 00 00 21 00 00 On Change gt r Day Settings Elmon Flus lwed Thu lpr Fls Fls Add ba coches Remove From To Sune thie leasing medie Suitcned on thenieeris ableae m_m define tolerance in the corresponding Tolerance edit box The value entered in this edit box will define how many units of value should be changed in order to log a new value to the database and which value change Rocard Condition should be ignored ok _Cancel_ Any On Update option will enable logging when any value update is received from the data source whether or not the new value is different from the previous one please see the picture below Record Mode Record Made On Update hi Every option will record the item value at the defined rate whether or not the value has changed The rate can be defined in hours minutes seconds please see the picture below Record Made Record Mode Eyer 07 10 04 96 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd e On item Value Change option will record item values each time the value of a control item changes It works as follows 1 You can define an item from the same data source that this group will log data from as displayed on the picture below
409. nd Time and it is split in two different cells then in order to get the Timestamp of the single data values you should specify 2 different locations for Date and Time e Option 2 If in the Excel file only one cell represents both Date and Time then you will have to select only the Date cell and keep the Time cell blank e Option 3 If in the Excel file such data time fields do not exist then in order to record the values into the Dream Report database the Excel file modify time will be taken as a timestamp EDI Tags Browse If you want to use any of EDI tags in reports and try to select a tag from the report the EDI browser will access the selected Excel file or group of files in the selected folder read all tag names and display them in the list If during report design you will modify Excel file and add some tags EDI will have to close and open studio again and the tag browse will be renewed NOTE If you need to configure the same driver more than once then after having configured it the first time you ll just need to click in the Select Data Source Type field on any other driver and then go back to the driver that you need to configure 306 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd OPC Drivers Dream Report has the OPC drivers set which includes e OPC DA Data Access e OPC AE Alarm and Event and e OPC HDA History Data Access drivers OPC DA driver supports OPC 1 0 and OPC 2 0 standards OPC HDA
410. ndicator Configuration Custom Indicator This indicator will display how much energy was spent to heat cool 1 m2 for 1C degree Therefore to calculate this indice select a tag for energy consumption select a tag for a temperature that has a possibility to enter an area m2 AS soon as a user selects this type the following dialog window will appear Definition Dialog s Data Object temp hi The combo box in this dialog box will contain the list of Single Data Objects Compound and Expression objects already existing in that report Select one of the existing objects and its result will be taken for the indicator Appearance lf a user will click on the Appearance float bar the following Appearance dialog window will be opened lad ator obyect deiraboun Date Doirdir All Appearance configuration is saved separately per 3 Arpemsence one Cc boctencdty gt t he each indicator definition oa Seat rer 7ER Grade definition is done in the Grade definition on A section User will add limits High Low define grade color and add segment to the list By default all added grades will get alphabetic enumerated Grade letter A B C D etc lf a user wishes to replace letter label by another one he can double click in the list control and edit the grade label e g like it works in item or alarm Siiect nae i table for table column caption j aiiis Aion Sie Sot Agcerieg Sot Descersieg Add Oebete Show obve
411. nding topics of the Web Elements section of this manual NOTE By clicking on the DR Main Button in the Dream Report Designer Studio users can also perform the following operations with projects and reports such as create a new project open any existing project save the current project save reports as templates save report pages as templates print reports 106 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd e exit the Studio with the current project opened please see the picture below Projects Opened Recenth New Report i dvd 1 Production drpj Ti a SPER Prent 2 C ODS energy energy drpj Seen 3 Production _Users drpj 4 C ODS Demo Demo drpj AY Save Project As P 107 N Creating New Report Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd To create a new report right click on the report tree in the Report Designer Studio and select New Report from the context menu Report Designer Studio List of Reports E Project Reports List Virtual Report Instances Apply Page Template Apply Report Template Save As Page Template Save As Report Template Copy Report To Folder Delete Report When the new report is created you can add objects and design your report template You can use an existing page template to design your static page layout header footer background etc You can use an existing report template to add statistica
412. ned in an archive import definition has passed the following operations will be performed e AIE will check in the Dream Report database the last value and timestamp available with the data imported from that Archive import definition If no data is available AIE will know that it s the first import and all data available at external server will be imported into the Dream Report database e f AIE detects that some data is available then it will import all data available in the external server Starting from the timestamp of the last value available in the Dream Report database and until the current import time So this way if during any importing session the connection to the external server was not available the data will not be lost They will be automatically imported during the next session Using Archive Imported data in reports When user has added one or several archive import definitions then when selecting a list or real time data source in every statistical objects the list of available data sources will contain both the real time data source and the list of archive import names When a user selects an Archive Import definition as a data source then browse of data items will display the list of all data items selected for that archive import Or if Archive Import definition has mport all items enabled then the list of all items available at the external data source will be displayed in the item browse window NOTE Runtim
413. neneessaes 168 21g ane ee E A ee 95 L PC Ae eta sa oseoe aeecteacacnacteseceneen act eace ed actewacebenseaaed 77 Lan U E ee EEE E neces 53 Language SCICCTION scsceeeeecccsesnsssaaeeesssssseeeeees 53 EEEE 1 AA AE I AN E E EI EE 164 EAST VAIE ie ea 129 u V PENON oeei ES 45 U OV SE ea R EE 45 Limit report files StOFAGE cccceecccenseneesennenessenseneens 66 Line Chart Appearance 11sscccccsssssssesecesssanessseeesaes 202 LOCA Databas eiee ETA 50 OCA UNO eeri a r a eaa 45 LOG Alarme On EVENT easan 103 LOG On EYON cst none pansi a i e 99 LOQ OUO gg 6 ae ee en E 99 Log values IN LANG cenisicxcexipanvcenniiesxdanpavkiensrinsaentpanie 99 Logged value countet 1ccccccccnsesssseseeennsaessesesenens 129 L ggOG VAVE oeer 168 LOO E e E O 92 Logger Studio OVESIViICW ssscccccccsssssssaseesssssseeeesees 90 Logging Schedule isssicsiszisieisiciodipran as 97 102 Logout on user inactivity wiicecsassieicvanvacedianievievansbeesnasins 48 Logout on user inactivity after ccccesceseseecseseeeneneeess 48 M MIGO NANE ssai a aA R aa 87 IRIS EN E E VE E E E T EE E ET 87 Mai Manager soiree E 81 Index Mail server login informatiOn 22 cccccccesseeseeenroees 81 Manual Configuration Of the IIS ccccccsssseeseeeeeneanees 361 Manual DRA ENUY serrie 193 M EUY ii e E EE 193 Manual Values Editor icexecsrniontuncicainennieneacmeudsocnannen 252 T e E E ten eter inee ee 129 MOAI sirs r
414. ning project to visualize in details any existing report its instances from the entire project and also to generate any report its instances on user demand in real time 355 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Detail Page has the following layout Cream Regent Portal Penge Py HOS Inrbeniap TETE TE PERN Eragi sh al gt ar B Pie Graphe PIE Graphs gommetrj TI OF 97_13 08 Eapd F a 2h ma LT D Fk J AE Reports List ae sa erence List of Report p Aaii Dream Report re rr files Desrachr zv irga aprir oh ct ry a Dotto Thai PIE Grani T Jbii ii aes a l i EFTE _Gragks pm rarabed_ i B 0 hlar m o O7 07 IIIA 0 4 50 Tai te N O i oa EE re Graph li 2 aar Graph diii ri Ya chara 1 p H Acie State tice Table L Fj i Prargy Pihriarmy ror Te Hapa li pars aatar mrn teera s r spar M a i aji ij mma R e E ry 1 S28 art ie ted ke a ter Web Portal Detail Page displays the following data e Reports List the left part of the detail page presents all reports with their instances and report format types defined in the project User can view any generated report without any need to go back to the Welcome Page e Report Information the top central part of the detail page presents the general report information the selected report report instance name the generated report filename mask the description of the report if defined and the timestamp of report generation e New S
415. nk Actio Butto Draw a rectangle in the workspace where the output data will be displayed The following Combo Box Configuration dialog box will be opened FA Object name Defaut Value Assign Selechon to Tag Production 1 Ftobject1 Real Time tem HDA Item Daia Source Display Data from OOBC data ae en eT ees tem Name La Batch I0 8atch_ ID Send Result Ta Show Data Source List n Show Tag List Show Report Instances List Show Batch De Snitions Show Batch IDs List Timestamp Cate Tine Flows _daits_time_1 Flow_data_tme_t J This Combo Box is Obligatory Wisible in PDF Add Def value lt Not specified gt ox i cane Object Name must be a unique logical name which will be used in further work with that object within the project 220 D Default Value enables to set value which will be displayed as default in the Combo Box object in WEB reports in Dream Report Web Portal Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Data Display Configuration The Display Data from combo box has 9 source types of data to display Manual values SQL query Tag values List of users Show Data Source List Show Tag List Show Report Instances List Show Batch Definitions and Show Batch IDs List Manual values data display In the Data Configuration section user has to specify manually a set of values text or numeric separated by comma or or semi column
416. ns by a specified one throughout all the objects within that report 115 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd To search or replace a specific data item by another one select Data source and item option in the Search amp Replace group box on the top of the window Search and Replace si User can select which type of statistical reporting objects will be affected by that data item search replacements There are 2 options e Search in all objects the data item search replacement will be done in all statistical objects of that report e Search only in selected object type the combo box with the list of all available object types will appear just below that radio button User will be able to select the desired object type and then data item search replacement will affect only the object type selected Search and Replace s Search and Replace Data source and item O Time definition O Search in all objects Search only in selected object type Single Data e Then in the section Select Data Item to be searched select data item to be searched lf a user needs to search for a statistical object which is defined on that data item he will have to click on Search button The first found object which has specified that data item defined will be selected in the Report Designer studio and the window focus will be put on that object If there are several objects which have that data item specified and a user need
417. nss 164 Access to user definition sscccccsseseeccnaesesecnaneeseesaaes 57 Account expires On seosnensnnennnnnsenronnnnsnnronnenrnnrennenne 57 Vate o OP E E 271 16 EETA TEE EN eet nee AE E EA EE 73 Add DALE TNC sacecarnncsinaninaniccnsmenneavinsapesanduiwesnnsmbacinnss 71 Add Items sarericaceseseoscttecat ccna ane eutien ecules 95 168 Add ltems to GOD aces snceossceccedaveeccenssmesnecaamenceasseaseea 95 Add New FAC case shitsccratudaseeaincducriuceiacuauilauenatetaeeauce 110 Add New Text ODJOCH ssscsssssseeeeeeccecssnnsneaeeeesees 115 AGI PICU eee ee nen ne ona Re et eee oe 114 PO L EPE EEE TE E E T A 193 Add template to existing report objects 0001 202 236 Adding Image PICK Cin scccannarsansnieninan see rinianieninonunenne 114 110 6 ce ao a ee eR ee en eae ne 310 Adobe Acrobat Reader sscccccsssescccssessecnsansesensanaes 8 Adobe flash PIAYV EL cccccccnsssecceecensnaessseesenssaessesesenses 8 Advanced Mean Kinetic Temperature 110cc000c00 129 Advanced PDF Security sccctecccssisccsinnecenciehends tienen 77 89 Advanced SQL COndlition ccccccccccceesessssssseneeeeees 161 Advanced Visualization 1 ccccccccsveeccsnseecsneeetsnesenenes 148 after report generation vnsisivierscccrnuninencmtinieatiunvenncenaeens 87 Alarm COunter sccicscceecetoactee sen detin bee itcnd acbeid olemeecoegee 129 Alarm Filter Manager svcccsasninonniinonodvainbecanminnseaeadanscns 157 Alarm Group D
418. nt batch means batch ID which is being processed at present i e at the time of the report generation it has a valid start time and no end time yet Absolute batch ID will enable user to enter any specific absolute batch ID and their start and end time will be considered as the time period for that statistical object Golden batch will use start and end time of the golden batch ID defined in the selected batch definition in the batch configuration dialog window The Absolute batch ID and the Golden batch options are similar The difference between them is that the Golden batch is defined once per reporting project Then since a user has defined the Golden batch ID once in the batch definition window then it will be used for all the reporting objects throughout the entire project If a user changes it it will be automatically applied to all reporting objects as well The Absolute batch ID is applied to one specific reporting object and will not affect any other objects If a user wants to modify the Absolute batch ID he will have to go through every reporting object where the absolute batch ID is used and to change each of them 38 D Example Last 2 batches will mean 2 last batches which have been completed at the time of generation but not including the one which is in process now The current 2 batches will mean the last 2 batches including the one which is in process now Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Click Next to go
419. nths 7 0200 00 The Search Time Period section has 2 radio button options e All time periods the time period to search will have no effect the specified time period to replace by will be applied to all the objects from the selected object type e Specific time periods the time period replacement will be applied only to those statistical reporting objects which have actual time period definition the same as to be searched for and which type is the same as selected in the Object type combo box lf a user needs to replace any specified time period data item in the statistical objects in that report he will have to select time period defined to replace with in the Replace by time period section below Then click on Replace All button and all the statistical objects which use specified time period defined will replace this specified time period inside their definition by the time period definition selected to be replaced by For details on how to define time please see Time Period Definition section of this manual Search and Replace in the selected objects If a user needs to search or replace some data not only in the entire report but also in its part i e if only some piece of data needs to be modified then he should do the following e Select the group of objects where the data should be modified and press CTRL F hot key or select from the content menu the Search and Replace option When the mouse courser is loc
420. nything in the report s in the project without changing stopping data logging please select Reload reports option lf a user wants to shut down a project in a runtime service then he should select the Close project option in a dropdown menu of the Reload button Button Generate has a drop down menu with 3 entries PDF Excel and PDF and Excel PDF Excel and PDF and Excel entries mean which report or instance format will be generated The Generate button will generate the selected report However this will not cancel normal scheduled report generation i e on demand generation is done outside the scheduling framework and will have no impact on it The Dynamic Generation button enables to open Dynamic Report Generator window for dynamic report generation NOTE In the previous versions of Dream Report 3 43 user could enable or disable report generation on event or on schedule directly from the Runtime Engine by using the Activate column of the list control In the new completely redesigned Runtime Manager in order to disable automatic report generation either on event or by schedule user will have to go to the corresponding dialog boxes Report Time Definition or and Generate Report on Event of the Report Settings section in the Dream Report Designer Studio Button Open has a drop down menu with 3 entries PDF Excel and PDF and Excel Each entry here
421. o UHH SQL database configuration window will be opened please see the picture below Connection to UHH SOl database X Select location of SQL Server with UHH database Connect using DSN 1 Local SOL Server database Remote SOL Server database Testconmect Batch monitor parameters Value for start batch event 0 Value for end batch event Checkup frequency period sec T Select location of SQL Server with UHH database section on the top of this dialog window defines which connection type will be used using DSN Connect using DSN or connecting to the SQL Server database either locally Local SQL Server database or remotely Remote SQL Server database If Connect using DSN radio button is selected please see the picture above then when user clicks on the browse button the DSN Manager window will be opened where user will be able to pick up or configure the DSN needed For details please see the DSN Manager section of this manual 338 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd If either Local SQL Server database or Remote SQL Server database radio button is selected user will need to configure the SQL Server database parameters and details please see the picture below Connection to UHH SOL database x Select location of SQL Server with UHH database Connect using OSM Local SOL Server database Remote SOL Server database local Logan Password SOL Server database connect
422. o the backup server If connection to the backup server has succeeded it will use the backup server as the data server until communication with the main server in re connection thread As soon as re connection with the main server is established the connection to the backup server will be immediately closed and connection to the main server will be used for communication If there s communication error with the main server and connection with the backup server can t be established then the driver will try to re establish connection with both servers As soon as any of the connections has succeeded it will be taken and used for communication In that case if connection to the main server succeeded first the driver will continue to work in a normal way If communication to the backup server succeeded first then it will be taken for communication and the parallel thread to re connect to the main server will be running in parallel NOTE During installation of Dream Report additional OPC component will be installed OPC Core Component Redistributable 2 20 from OPC Foundation it s supposed to repair all possible problems in OPC servers registrations and repair Windows OPC component installation 309 NY OPC DeltaV Drivers Dream Report has the OPC DeltaV drivers set which includes e OPC DeltaV real time values e OPC DeltaV real time alarms e OPC DeltaV historical values e OPC DeltaV historical alarms Dream Report Ocean Data Syste
423. ocal runtime manager will check the connection to the main station Functionality If the check box This node is working in a hotbackup mode is checked then when starting the runtime manager it will try to connect to the runtime manager on the PC which is specified as the main node If connection check has succeeded then the backup node will work in a standby mode It will not record data into a database and will not generate reports but will only periodically check connection with the main station every checkup rate 54 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Localization The Localization tab enables users to set the language of the interface i e all dialog boxes and menus configure date time week and display settings for the report objects To open Localization dialog window click on the command button Localization on the Project ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar either in the Dream Report Logger Studio or Dream Report Designer Studio menu see pic below o FPP Home Connectivity Project Web Elements Tools Runtime E UCZ BY iB i Ve fe General Data Base Web Set Log Hotbackug Localization Tag Project Parameters Edit project Version Definition configuration Paths File configuratio Dictionary Definition users control Project Settings User Management Language Selection This dialog box enables a user to select the current language of the Dream Report studio interface dialog boxes
424. of the full data value set e Linear Regression will display a chart object as a linear model where data items are modeled using linear functions and their model parameters are estimated from the data values set e Power Regression will display in curved lines in a chart object the data sets which compare measurements that change at a specific rate The mathematical algorithm will analyze entered values in order to define a and b coefficients so that when the curved line matching the appropriate power regression function y a x4b will be added this line will display item values with the highest level of data approximation e lf auser selects the statistical function Setpoint Analysis then the button will appear next to the combo box with the statistical function which a user has to click and select setpoints that he would like to analyze and display on the chart Then in the same window of the setpoint selection user has to select which data items should be displayed on a chart There are the following options available 1 All items The chart will display all items defined for the selected setpoint 2 Fastest entry item The chart will display only one item of those defined in the selected setpoint which was the first to enter the stability zone of the setpoint 3 Slowest entry item The chart will display only one item of those defined in the selected setpoint which was the last to enter the stability zone of the setpoint
425. of the selected item s will be re calculated applying correction factor and then the item table will display re calculated data For more details please refer to the Correction Factor section ADF to be used enables to select an aggregated data filter ADF to be used combo box will contain all ADF definitions configured in the project The default string will be Not Used i e no filter ADF is applied For details on ADF definition configuration please go to the Aggregated Data Filter section of this manual 168 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd In the Value Range filter section specify the range of values you wish to include in your table For example you can create a table only for a critical value range and see only those values The value filter accepts negative and floating point values but it only Supports numeric values and not strings If you use an Item Table to display string item values the value filter will be ignored The Item table is able to display 2 kinds of data e Logged Value raw data the definition data will be extracted from history and displayed exactly as it is according to e Moving Average ach raw data array will be automatically recalculated into a moving average array when each array element is an average of all previous array members including itself In case of Moving Average the value filter will be ignored Time Definition which defines the period for statistical c
426. oject are saved and can be managed from one place for details please see the DSN Manager section of this manual Then enter the SQL Query data for more details please see Single Data Object or SOL Table section In the Select Data Object combo box you can only select data objects from the preset list of the following 4 objects available Batch ID Report start time Report end time and Input parameter from file If a user adds any of those objects to the SQL query or stored procedure statement by clicking Add button then when launching before report generation it will replace those dynamic objects by the corresponding real value All values for Batch ID Report start time Report Settings Project Reports List Alarm Tables AuAonmatc Statistica Tat Bacteriological Report Sa Graphe Batch info Report Batch Trend Charts Osta Tables Demo Batch Report Energy Effoency Repor Equipment avadabdity re Puoride Monthly Report GW Monthly Operating F Inckators Monthly Operating Repo Me Graphs Report Energy Report Maintenance Report Production Report Refinery Report Water Setpont Ans yas Singe objects SQL Tables Step Tades Tur bidty Report Web Trend Wikigets OK Cancel General Report Name Format Repat Time Definition Generate Repot On Evert Report File Format Repon Preprocessor ODOC Data Source access Logn Password Enter SQL Query Select Dats Object Batch I
427. olumn Ack Date Column Ack Time Column End Date Column End Time Column Description Column Priority Column NOTES e The Start Time and Description columns are mandatory other columns can be left empty if any of those parameters doesn t exist in CSV Text files structure e Some CSV Text files include two separate columns for Date and Time If it is not the case please keep the Time column empty Please see an example of CSV Text Alarm driver configuration below Example 1 Configuration of CSV files for CSV Alarms driver CSV Text Alarm Client Configuration Alam File s Location Select Folder to locate Alarm File s C Documents and Settings Administrators Desktopi CS l Specify Static File Name s names separeted by foe example f1 f2 f3 File Extension lesy Delete File After Processing oS Start Date Column Start Tene Column Timestamp Checkup Rate 60 Ack Date Column Ack Time Column l i Ack_Time Data Delimiter End Date Column End Time Column Tet Quaihe End_Time Timestamp Foma Select Timestamp Format Description Column i t Custom v Alarm_text Specty Custom Format Priority Cohumnn end edi Zy ZH ZM Priority JUTC Time in Use Done 300 NY Dream Report 2 Alarms extracted from CSV files E Fie Edt Fomet View Help Timestamp End_Time Ack _T ime Priority amp larmtext 1 1 06 7 00 171 06 8 00 1 1 06 Fis0 Givalves open 1 1 06 8 00 1
428. ombo box data will be refreshed 374 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd In the Timestamp section user can define timestamp Date and Time for the defined entered values If check box This combo box is obligatory is checked then selecting a value from this combo box is required for successful report validation If a user will not select any value he will not be able to complete the report If this check box is checked then a red mark will be displayed to the left from the combo box and as soon as a user selects any value from the combo box the will change its color to green If check box Add Default Value lt Not specified gt is checked then the combo box will be filled with all values according to its data configuration and one more entry lt Not specified gt will be entered in addition The Visible in PDF option controls whether this Combo Box object will be displayed in the generated PDF report or not Action Button Action Button is a dynamic interactive object which enables users to do a pre defined action and is available ONLY in WEB reports please also see Manual Data Entry section To add this object click on the command button Action Button on the Web Elements ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar in the Dream Report Designer Studio menu see pic below Home Connectivity Project Web Elements Add a button to the report and the following Action Button Configuration dia
429. on As soon as this configuration has been done Dream Report web portal will automatically contain all designed reports When user logs into the web portal only the allowed list of reports will be displayed and user can open any of them Web Elements Manual Data Entry Functions enable users to add web elements i e dynamic interactive objects which will be available ONLY in web report formats and will enable users to interact with different report data enter values select values from combo boxes push a button with pre defined operation etc Web elements will be available only when Web option is enabled for the current report for details please see the Report Output Format section of this manual Configuration and functionality of web elements for WEB reports is described in details in the following sections Timestamp Picker Hyperlink Combo Box Action Button 360 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd IIS Configuration on Windows Vista When using Dream Report on Windows Vista certain manual configuration of the IIS Internet Information Services as described below has to be done This configuration is required only once when your project is ready and web portal has to be used The following configuration steps have to be done 1 Open IIS Internet Information Services management window It can be opened using windows menu Start gt Control panel gt Administrative tools gt Internet Information Services 2 Ope
430. on Energy Pote Tat indicator Eco CO2 indicator Water indicator Ca aaa Custom indicator When a user has selected the required indicator type he can then configure it The preset indicator types and the custom one wil have different configuration dialog boxes please see the corresponding sections below Energy Eco Water indicators configuration Energy Indicator will disolay how much energy was spent per m2 per year Therefore to calculate this indice select an existing statistical object for energy consumption select a time period which is referenced to that object and has a possibility to enter the area in m2 or ft2 The selected statistical object value will be divided by area and then interpolated for 1 year according to the associated period e g if the associated period is 1 year the result will be multiplied by 12 Eco Indicator This indicator will display how much CO2 was emitted per m2 per year Therefore to calculate this indice select an existing statistical object which calculates CO2 emission select a time period which is referenced to that object and has a possibility to enter the area in m2 or ft2 The selected statistical object value will be divided by area and then interpolated for 1 year according to the associated period e g if the associated period is 1 year the result will be multiplied by 12 Water Indicator This indicator will display how much water was spent per m2 for per 1 y
431. on specify the location of all data components needed to process the batch information e Inthe Select Table combo box select a table which contains batch information batch ID start time and end time e Inthe Field with Batch ID combo box select a table column which contains batch IDs e Inthe Field with Batch Start Time and Field with Batch End Time combo boxes select the table columns which contain the batch start time and end time 4 If the table where batch information is stored doesn t include Batch Start Time and Batch End Time columns select the Defined by data item option This option will require only Batch ID column where Batch ID will be recorded periodically In the Data Item for Batch ID section select data source and data item containing batch ID Then click OK and batch definition will be completed NOTE Batch process must be continuous and there will be no time interval between consequent batches Batch Start Time will correspond to the Timestamp of the first value of the defined batch as explained in the formula below Batch_Start_Time Batch_N Timestamp_ of_First_Value Batch_N where Batch_N is ID of the defined batch Batch End Time will correspond to the timestamp of the first value of the next batch with the difference of 1 second as explained in the formula below Batch_End_Time Batch_N Timestamp_of_First_Value Batch_N 1 1s where Batch_N is ID of the defined batch and Batch_N 1 is ID of the next batch
432. on Condition check box is checked then the values of items from the entire group will be logged only if a pre defined condition is true If group logging scheduler is defined that data will be logged only when the logging period is active and the event is TRUE If a group has no schedule defined then data will be logged when the condition is TRUE When the check box Enable Record on Condition is enabled users can define the record condition 1 A data source can be selected from the source Add item group x list in the upper combo box The lower combo box will have a complete list of data items from General the selected source The user will have to select Recesd A f ecard Hate a source and a data item for the condition Record Conditions expression 2 After the item name is selected select a n l Enable Record on Condition condition sign from the appropriate combo box and a condition value in the edit box The value Data Source can be a floating point number using a as the Ana decimal separator item Name Data from that group will be logged only when the defined Energy reportternpd gt 0 condition is true When the condition is false no data from any item within this group will be logged Log values in the range defines a value filter for data logging The check box Log out of range defines how values which are out of a defined range will be recorded Log values in the range
433. on attributes SOL Server iniarce name Database mame UhhDaiaSiorage Test commeact Batch monitor parame ters Value for start batch event D value for end batch event Checkup frequency period sec z can Batch monitor parameters section defines which value will be assigned to a selected data point when a new batch will be started Value for start batch event and which value will be assigned to that data point when the actual running batch will be ended Value for end batch event Checkup frequency period parameter defines how often the driver will check UHH database for batch events The default value is 30 seconds i e by default every 30 seconds this driver will open connection to the UHH database and check for start stop batch events NOTE In order to make automatic batch report generation from UHH database user has to 1 Add Eurotherm UHH DB batch monitor driver to the project 2 Create a batch definition based on that driver item based external data source select any data item from required area and dataset 3 Go to report settings gt Generate on event section and select any data item from the same area and dataset which was used for the batch definition and assign the required value according to the required event type end of a batch or start of a new batch 339 NY PcVue Communication Drivers Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd PcVue driver of Dream Report enables you to connect to PCVue SCADA
434. on on the horizontal toolbar either in the Dream Report Logger Studio or Dream Report Designer Studio menu see pic below _ Home File configuration Project Settings Connectivity Project Web Elements Tools sf eB Set Log Hotbackup Localization Dictionary Runtime lo E fy Tag Project Parameters Definition Edit project Version users control User Management Default Database MS Access MS SQL Server If this option is selected the project database will be created automatically in the project database folder defined in the Project Settings dialog box No user configuration is needed The database will be created and maintained automatically NOTE It is highly recommended not to use the MS Access for the real projects installing at least SQL Server 2008 Express edition as minimum required Please note that SQL Server Express Edition is commercially free however as a free tool it is also limited in terms of performance Custom database using DSN This option enables users to connect to any predefined custom database using the ODBC interface If this radio button is enabled user will have either to select an existing DSN or add a new DSN definition New DSN definition will be created using the standard Windows wizard window which will be opened as soon as user clicks on Add button After the DSN selection user will have to specify DSN login and password and click on Test connection button
435. onfigure manual entry parameters w Manual parameter definition Hame Type Flow meter 1 Analog ii rarioa Alow meter Ifar plant 1 F Mn Min Max Flow meter i Analog Q 200 Flow meter 2 Boolean E 200 Flow meter 3 Text 0 200 Parameters 3 Import Export cancel 317 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Define tags for the selected data source Every manual tag must have its Name and Type Optional information can be also added in the Description box any free text or for the data validation criteria Min and Max values The defined manual tag can be one of three types available Analog default selection Boolean and Text NOTE The data validation criteria input is available only for the Analog type tags If other type is selected validation criteria input controls will be hidden Values for both Min and Max for the validation criteria are expected as integer or float numbers They will be saved and displayed as a double format number If Min or Max value edit boxes remain empty the corresponding Min or Max double value will be considered The amount of manual tags defined in the Manual Entry Parameters configuration window will be displayed in the Parameters section below the manual tags list If you click Export button the standard Windows Save As window will be opened where you can select location and name for the list export file A list export file format is csv with
436. ons for future use and optionally disable data recording while doing the maintenance of the site where Dream Report project is running in order to avoid wrong data to be recorded into the Dream Report database 98 NY Alarm Group Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Alarm Group Definition The Dream Report logger enables a user to split different alarms by groups according to their source and priority range and define separate logging conditions for each alarm group Click on the command button Add alarm group on the Connectivity ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar in the Dream Report Logger Studio menu see pic below Home Connectivity Project Web Element 6 bt Di s Driver Batch Dbatch Add item fAdd alarm Configuration definition Configuration group Connectivity configuration l The Alarm Group Definition dialog box will be opened see pic below If no alarm group has already been created you can open the Dream Report Logger Studio and right click on Add alarm group in the Alarms section left bottom part of the Logger studio If any alarm group has already been created and you want to create a new alarm group you can also open the Logger studio and right click in the Alarms section left bottom part of the Logger studio Duplicate Group Modify Alarm Delete Group To edit an existing group select Modify Alarm To duplicate an existing group s
437. opy subfolder CSVCFG from lt Program Files gt ODS Dream Report System directory This directory includes configuration XML files that were defined in project 3 Ensure that the location of the CSV Text files is the same as it has been defined on the computer where the project has been developed 302 NY Excel Data Import Driver Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Dream Report includes Excel Data Import EDI driver which enables to periodically access specific Excel file s or check for specific folder s optionally including subfolders and import all new data EDI driver will permanently run with Dream Report and look after specific Excel file or all files in a specific folder optionally including subfolders As soon as the file modify time has changed or new files have appeared in the folder EDI driver will access that file or the newly created files read data according to its configuration and log that data into the standard Dream Report database In order to import data from Excel you need to define logging group from EDI source with record rate On Update EDI Driver Compatibility EDI driver is compliant with the following MS Excel versions e MS Excel 2000 e MS Excel 2003 e MS Excel 2007 e MS Excel 2010 MS Excel is not required to be installed on the PC where EDI driver will work EDI driver includes a special integrated library to access MS Excel files without MS Excel software itself EDI Driver Configu
438. ormat is configured in Report Settings gt Report name format The timestamp for the step tables is configured in the Step table dialog window Week Settings Week Settings section has 2 combo boxes e First day of week where you can select the day of the week which will be considered as a week start day for weekly reports By default selection is Monday e First week of the year where you can define the mechanism of how weeks enumeration will work Select one of the three options Starts on 1 Jan First 4 day week and First full week This setting will define the algorithm how to define a week number for display in the report and filenames Click on Apply or OK The new week settings will be applied automatically Common Visualization Settings This group box allows users to do advanced formatting of displayed results in all report objects e Display N A when there is no value This parameter defines what will be displayed in the report when there is no value to be displayed in this report By default it is N A i e Not Available User can put there any string including blank space which will be displayed in the report when there s no result available e Use decimal separator like this This parameter defines which symbol will be used as a decimal separator that separates the whole part of a number from its decimal part There are two choices available a dot and a comma e Display big n
439. ort page where the line should start Then move mouse to the point where the line segment should end click and release the mouse button Then move the mouse again another line will be drawn from the end point of the previous one To complete the multi line right click the mouse button To edit the line properties click on the line and select a property from the toolbar The following line properties can be edited color width style All these properties are accessible from the same toolbar toolbar on the picture above see the marked area Circle Click on the Circle button on the toolbar Then click the left mouse button on the report page where the center of the circle will be Move the mouse to expand the radius of the circle and release the mouse button when the circle is the correct size To edit its line properties click on the circle The following line properties can be edited color width border line style and background color All these properties are accessible from the same toolbar toolbar on the picture above see the marked area Ellipse Click on the Ellipse button on the toolbar Then click the left mouse button on the report page where one corner of the ellipse will be Move the mouse to expand the ellipse and release the mouse button when the ellipse is the correct size To edit its line properties click on the ellipse The following line properties can be edited color width border line style and background color All thes
440. ort with Parameters http www dreamreport net mr If Set URL to open web hyperlink option is selected user MUST ENTER A WEB PAGE ADDRESS http and then after clicking on that hyperlink a new web page will be opened navigated to a specified hyperlink please see the pic above If Select Report to be loaded option is selected the dialog will display a combo box with the list of all reports available for that user and he she will be able to select which form will be opened upon clicking on that hyperlink please see the pic below 366 NY Hyperlink Configuration Ed Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Hyperlink Task options Set URL to open web hyperlink Select Report to be loaded Set Report with Parameters Production Report z If Set Report with Parameters option is selected user will have to click on the Configure button in order to enable internal hyperlink for the project report please see the pic below intema Hyperlink Parameters Configuration Dialog x Y Enable Hyper Link Production _Report Fass parameters information Set Parameter Select Parameter Data Source Configuration n Cycle 2 Feobject Hyperlink Task options SetURL to open web hyperlirik Delete Select Report to be loaded l Paramete Hame Parameter name Cyde 2 Siring By default this option will be disabled In the Enable Hyperlink check box user can
441. page or the total number of pages in a report To add this object to a report click on the Page number button on the Report Designer Studio Elements toolbar Draw a rectangle in the workspace where the page number will be displayed Then the Page Number dialog window will be opened please see pic below Page Number si Select page number option to display Page number Total pages LJ Only For Current Page Select the desired option e Page number will add the number of the current page e Total pages will add the total number of pages in the report Click OK NOTE The Total pages object will be calculated dynamically during report generation based on the number of dynamically generated number of pages If the check box Only for current page will be checked then the page number will be displayed only on the page where the object definition is added If this check box will not be checked then the page number will be automatically added to every page of that report By default the Only for current page check box is not checked The text properties of the object can be changed using the studio font toolbar e g font size color style When copying pasting this object on another page it will automatically display the number of the new page When adding Page Number to a page template and then applying that page template to another multi page report the Page Number object will automatically update the page number in each pla
442. pecify the font style font color and background color for the legend To use a transparent background for the legend open the background color palette and select No color This option can only be applied when the Display Legend check box is enabled 201 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd The Advanced SQL Condition section is described in details in the Advanced SQL Condition section Line Chart Line Chart is an object that displays data in a chart To add a chart to a report click the Chart button on the Report Designer Studio Elements toolbar E 7 Defirtion Get Data Prom Select Osta tem Draw a rectangle where you would 2 Dream Report Hatery Deta Source like to place the chart in the report External History Server phir AET Ren Name workspace and the Chart definition ath petanwki dialog box will be opened Agoly correction factor for af item values use 2 9 1000 ADF to be used PED Chart Definition Fieri w Lee The Get Data From radio buttons tstcracadbinaets Mawel Dwy specify the kind of data source for the vale A adi chart Define tee period Fed Penod x The data source and data item can be aia Poa iki z selected from the relevant combo Start Date and Time boxes in the Select Data Item group HS a me Add Line Select the desired data source and TT X Axis settings item select the line color line width Eee Date and Time and style specify the line legend if
443. performed If Select existing report template radio button is enabled then the following Reports Page Design window will be opened Tiy Dream Report Froject _reanng Yw izard_ Froject Name eH i In this section you can create a visual template for your report m as Connectivity ey ee iS Select existing report template oe F Appi report settings C ona Name Schedule Event Distnibuton Time Pernod TESELE Page Design Select tags Select Objects First select with the browse button to the right from the combo box the desired report template from the Templates folder of the Dream Report installation directory tdr files If the selected report template has any of the following settings Report Settings Export Excel Settings or Tag Dictionary then the corresponding options in the Reports Page Design window will become enabled Example if you select report energy 4 template see pic above and this existing report template has all the settings mentioned above Report Settings Export to Excel Settings and Tag Dictionary then Apply report settings and Apply export to Excel settings check boxes will become checked and the Configure Tags List button will become enabled But if you select an existing report template that has only the Report Seitings option set then only the Apply report settings check box will become checked The Apply export to Excel settings check box will remain unchecked and th
444. period and is not relevant for time based periods Batch start time displays the start time of the batch used as the time period for the calculation If the range of batches is used then the start time of the first batch from the range will be displayed This function can be used only with batch based time period and is not relevant for time based periods Batch end time displays the end time of the batch used as the time period for the calculation If the range of batches is used then the end time of the last batch from the range will be displayed This function can be used only with batch based time period and is not relevant for time based periods Batch duration displays the duration of the batch used as the time period for the calculation If the range of batches is used then the duration between the start time of the first batch and the end time of the last batch from the range will be displayed This function can be used only with batch based time period and is not relevant for time based periods Setpoint Analysis Functions There is a group of statistical functions with a different configuration Start time of stable period End time of stable period Duration of stable period Setpoint stability result Counter of stable periods Rate of change before entering stability zone Rate of change after exiting stability zone 135 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd If any of these statistical functions is selected then the
445. period as described Time Definition which defines the period for statistical calculations for this object is described in details in the Time Definition section of this manual Alarm Table Appearance To adjust the format of the table click on the Appearance floating splitter and the Alarm Table Appearance dialog window will be opened see pic below aes The Table Name field will contain a name which will be displayed if SF the Display Table Name check box is enabled Appearance SPREE The Display Columns list defines which columns will be displayed as a1 well as their order size width and caption ee The left row of check boxes enables and disables the appropriate e column display in the table ield Caption Width Sby A A Start Time eee eae E z The Caption column defines the caption of each column of the table Response ime Response time 7 o v If you wish to change the caption of any column double click on the appropriate caption inside the column and it will be available for Sort in D Ascending order Descending order editing oe hee Selecting any column and clicking Move Up or Move Down buttons ee will change the order of the selected column Anal Europesn X 8 Ean Agn Sie The right set of check boxes Sort By will define by which column Cohan ee e827 y the data will be sorted Only one column can be selected Radio Header a ce buttons below Sort In will define the sorting direction ascending or d
446. pic below Report Designer Studio List of Reports Project Reports List If a user will click on this entry the Report Level window will pop up Level name Industrial Report Level location Monthly Production User will have to enter the report level name Level name location of this report level Level location and click OK The new report level will be added to the report tree please see the pic below Report Designer Studia be As soon as at least one report level has been defined a user will be able to rename and delete report levels according to the needs by just right clicking on the corresponding report level please see the pic below 69 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Report Designer Studio gt List of Reports Single objects 1 SQL Tables Step Tables E Widgets Setpoint Analysis Water amp Wartpee Web Report 20 Rename Level Dynamic Objects Delete Lewel NOTES e Such report folders organization is just a logical visual representation which allows users to visually better organize their reports and be able to find access their reports faster and easier e f no report has been defined under the report level then this report level won t be stored in a project 70 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd e Users can also move reports if needed within the report
447. ply those times to the object If you add a phase for a batch it will operate the same way as batch As mentioned before a phase is used in Dream Report to make the project configuration easier to understand Golden batch In the Select Golden Batch ID combo box on the bottom x part of the Batch Definition dialog window user can enter the Bach Dsn timerne B ID of the golden batch for the data comparison All hatch De To browse for specific batch ID from the database user can Batch IDs in tine ange ao _ click on the browse button select the time period to SCSI Coan Rae search all available batch IDs from Batch Ds in time range Festa Daler Tine E Relative Date Time or select All batch IDs Then the combo box Select Golden 7S das a Das Batch ID will be automatically populated with all available ae batch IDs during the specified period and user will be able to 00 00 00 hh mm ss back og og 00 hh mm ss bac select any of them to be the Golden Batch ID ok Cancel_ As soon as the Golden Batch ID is selected this batch ID will be taken for calculations in any statistical object throughout the reporting project where time definition is configured for the Golden batoh Click Next to go to the next step of project creation Click Back to go one step back to re configure or check project configuration Click Close to exit Project Wizard without any operation performed 31 Dream Report Ocean Data
448. port Water 255 Setpomt Ansiyas 7 Limit number of stored fies 3 fles ge ejects l Store fles for penod of 0 days SQL Tables Step Tables Turbidity Report Web Trend Rapod Name Fomat iiai Report Time Definiton 67 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd The left tree contains a list of reports defined in the project Panels on the right display settings for the selected report in the tree If the report selection is changed the panel will be updated with data from the selected report The configuration of all reports in the project can be changed in one window without closing and reopening it again Clicking on another report in the tree in the left part of the dialog window will automatically update a dialog window with settings of the selected report The Report Name can be any unique logical name Only alphanumeric characters and spaces can be used otherwise unexpected problems can be expected The maximum length of a report name is 64 characters The Description of Report text box can include a short description for the report The description can be up to 256 characters The Report storage section allows you to organize report files store and maintain them in a more organized way It has the following options e Copy report files to report folder enables a user to copy generated files from this report to a special location The path can be absolute or relative to the report path defined in the Project Settin
449. ports Queue click on the Reports Queue button in the top left corner of the RMC and the RMC configuration window will be expanded By default RMC will be opened with the Reports Queue section expanded User Management If a project which RMC is trying to connect to either on a local or remote PC has User Management enabled then user will be prompted to enter a username and password If login failed the connection will be denied If a user tries to launch a new project and user login failed then the project will be started anyway in the runtime control service but the RMC will not be connected to it NOTE If User Management is activated and the RMC is minimized then if a user wants to maximize it he will have to enter the login and password again Switching between projects If a project is running and a user needs to stop it and switch to another project he will have to stop the currently running project browse for another project and click on Stari Command Lines in Runtime Manager Dream Report Runtime Manager can execute a number of command lines The Command line has the following available formats for generation requests generate This argument will say that generation request will be performed The following parameters are possible 266 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd name Report name instance Report instance name fixPeriod This argument will indicate that the fixed time period is used absPeriod Th
450. ption enables to discard from the setpoint calculation the items with the values which are either higher or lower than the ones defined in the setpoint When this option is selected a user will be able to set Low From and High To limits for the setpoint definition Any calculated statistical function or a chart where the setpoint with such definition is used will check if the entry value of every item defined in the setpoint for the specified selected time period is in the range If the item is out of the range it will be excluded from the calculation If the item which is used in 246 NY the setpoint has no value available for the specified period it will also be considered as an item which is out of the range By default this option will be unchecked If this option is checked but no working range has been set a user will get the warning message asking to define the range Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Custom Archives Import Tool This tool enables users to access any available external archive using any defined HDA driver and periodically import its data values into the Dream Report internal database which makes this data available for reporting from the standard Dream Report database To configure custom archive import click on the command button Custom Archive Import on the Tools ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar either in the Dream Report Logger Studio or Dream Report Designer Studio menu see pic below
451. r and value can be any numeric value Example 1000 or 10 see pic below Apply correction factor for all item values 10 use feg 1000 Value for the correction factor can be also dynamic i e taken from a real time item value or another statistical object If you double click on the edit box with the correction factor an item browse window will be opened where you can select a real time data source and data item Then during report generation the real time value of the selected item will be read and used as a value for the correction factor If the correction factor contains invalid syntax or invalid value or invalid operator it will be ignored and all values will be taken for consideration as they are 167 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Tables Item Table Item table is an object which displays an array of values from one or more data items within a specified value range which were logged during the specified time period To add this object please click on the fem Table button on the Report Designer Studio Elements toolbar les item Table x Data Defintion Mark in the workspace the rectangle where desired SO Re ra data will be displayed Selected List The Item Table definition dialog window will be AC AT EER iaa opened see pic on the right AEROS Batch Dete Tank1 Process Batch _Deta Tank2 Process Batch Data Tank3 Item Table Data Definition In the Get Data From dialog box
452. r e Last value the last raw value from the database e First value the first found value for the selected item from a database within the specified time period 197 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd e Current value will read and display the current value from the specified data item from real time data driver e Average the average value for this data item calculated for the specified time period Weighted average the weighted average value for this data item calculated for the specified time period Minimum the minimum value for this data item calculated for the specified time period Maximum the maximum value for this data item calculated for the specified time period Sum calculates the sum of all values of this data item during the specified time period Integral calculates the integral of all values of this data item during the specified time period Duration in the interval calculates the duration in hh mm ss when values of this data item were in the specified value range during the specified time period Counter calculates the counter value from values of this data item during the specified time period e ON Counter calculates the ON Counter from all values of this data item during the specified time period e OFF Counter calculates the OFF Counter from all values of this data item during the specified time period e ON OFF Counter calculates the ON OFF Counter from all values of this d
453. r objects and simple statistical objects Single Data Objects Compound and Expression Objects already defined in that report so that the user can select one object to control default values in others Also the Default value combo box has an entry Current time so every Timestamp Picker object will always display current time by default This entry will be displayed by default when a user will add a new object to the report Format enables users to select specific format of date and time for each Timestamp Picker This combo box has 3 options available Date and time Date and Time The Visible in PDF option controls whether this Timestamp Picker object will be displayed in the generated PDF report or not If this object is defined as invisible then it will be initialized with its default value and then all data input objects that will be based on that object will get its default value 05 03 2011 14 00 04 Example of the Timestamp Picker object in the runtime mode 216 D Hyperlink Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Hyperlink is a dynamic interactive object which enables users to add a text and turn it into a hyperlink and is available ONLY in WEB reports please also see Manual Data Entry section To add this object click on the command button Hyperlink on the Web Elements ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar in the Dream Report Designer Studio menu see pic below Home Connectiv
454. r real time historical values or Simulation Alarm Driver Simulation Driver real time historical alarms from the Simulation Driver subfolder of the Internal folder in the Select data source type section NOTE In the previous Dream Report version 3 43 the Simulation driver had one driver instance for real time data historical data and alarms configuration Now in this new version of Dream Report the Simulation driver has four driver instances and should be configured separately as Simulation Driver real time values Simulation Driver real time alarms Simulation Driver historical values or Simulation Driver historical alarms Simulation Data Driver Configuration All configuration of the Simulation Data Driver is stored in the text file dummy cfg which is located in the System folder of Dream Report installation The configuration file of the Simulation Data Driver has the following format DataSource_A Dig1 int rand 200 0 2 Tag_50_1 float rand 500 0 35 Tag100_1 int rand 500 30 95 DataSource_B Dig1 int rand 200 0 2 Tag_50_1 float rand 500 0 35 Tag100_1 int rand 500 30 95 348 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd SOURCE NAME is a definition of a virtual data server One configuration file can contain multiple source definitions They will be just listed one below the other like shown on example above List of items is added one below another right below the source name Each source can have a list of its own items lt
455. r the Manual driver They can be added or removed from the entire group Select manual items that should be logged For details on how to define an item group please go to the Item Group Definition section 7 Define record rate and record conditions in the corresponding dialog boxes for details please go to the Logging Schedule and Log on Condition sections 8 As soon as the manual item group has been added to the Logger studio the manual items will be logged into the Dream Report database on the conditions defined Runtime If during running a project user must enter manual values he will have to open Manual Value Editor It can be opened only when the runtime manager is running otherwise user will get an error message that runtime is not running There are two ways to do it A Using windows start menu Start gt All Programs gt ODS gt Dream Report gt Manual Data Editor B Open Runtime Management Console dialog window and select the menu Project Access gt Manual Values Editor Then the Manual values editor Window will Hansa waiss editos x be opened Sekai Chats Stance Selecind fem values 1 Select a data source name from the Select ms Date em ve T Data Source combo box Default tatap energy I The list of selected items will be filled with all 208 iesa7 the items available for these selected items 2 Set a Default timestamp which will be set by default for all manual values 3 Double click
456. raded to version 4 5 the InTouch Native driver is automatically replaced by SuiteLink driver SuiteLink Protocol over TCP IP real time values driver enables users to connect to Wonderware products either locally or remotely and to extract real time data using Wonderware SuiteLink Server SuiteLink driver can be selected from the Wonderware folder in the Select Data Source Type section in the Communication Configuration Wizard dialog window please see the picture below Communication Configuration Wizard K Select Dala Source Typa TER nce ee Conhigune Drvar for Selected Source Dehned Carvers List 4 a Hi ee Dae Logical Hame BE ppan Server hocal o nerob Driver Logecal Name BB Aras Ew Historian SuibeLink driver Adel B O06C lure W OEC daa B InTouch histomcal values LGH Mes te Lucida i aia ei ery FS E Be Sie Alans E ERLE 3 j Aspentech 3 9 Open comnuricalion prolocals j Citect J E Siemens 2439 Ewa 4 43 Loptec 3 Gi Pitat i D Caaan a Data Source Descnipio SuieLink Protocol over TORAP cn NOTE SuiteLink driver will be available only if SuiteLink Service is installed on the PC where Dream Report is installed SuiteLink Service is automatically installed on the PC with the installation of any of the Wonderware products If you select SuiteLink Protocol over TCP IP real time values driver and click on Configure button the WW SuiteLInk Configuration win
457. rameter name gt Example file C Batch Report_gen xml Dataset name Report Preprocessor Application Items can be replaced in the following objects Charts Automatic Statistical Tables Item Tables Charts When replacing items each line will be added in the order of its retrieval from the database Data source will NOT be replaced New dynamic items will have the same data source as originally defined in a chart If a chart has several data sources for different lines then the first one defined for the first line will be considered as the correct data source When replacing the existing lines each new line will take the corresponding color of a replacing line E g If chart definition has three lines defined with item A red item B blue and item C green and if two lines come from a database by preprocessor then those two lines will take colors red and blue in the order of their retrieval from a database If new lines are more than ones in the existing chart definition then all lines exceeding the original number will take default colors Each such an item name will be automatically added to the legend so a user will automatically see which item corresponds to which color If original chart definition has separate line settings e g time scale settings for different lines then the line setting of the first line in a chart will be taken as a default one for all dynamic lines If there is any line defined on Absolute
458. ration To configure EDI driver first open the Open communication protocols section of the Communication Configuration Wizard dialog window Communication Configuration izad Seksi Dala Sauce ypa Configues Deye for Selected Source Dehred Orrann List PA Webern m Dre Logical Harme i Wondene va H E Asperdech Driver Logical Mame BB EENS psi communication protocol Exo rer Audi BP 008C_Alams a Gy BACret W iiic dss h J Ca Pr Bim Stine te Exod Data import rea ime values I Emi A FL rahe waiss A Hodan TCPAP ASA A50 HE obec 42 OLE DS gg OPC S SMM pakira vaks Tieci i Simi m Ewothem H Lote Doimi hiie ihia Vala SoulGe Darcis Taa Cats mga reeled wahi ee ee Click on Configure button and the following dialog window will be opened 303 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd a Exel Data Import Configuration Read data from Excel fle s from Single tags definition ic Data DEF ds Tag Mame ig Ried from the cell A 1 Inchsciny subfolders Manual name D oe pelai Soreadeheet Tj vale reed fram the cell 4 Z Select Soreecdsset Tag wakas ype Twat x Single tag Timestamp definiton Chek few nee dala ayey 2 1 minis i Dete es kosted n h E 4 Values in excel file date block are recorded Timestamp start from Ge oel o 7 Vertically top doven ee Add Delete u ni Tan bo a F Do not import data blocks Tag name Waua imi Type Daiei Time
459. re vaki A FLli dodbus TCPAP AS H Obac GLE DE i UFE E SHMP pester vaes a Citect a Ej Sermens H Eurstherm a i Loptec ee Whai aalma values Configure Dizer for Selected Sonce Defined Orive List Driver Logical Name Driver Logical Name a BB rhi Bodas Drier Add E OTEC Aam EE Sim_Alams uoe Se H iin Fea Das Hura Dakap Modbus TOPAR Abate ASC If you select Modbus driver and click on Configure button the Modbus driver configuration window will be opened Modbus diver configuration Load predefined profile eunctherm_2208_Y 130 pk9 Cunent working profile Humber of tage Protocol configuration Protocel bape Midas z Transport configuration Address Port UntID 50 Subscnbe msec 1000 Lache mrec 1000 Configure Ws Comimuricaiorn tyge C imee This window provides users with the possibility to configure communication parameters to a Modbus device and also data points in that device for communication 312 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Modbus Profiles There are pre configured profiles in the product installation supplied with the product When installing the product there is a folder Modbus in the System folder in the product installation e g C Program Files ODS Dream Report System Modbus All profile files are located there where the name of a profile file is the displayed name of a profile in the profile list Profile is a ready set of
460. real time alarm and native history access Wonderware OPC driver Data Access DA This driver allows connecting to the Wonderware data servers e g Application Server InTouch etc via FS Gateway OPC server and exchange data with it read values receive value updates write values back to it Wonderware OPC driver has special functionality to connect to FS Gateway server only once from both the Runtime manager and the Designer studio using only one client connection complying with FS Gateway single client limitation 278 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Detailed description can be found in the section Wonderware OPC Driver Eurotherm Review Eurotherm History Access HDA Proprietary history access driver for Review product line of Eurotherm This driver enables history data extraction history messages extraction and has also support for native batch of Review NOTE This driver is protected by special license option and is not available for open use To obtain license option for Eurotherm Review please contact Eurotherm HQ Worthing UK or your Dream Report distributor Detailed description can be found in the section Eurotherm Review UHH Driver iFix GE Fanuc Intellution Full Integration iFix driver provides complete integration of Dream Report and iFix SCADA system This driver provides access to real time data real time alarms for logging into the Dream Report database as well as access to proprietary history of
461. ream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd lf a user changes selection to another report then the tag dictionary and instances configuration of another report will be opened here However all modifications done for the previous report will be not canceled They will be stored in the memory Only when the user clicks on Apply all current changes to all reports during this working session since this window was opened will be saved into the configuration file By clicking OK all changes will be saved and the window will be closed If a user clicks on Cancel then all changes will be ignored and the window will be closed All virtual instances configuration will be saved in the XML file rvi xml This file will be saved in the project folder and will contain all virtual instance definitions for all reports in the project Dynamic Token object The Dynamic token object will have a new entry in its combo box Instance name If its selected and the report is generated its displayed value will be the name of a virtual instance which was currently generated If report is generated for generic template then the string Default will be displayed Search and Replace Users can change data items by clicking Search and Replace button below the Instance Description edit box For details on how to find and replace data items please see the corresponding part of the Tag Dictionary section of this manual 252 NY report generation Dream
462. reports from the list click on the button Delete on the PC keyboard to remove reports from the generation queue If report is being generated it will not be available for removal Before removing reports from the screen a confirmation message box will be displayed Do you want to remove selected reports from the generation queue Yes No and if you click OK the selected reports will be removed from the generation queue 265 NY If you want to close the Reports Queue section click on the Reports Queue button in the top left corner of the RMC configuration window as shown on the picture below Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Runtime Management Console Available Reports Batch reports J Energy Report examples 7 i f Energy Efficiency Report Local Lornect i i n Report Ene roy Reports Queue H E OEE Performance and Maintenance pa Production and Manufacturing i C ODS Dream Report Project Demo Demo Ej Reporting Objects Examples 4 _ Setpoint Analysis i Reload Water amp Waste Water i State Project is Running H Web Reports Current User i Operating Mode ACTIVE Generate Reports ll i 7 P Generate Open Dynamic Generation Report Info Current Status Waiting Project Access Last Generated 9 5 2012 11 20 58 open Heip Next Generation 10 1 2012 00 00 00 Queued kL Correspondingly if you need to open Re
463. rinting No Changing Document No Copying or Extraction and No Adding or Changing Form Fields Using these permissions you can prohibit users from printing and using cut and paste operations To disable encryption permission and password protection uncheck the Activate PDF Security check box 89 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Logger Configuration Studio Logger Studio Overview Logger studio is a user interface to configure all data communication and logging Logger studio is split vertically into two parts the upper part is data communication and logging definition and the bottom part is alarm communication and logging definition To establish communication select the appropriate communication drivers Detailed explanation of data source definition is described in the Communication Driver Definition chapter The top left list box contains a list of all data items groups for data logging A detailed explanation of data item group definition is in the Item Group chapter The upper list control shows the items from your selected source or selected group You can define which list of items you would like to see using combo boxes above this list control The left combo box allows you to select Item List by Data Source Then the right combo box will be filled with a list of available data sources defined in a project and the configured source the item list will be filled with the list of items from that data source If you will s
464. rmat La UTC Time format Miliseconds ok Cancel 292 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Data File s Location Configuration Data File s Location section enables users to provide full path to CSV Text files location from where data will be converted into the Dream Report database please see the picture below Data File s Location Select Folder toa Locate Files CMCSY projecthosy pool Static data files names separated by for example AFAFA File Extension CEW Delete File After Processing In Select Folder to Locate Files section please provide location of files from where data is going to be exported into the Dream Report database Static data files option is used if end user has only specific files to be scanned for data export In this dialog he can specify only one file However by editing an xml configuration file it is possible to add several files File Extension is by default configured for CSV files Another type of file extension can be edited manually lf Delete File After Processing option is selected then CSV Text files will be removed after processing Connection Status Update Checkup Rate indicates how often Dream Report will check for new updates in the directory specified above in the Data File s Location Configuration section or if static data files are renewed Update Checkup Rate is measured in seconds Data Delimiter provides indication of the text for column separation
465. roject will have a check box Run project wizard just below the radio button New Project 18 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Open Project si Mew Project Run project wizard Open Existing Project New Cancel By default it will be checked If a user leaves it checked then when he clicks New the Dream Report studio will be closed and Project Wizard will be started NOTE Several instances of Project Wizard can be started at once At each step of Project Wizard if a user clicks on the Close button it will be closed without any operations performed No project will be created If a user clicks on the Back button at any step Project Wizard will go one step back and user will be able to either re configure its functionality settings or to check the configuration If a user clicks on the Nex button Project Wizard will bring him her to the next step of project creation NOTE If Project Wizard is launched when opening the Dream Report Designer Studio then when it will close after project creation is complete the Dream Report Designer Studio will start automatically with the project just created If Project Wizard is launched either from the Windows start menu or by double clicking on the ProjectWizard exe file in the Dream Report project system folder then when Project Wizard will close after project creation nothing will happen This project and all its configuration files will be saved in the Drea
466. rom To Display text A p 0 000000 10 000000 Good If no text is specified for a value range then the 0 000000 o onoan Goad Modify original result will be specified in the report but the 30 000000 100 000000 High variation result representation will use font and text AD0 O00000 30 000000 High variation Delete background properties defined for that value OO O00000 lt 100 000000 Abnormal varia range 100 000000 500 000000 Abnormal varia Example1 If you specify to display text STOP with the value range From O to 0 and RUN with the value range 1 1 then if during report generation the result is 1 then instead of value 1 the PDF report will contain RUN Example2 If you specify no text and red bold font for value range 0 10 and no text and green font for value range 11 20 then if the result value is 9 you will see 9 in your report PDF file Using tags to define limit range for Advanced Visualization Values for advanced visualization can be taken dynamically from real time tag values For this you have to enter tag names instead of values into the From or and To edit boxes If you double click on From or To edit box the Select Data Item dialog box will be open enabling selection of a tag from any real time data source When generating report this reporting object will read the real time value of the selected tag and then will use this value to define the limit range for advanced visualization NOTE If there is an o
467. roup menu option will delete the definition of the selected group The Add Items to Group menu option will open the Select Data Items Add Items dialog box which is described below It will edit the data item list of the entire group Select Add item group from the context menu and the Item Group Definition dialog box will be opened see pic below Add Item Group dialog box has 3 tab pages e General e Record Rate Logging Schedule e Record Conditions Log on Condition 94 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Item Group Definition General Add item group General This page defines the following general properties of a group Brain Wane e Logical name Temperature 1 e Short description if needed e Selection of data source from which a user will include items into a group e Data items list Group Deecnption Group Name is a unique logical name which will distinguish the entire group from others and give a tip to a user about the data content Each group name must be unique aeons Group Description allows the report developer to put comments about the purpose of a group or other useful information Add tems The Group Source combo box is filled with a list of the drivers already defined in the project The developer has to select a driver from which data points will be included into a group Record Rate The Add Data Source button will add a new driver to the Record Conditions project When the user click
468. rt project DSN was defined in order to connect to SQL databases SQL Server 2008 SQL Server 2005 SQL Server 2000 7 0 then in version 4 the driver in the DSN definition should be changed for the SQL Native Client 10 0 driver For details please see the Project Upgrade Procedure section of this manual Application tips o ODBC driver has been qualified and used with MS SQL Server MySQL MS Access Oracle INSQL o In order to retrieve data from Oracle database the following timestamp format has to be configured YYYY MM DD HH MM SS o ODBC driver can extract and process numeric and string values o Null values are always ignored NOTE If you need to configure the same driver more than once then after having configured it the first time you ll just need to click in the Select Data Source Type field on any other driver and then go back to the driver that you need to configure 288 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd BACnet Communication Drivers Dream Report has a set of BACnet drivers which includes the following driver types gt BACnet real time values gt BACnet real time alarms and events gt BACnet historical values from trend log objects NOTE When the BACnet communication driver is installed BACstac 6 0 will also be installed If the operating system has earlier versions of BACstac installed then for proper functionality of the Dream Report BACnet driver they must be removed and BACstac 6 0 be install
469. s List section will contain the list of all aggregated data filters ADFs defined in the project To configure ADF user will have to 1 Enter ADF Name Aggregated Data Filter Name 2 Select ADF type in the Aggregated Data Filter Type combo box There are 2 options available Sample based and Aggregated e lf Sample based mode is selected then please gt in the Retrieve combo box select among the available options First Last Key and Distributed which values should be retrieved gt inthe Samples edit box enter a number of samples whole non zero numeric value 260 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd gt in the For every combo boxes select step period for data retrieval please see the picture below Aggregated Data Filter Type Sample based Aggregated Data Filter s Settings Retrieve For every Step period for data retrieval can have the following options second s minute s hour s day s week s month s year s e lf Aggregated mode is selected then please gt inthe Retrieve combo box select statistical function which will be calculated for every defined period Statistical function selection has the following statistical functions available First Value Last Value Maximum Value Minimum Value Integral Value Weighted Average Value Average Value Sum Value and Moved Average
470. s Ltd Tag Group Name When the tag group configuration is finished a user will have to confirm the creation of a new tag logging group in the following window Configuration of tag archiving definition group is completed Please specify a name for your new tag archnang definition group Process fasta Entry Simin T Group name should be a unique logical name which will give a tip to a user about the data content Click Next to go to the next step of project creation Click Back to go one step back to re configure or check project configuration Click Close to exit Project Wizard without any operation performed Batch Definition Batch Definition enables users to define a rule to dynamically calculate time periods for report generation If a report is for a batch process process loop where the exact time period and duration is not known in advance use this batch mechanism of the Dream Report Project Wizard Each batch process is marked by a unique ID and this ID will be used later to recognize and distinguish batches process loops So in order to track batches define the source for batch IDs 28 yy The Batch definition window please see pic below has 2 options Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd ream Report Proj reaung Wizar This section allows you creating one or multiple batch definitions to be able to generate reports based on batch and not based on time Do you need to use batch informat
471. s all or some of them he will have only to click on Search button again and each time this button is clicked the window focus will be put on another statistical object which has the specified data item If a user needs to replace any specified data item in the statistical objects in that report he will have to select data item to replace with in the Select Data Item to be replaced by section below Then click on Replace All button and all the statistical objects which use the specified item searched will replace this specified searched item inside their definition by the item selected to be replaced by 116 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Then the box which will show the number of found statistical objects where this data item replacement has been done will pop up Humber of found objects E Z Oil production Select Object Single Data Objects gt Edt Object Chose If a user needs to do any changes in any of the objects from this list he will have to click on Edit Object and the window focus will be put on that object Otherwise click C ose and exit without any changes lf a user wants to replace any specified data item only in one statistical object he will first have to select the specified data item Then by clicking Search button find the statistical object needed and do the replacements To replace time definition select Time definition option on the top of the dialog window T
472. s and if everything is correct Then it will be added to the list i e added to the dba files library database and list control with the new file will be updated 259 NY Aggregated Data Filter Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Aggregated Data Filter enables Dream Report to connect to any external history HDA data source and not only to retrieve all values as an array of raw values but to do smart data retrieval i e extract key values aggregated values etc This mechanism allows smart aggregation extraction from any custom proprietary data source e g binary files etc To configure an aggregated data filter click on the command button Aggregated Data Filter on the Tools ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar either in the Dream Report Studio menu see pic below Lo Home Connectivity Project Web Elements Tools Runtime s iron jis e A ig ya os oc wy Be Tag Setpoint analysis Custom Virtual Report Report UHH DSN Database archivin Dictionary configuration Archive Import Instances filters Import Tool Manager configuration Tools The ADF Configuration dialog window will be opened please see the picture below ADF Configuration x Aggregated Data Filter Name Aggregated Data Filter s List Cydic Aggregated filter name Aggregated Data Filter Type Aggregated Aggregated Data Filter s Settings Retrieve Average value Aggregated filter name edit box of the Aggregated Data Filter
473. s mio a Drean Report historian Baltch Definition Mo thank you 1 will use external archeves for reporting Reports e If No thank you will use external archives for reporting option is selected the button Nex will skip the Data archiving section and a user will go directly to the Project Wizard Batch definition section e f Yes want to archive real time tags into a Dream Report historian option is selected then a user will go to the Project Wizard Data archiving section NOTE If a user has defined at least one real time driver he can start configuring data logging into the Dream Report historian in the Project Wizard Data archiving section But if a user has defined only external history access drivers he will not be able to configure data logging into the Dream Report historian and will have to go directly to the Project Wizard Batch definition section Click Next to go to the next step of project creation Click Back to go one step back to re configure or check project configuration Click Close to exit Project Wizard without any operation performed 24 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Data Archiving Data archiving enables data logging into the Dream Report history database If a user selects Yes want to archive real time tags into a Dream Report historian option in the dialog window below and clicks Next he will go directly to the Data archiving section where he can d
474. s settings for rulers and the grid in the report designer workspace User can open the dialog window with Grid and Ruler settings either using the menu in the Designer studio or the toolbar button To learn more about how to create header and footer please refer to the Page Template section Rulers God and Ruler settings m Rulers are the vertical bar on the left side of the page and the horizontal bar on the top side of the page which show the exact position of the object mm inches on the output report page Units Subdivisions horizontal and vertical define the a il Wertical space between ticks in the ruler The upper combo binimum Spacing 5 E box has 3 preset positions If the unit selection is mm then the ruler definition will have the following spacing e Fine 1mm tick Rulers e Normal 5mm tick and e Coarse 1cm tick Horizontal Vertical Subdivisions Fine k Fine T If the unit selection is inches then the ruler definition will have the following spacing e Fine 1 32 tick e Normal 1 8 tick and e Coarse 1 tick Ruler Zero defines the offset between 0 ruler mark and the top left corner of the page Grid The grid is a set of dots drawn in vertical and horizontal lines over the workspace which makes it easy to align objects on the page and align objects with each other Grid spacing defines the distance between dots in ticks Minimum spacing This value sets minimum grid spacing whic
475. s this button a standard driver configuration dialog box Communication Configuration Lites L_ too Wizard will be opened When the user clicks OK and closes that dialog the driver list in the Group Source combo box will be renewed The Add Items button will open a new dialog box Select Data ltems containing the complete list of all data items from the selected drivers User will be able to add or remove items from the entire group The left list box of that window will contain a complete list of available items and the right list box will contain a list of items selected for the entire group Items Filter enables users to easily find an item in a list AS soon as a prefix is entered the list will be automatically filtered by the prefix Use an asterisk as a wildcard character 95 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Item Group Definition Logging Schedule When the group definition dialog box is opened a user can click on the Record Rate floating splitter and the appropriate tab page will be opened Here a user can select the logging mode and the logging schedule for the entire group Upper section Record Mode defines how often values of all Add item group x data items in the group will be logged in the database during the logging period General There are 5 options for the data logging mode On Change On Record Rate Update Every On Item Value Change and On Absolute Time Record Mode Recon Mode Tolera
476. sPeriod timeStart 31 12 2010 00 00 00 timeEnd 01 01 2011 00 00 00 e rtm exe generate name Report_1 instance Instance_1 relPeriod timeStart 10 2 30 30 timeEnd 5 2 30 30 e rtm exe generate name Report_1 instance Instance_1 batchRelPeriod batchDef MyBatch batchRel last batchCount 2 e rtm exe generate name Rep1 instance Inst1 batchAbsPeriod batchDef MyBatch batchidStart 120 batchldEnd 130 e rtm exe generate name Rep instance Inst1 currentTime 2010 12 02 18 00 20 e rtm exe generate name Rep1 instance Inst1 target pdf excel email printer e rtm exe generate name Rep1 instance Inst1 fileParam C Data params xml Examples of targets for the report t pdf t pdf excel t pdf excel email t pdf excel email printer NOTES e Report target printer will send output files for printing according to the printer settings of the report file format of the Dream Report Studio It means that no matter which targets have been defined in the cmd command printer will receive only those files which have been defined in the Dream Report Studio Report Settings e If the generated report needs to be delivered to the email user must always add the generated report output format PDFor and Excel to the t email command line Example t pdf email report will be sent to the defined email with the report generated in PDF format t excel email report will be sent to the defined email with the repor
477. se Column lItem and Use File name as Item name please see the picture below File Access Configuration File Structure Simple Database Colournn ltern Use File name as ltem name Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd If Simple Database option is selected user will have to specify columns which correspond to the Item Name Item Value and Timestamp If Column ltem option is selected user will have to specify column name which corresponds to the Timestamp If Use File name as Item name option is selected user will have to specify columns which correspond to the Timestamp and Item Value In order to read structure and retrieve appropriate information from CSV Text files please press Connect button Data Access Configuration In Data Access Configuration section please specify the correspondence of fields in the CSV Text driver and columns in CSV Text files please see the picture below Data Access Contiguration ltem Marne ltem Value Date Time Milliseconds NOTE Some CSV Text files include two or three separate columns for Date Time and Miliseconds If any of these columns is not used please keep the corresponding column empty Please see an example of CSV Text Data Access driver configuration below Example 1 Configuration of CSV files for CSV Tag Values driver CSV Text Data Access Configuration Osta File s Location Select Folder to Locate Files C Documents and Settings Admnnistrator Desktop
478. semi column used as a separator A list export file will have a header as the first row and data starting from the second row It will have 5 columns Name Type Min Max Description Name and Type fields are obligatory and others are optional If you click Import button the standard Windows Open file window will be opened where you can select location and name for the list import file Open file will be filtered by csv extension The format of the import file list will be exactly the same as described in the Export section Only 2 columns Name and Type are obligatory If a list file with only these 2 columns has been created such an import file should be imported as well When a file will be imported the message box will pop up asking Do you want to replace existing tags by the importing list The corresponding operation will be done according to a user s choice NOTE If you try to import tags appending the list to the existing one and some imported tag will have the same name as an already existing tag a message box will pop up saying that the duplicated tag name has been found specifying the name of that tag and proposing a user to choose either to use an existing tag definition or delete an existing one and use an imported tag definition The corresponding action will be done according to a user s choice There is no limit in term of the number of tags defined in the Web manual driver configura
479. ser rights Dream Report installation requires that current Windows user must have administrator rights on that local machine where the product is installed If the current user has only guest or other limited user rights the installation will not run properly Also to run and use the product using both designer studio and runtime manager a user needs to have local administrative rights Firewall Blocking 10 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd lf your PC has Firewall installed and turned on please allow unblocking the following components LoggerRT exe USC exe and Generator exe These are the components of Dream Report and won t do any harm to your PC lt is possible to modify or to remove Dream Report from your computer in two ways 1 Open Start menu 2 Use Add Remove Programs component in the Control Panel of your Windows Mc dify ge xisti ing i nstallatio In case Pr use the same naain to Remove Modify Dream Report installation when starting the installation you will see the dialog window which will offer you 2 available options either Modify or Remove the existing product installation Dream Report InstallShield Wizard l E l Welcome Modify repair or remove the program welcome to the Dream Report Setup Maintenance program This program lets you modify the curent installation Click one of the options below g Modify ALA Ty Select new program features to add or select currently installed fea
480. server enter login and password to the SQL Server with WW Historian If your SQL Server has Windows Authentication mode then leave the User name and Password edit boxes empty If you wish to test connection to your selected WW Historian server click on Test Connection button and the message box with the appropriate result of test connection will be displayed 3 Inthe Data Retrieval Common Parameters section define the rule for the quality of retrieving data from the WW Historian 4 Inthe Data Retrieval Options section select the way the data should be retrieved by this driver from the WW Historian For more information about the data retrieval quality rules and the data retrieval modes please refer to WW Historian user manual NOTE If you need to configure the same driver more than once then after having configured it the first time you ll just need to click in the Select Data Source Type field on any other driver and then go back to the driver that you need to configure 326 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd InTouch Native driver SuiteLink Driver Dream Report includes InTouch Native driver which allows connecting Dream Report to InTouch receiving list of tags from the local InTouch HMI project receiving tag values from InTouch writing values back to InTouch and also receiving real time alarms from InTouch In Dream Report version 4 5 it has been replaced by SuiteLink driver Thus if Dream Report is upg
481. sh Candi ben Operation Property Condition Condition settings AND on Property Type Condi than Cancel When the dialog window will be opened it will connect to the Database and get the list of alarm logs This list will be available in the Alarm log combo box for selection In the Filter Name section user will have to define the name of the alarm filter which should be unique Condition Settings The Property combo box will include the list of all properties which exist in the alarm log selected from the Alarm Log combo box NOTE Property is a list of all columns from the Alarm log table without the timestamp Alarm log is a table where the list of its columns includes the column LogList The name of the table is the name of the alarm log If user clicks Refresh button the Alarm log combo box will be filled with the updated list of the tables If any alarm log has been selected in this combo box then the Property combo box will be filled with the list of alarm properties of the selected alarm log If before clicking the Refresh button any alarm property has been selected this selection will remain unchanged The Type combo box will include 3 options Numeric Text and Boolean If the Numeric type is selected the Condition combo box will have the following options gt gt lt lt BETWEEN If the Text type is selected the Condition combo box will include the following options IS IS NOT
482. sual and functional content of a web portal which will be available for web clients Timeouts group box contains tunable timeout parameters described below e Logout on user inactivity parameter specifies a timeout period during which if a user performs no action click mouse move press key on a keyboard web portal will automatically logout a currently logged user So then user will need to login again to continue working with a web portal e Refresh Details page each parameter specifies a timeout period where every such a period web portal will automatically check for updates in the reporting project and refresh Details page Parameter value 1 will disable auto refresh of the Details page This value is set by default Minimum value is 1 second i e web portal Ocean Data Systems Ltd Project Settings x General Data Base Definition Web configuration Alias name for local web Display Options DRweb V Skin V Search bar Confoure NS V Report history Default lanquage for web M Details page lt Default project language V New report V New dynamic report Remote Station Definition as 7 z Station Name x Language selection E j vV Navigation pane Timeouts URL Logout on user inactivity 300 Seconds Refresh Details page each hate a Seconds Modify Staton Name URL localhost ittp focalhost DRWeb Set Paths Log File Hotbackup Configuration Localization
483. t 200 Parameters 3 import Export cn 358 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Define tags for the selected data source Every manual tag must have its Name and Type Optional information can be also added in the Description box any free text or for the data validation criteria Min and Max values The defined manual tag can be one of three types available Analog default selection Boolean and Text NOTE The data validation criteria input is available only for the Analog type tags If other type is selected validation criteria input controls will be hidden Values for both Min and Max for the validation criteria are expected as integer or float numbers They will be saved and displayed as a double format number If Min or Max value edit boxes remain empty the corresponding Min or Max double value will be considered The amount of manual tags defined in the Manual Entry Parameters configuration window will be displayed in the Parameters section below the manual tags list If you click Export button the standard Windows Save As window will be opened where you can select location and name for the list export file A list export file format is csv with semi column used as a separator A list export file will have a header as the first row and data starting from the second row It will have 5 columns Name Type Min Max Description Name and Type fields are obligatory and others are optional If you click
484. t LGH If a user will click on the button in the Configure Access to LGH data files section then the standard Select folder dialog window will be opened it will be the same as the one which is opened when a user clicks on the button to browse for an InTouch project Tag Browser 331 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd When opening the history tag browser for the first time the driver will get the list of all tags and save it in a static tag array Then when another call to get a browse of the list of tags will come the driver will return immediately the ready content of the tag array This array will be kept until the driver Shut function is called Data extraction When the request to get the list of values arrives from the History Manager the driver will open appropriate LGH files will extract all values of the specified tag for the specific period of time and will return it Following the common design of all Dream Report data access drivers when extracting all tag values from the LGH archive the driver will fill the values vector which is provided by the History Manager with the maximum of 100 values and will remove those provided from its internal record set Then when the History Manager will call the driver again to receive the next portion 100 values the driver will just fill the array with the next 100 values and also delete them from its internal record set This will be called in a loop until
485. t Definition x combo box defines the number of digits to the right of the decimal point User can select a Compound Data Object Definition number between 0 6 from a combo box Result Representation Other values can t be entered manually Enable object visible in report The Write Result Back to Data Item group vi Visible box enables users to define the output action of the result i e to which source and item to Select unit to add to result write back the calculation result lt None gt lf the Write Result Back to Data Item check i Precsion of result after decimal point box is enabled then select the data source ser hr a EA ETA and item where calculated statistic result will 2 bi be written to The item selection will contain all available data items from all available data Write Result Back to Data Item sources Data Source The result will be written to the selected data ia Biia item each time the statistical object is calculated during report generation Show result as The Advanced options button will open the Advanced Visualization settings window Default Calculation v which is described in detail in the Advanced Visualization section Advanced options OK Cancel 151 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd The Internal Hyperlink button will open Internal Hyperlink Parameters Configuration Dialog window please see the picture below 4 Enable Hyper Link Select Report to generate Production_Repart
486. t Ocean Data Systems Ltd e Display every alarm once If this check box will be checked then if the same alarm will occur multiple times over the period it will be presented in the list by one first occurrence line only The criteria to compare alarms to identify the same alarms will be the combination of Alarm text and alarm Priority lf an alarm will have the same text and the same priority it will be considered as the same alarm If priority is not available then the alarm text will only be used for analysis Timestamp of the last occurred alarm will be shown If for the last started alarm there is no acknowledged time or and end time the corresponding columns will be empty The Duration column will show accumulated duration time for all alarm occurrences If there is no end time for the last occurrence the Duration column will show duration for previous occurrences If there is only one alarm without end time the Duration column will be empty The Response Time column will show response time for the last occurrence only If the last occurrence doesn t have an acknowledged time the Response Time column will be empty Number of Occurrences The list of available alarm table columns will have a new column Number of occurrences This will be the calculated column like Duration or Response time and it will display how many times the same alarm occurred during the alarm table period The criteria to compare alarms to identify the same ones will
487. t for alarm timestamps star ack end time will be used in the same way as configured in the Date timestamp format configuration section please refer to the Timestamp management paragraph paragraph 5 above o Os KS SCS S SCS S SCS S 2 hS NOTE Data mapping for InTouch alarms database To pick up alarms from the InTouch alarm SQL Server database please 1 Select DSN for InTouch alarm SQL Server database 2 Click Connect button 3 Select AlarmEventHistory as alarm table in the left list of the tables map fields to retrieve alarm data as follows e As InTouch alarms don t have ID select Priority field for alarm ID e For alarm text select Description field 287 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd e For alarm priority select Priority field e For alarm start ack and end time select EventStamp field 3 In your alarm table in Dream Report please uncheck disable Ack time End time Duration and Response time columns for proper display DSN ODBC when using a 64bit OS If Dream Report is installed on 64 bits Operating System i e Windows 7 or Windows 2008 Server DSN ODBC may not work with 64bit ODBC In this case please use ODBCad32 which is located in C Windows SysW OW64 directory to create a 32bit DSN to work with Dream Report For details please see Using Dream Report in 64 Bit OS section DSN settings SQL Server connection in Version 4 If before upgrading to version 4 2 the Dream Repo
488. t generated in Excel format 267 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd t pdf excel email report will be sent to the defined email with the report generated in PDF and Excel format Starting the Project command line In order to be able to start project from the command line the following command has to be run lt path to RTM gt rtm exe control startproject full project path Example C ODS Dream Report System RTM exe control startproject C ODS Dream Report Project Demo Demo drpj Backward Compatibility Command Formats For backward compatibility Runtime Manager also accepts old command formats generate exe lt report name gt f lt period gt generate exe lt report name gt a r lt start of period gt lt end of period gt List of accepted parameters lt report gt is the name of report to be generated f is a fixed period for report generation lt period gt is a period for report generation It can have the following values last day last n days last hour last n hours last week last n weeks last month and last n months Current day Current hour Current week Current month current quarter where n is a number from 1 to 500 a is absolute date and time mode lt Start of period gt defines the start date and time Its format is dd mm yy hh mm ss or dd mm yy hh mm ss lt end of period gt defines the en
489. t will automatically detect maximum of all values which have to be displayed in the bar line and then set maximum scale limits automatically according to that Minimum scale limit will be always zero e Manual or item based If this mode will be selected a user can manually enter a value for minimum and maximum limit for a scale If you wish to use real time tag values to set scale limits dynamically during report generation you can double click directly on a From or and To edit box and tag selection dialog window will be opened where you will be able to select any available real time data source and select any tag Then at the moment of report generation the bar graph object will read the actual real time value of that defined tag and use it to define limits of that scale The Display Style options define formatting for different bar properties e Title when this radio button is selected you can specify the font type and size for the chart title Also you can select text alignment font style font color and background color for the title text To use a transparent background color for the title open the background color palette and select No color This option is only applicable when Display Name check box is enabled e Legend when this radio button is selected you can specify the font type and size for the legend Also you can select the position of the legend either on the bottom or on the right side of the chart Also you can s
490. t without any dynamic replacement If during report generation the selected combo box has the value s selected the report will be generated in a hardcopy PDF Excel format for the selected batch ID For details of the web combo box object functions please see Combo Box section of this manual 231 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd v If Get Batch Definition From option is enabled then the combo box below will be filled with the list of all data objects combo boxes single data objects which include batch definitions please see the picture below Select Action Generate Report g Acton Parameters List of Reports Production_Report List of defined report instances O Make Dynamic Tag Replacement bet Tag List From anan Select to generate by Batch Get Batch From ee Get Batch Definition From F objecti The report will be generated in PDF Excel format for the selected batch definition To enable the action button with Generate Report action as an internal hyper link user can click on Configure button and the Internal Hyperlink Parameters Configuration Dialog window will be opened For details on how to configure internal hyper link please go to the corresponding part of the Result Representation section of this manual If Generate PDF action is selected then when user will select this option current report view will be saved as PDF in a PDF file in the reports folder Report file n
491. ta single Data Object Compound Data Compound Data Object i Expression Data Expression Data Object Copy Object A Delete Table Properties 4lign Columns To open text input for a cell double click the cell Right click on a cell to open the context menu Use the Single Data or Compound Data or Expression Data menu item to open corresponding dialog box to configure an object and attach it to the selected cell l i Align R To delete a free table right click on any cell in the table and select Delete Table SE select a table clicking on the table border and press the Delete key c a E o o AT ag E m a i i Delete Table 172 E xample of Free Table First Value Last Value Maximum Value Minimum Value Average Value Weighted Average Integral Value Sum Value Standard Deviation First m3 Last m3 Maxi m3 Mini m3 verage m3 W average m3 Integral 5um ma De iation Dream Report First_F m3 Last_F m Maxi_F m3 Mini_F ma Average F ms average _F ma Integral_F Sum_F ma Deviation_F First_B m3 Last_B m3 Maxi_B m3 Mini_B ma Average Bms i average _B ma Integral_B 3um_B m3 Deviation_B Ocean Data Systems Ltd First_B TS Last_B TS Maxi_ BTS Mini_B_TS RT_B First Value Last Value Maximum Value Minimum Value Run Time 173 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Automatic Statistical Table Au
492. tabase for the Mean Kinetic Temperature calculation is less than the defined maximum of samples then all the entire object period will be considered for calculation and all received available values will be used for calculation If the option By number of periods is selected then Dream Report will consider the entire time period defined in the object as the base period for the end calculation Then it will split that entire time period into the number defined in the Mean Kinetic Temperature configuration of equal parts calculate the minimum and the maximum values for each of those smaller parts periods and use that for the entire calculation If the option By defined periods is selected then Dream Report will split the entire object time period into the number of equal parts where the length of each part will be equal to the one defined in the Mean Kinetic Temperature configuration similar to the bar graph period split Then the minimum and the maximum values will be calculated for every such a period part and they all will be considered for the entire result calculation 133 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd NOTE 1 When either option By number of periods or By defined periods will be selected Query with the previous point must be used i e start of each sub period should have the actual value for that point of time Min and Max values will be calculated for each sub period and then will be used within the main c
493. tal Single N A then all values in this Expression Object will be shown as Data N A T Expression Object can make calculations with the data from the footer of the Step Table in the report If Step Table has the footer defined objects from this footer will be added to the list of ass sin cos te ano oR dynamic objects of the report Add dynamic object from report se tos ww lf i 2 el section in the format of footer lt Table Name gt lt Object name gt __ U f i i sgrtj J 9 wo and they objects will be available for calculations The footer will be added to the list of dynamic objects in the report EE RE only if the Step Table has its name defined For details on footer definition please go to the Step Table ox Cancel section of this manual S NOTES e f you add the Date and Time dynamic object it will be added in the format of dt lt object name gt e If you add the Combo Box dynamic object it will be added in the format of cb lt object name gt e If you add the Timestamp Picker dynamic object it will be added in the format of tp lt object name gt For details please see List of Dynamic Tokens section The Select Data ltem section allows user to select and add any data item from any available data source to the expression Click the Add button to add the selected item to the expression in the format i lt item name gt where i means ite
494. tatic Dynamic Report Generation in the top central part of the detail page the standard generation New Report and dynamic report generation New Dynamic Report buttons are available for each report report instance By clicking on the button needed the corresponding report report instance will be generated For details on how to configure dynamic report generation please see Dynamic Report Generator section e List of Report files the right part of the detail page presents the list of all generated report files arranged weekly monithly yearly in separate folders Click Refresh button to update the reports information Click Back button to go back to the Web Portal Welcome Page 356 NY Search Object by UUID If there is any problem with an object which is used in WEB reports in Dream Report Web portal then in order to find this object user should search for this object in the DR studio report by this object s UUID Universal Unique Identifier This UUID is located in the dmlc log log file which is stored in the folder with the unique name being generated by Dream Report at the moment of WEB Report generation To search an object in the report by its UUID right click on the report page and select Search Object by UUID from the popup menu Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd do Cut 5 Copy Object Copy Object Properties Paste Object gt Paste Object Properties Search and Replace Search Object by UUID Tag
495. te condition Remove all condition 1 Condition settings AND T OR Property i Type TEXT Condition IS NOT NULL Add fiter Remove fiter Condition Settings The Property combo box will include the list of all properties which exist in the alarm table The Type combo box will include 3 options Numeric Text and Boolean If the Numeric type is selected the Condition combo box will have the following options gt gt lt lt BETWEEN If the Text type is selected the Condition combo box will include the following options IS NOT NULL IS NULL LIKE If the Boolean type is selected the Condition combo box will include only one option After having defined the Condition user will select AND or OR and click on Add condition button When all conditions have been added user will click Add filter button and the defined filter will be added to the list of filters in the Filter Name table 320 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd NOTE If user selects filter from the list the Conditions list will be filled with the filter settings If user selects condition from the list of conditions all dialog controls will be filled according to the defined condition If user has defined the alarm filter without clicking on Add filter button and clicks OK button the filter which has not been added before will be automatically addedto the list of alarm filters 32
496. ted only when this pulse is in the top part e g E F G and I J K A negative pulse is counted only when this pulse is in the bottom part e g C D C1 and L M N Points A B and H are not counted as pulses as they haven t reached the Entry value e Peak Maximum Value calculates maximum value for positive pulses only lf a user selects this statistical function for the report then he will have to define the value for the pulse wave from the Value edit box this edit box can accept double values whole and decimal and the pulse sequence during the process in the Pulse ID edit box please see the pic below Select Statistical Function Peak Maximum Val Value Pulse ID Example on the picture above E F G is the positive pulse 1 and I J K is the positive pulse 2 If this parameter is empty the statistical function will calculate maximum for all pulses for the entire period i e just a simple maximum value over the object period NOTE Value and Pulse ID edit boxes must be able to accept dynamic parameters f e Peak Minimum Value calculates minimum values for negative pulses only lf a user selects this statistical function for the report then he will have to define the value for the pulse wave from the Value edit box this edit box can accept double values whole and decimal and the pulse sequence during the process in the Pulse ID edit box please see the pic below 140 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems
497. tems Added Data Items Item Filter is used to limit the items tags for a specific object temp i temp within the user defined properties If a user has many ale ii items tags stored and will need only some of them for this particular compound object display he will only have to lt lt define in the ltem Filter edit box the name for the items tags he may need They will be filtered according to the Item Filter name and will appear in the Available Data ltems box User can select two or more objects in the Defined Object Select Function List using the CTRL button The object will perform the Mamm O F selected calculation between the selected objects r Select Function contains a list of available statistical functions as follows il e Minimum calculates the minimum between the be esp results of the selected data objects Maximum calculates the maximum between the results of the selected data objects Average calculates the average of values from the selected data objects Sum calculates the sum of all values from the selected data objects Standard Deviation calculates standard deviation from the result values of all selected data objects The format of the result decimal precision added unit etc is described in details in the Result Representation section Compound Data oe o TT 143 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Expression Data Object Expression Data Object is an o
498. tenance Report Production Report Refinery Report Water Setpomt Anslyas Single objects SQL Tables Step Tabes Turbadty Report Web Trend Widgets To configure the schedule enable the Use Schedule box If there is time schedule defined for Apply to All and there is another time schedule defined for any other Ocean Data Systems Ltd Report Name Format Repat Tine Definition Report instances Monthly o Yearly Report Select day of fhe Select Time month 4 MM 55 Execute On F Daly or Weekly Report Set Time Mor 12 09 00 Tue on Set Time Add Wed Thu Modify Remove Exeaste Report Each hh mm ss Generate Repor On Event Repon Fie Fomat Report Preprocessor Macros User Authorization Apply template then that template will be generated twice at its own schedule and for Apply to All schedule All time schedules for every template will be saved inside the report settings structure of that selected report If the report generation schedule is defined and a new instance is added then it will have no generation schedule by default There are 2 options available to configure automatic report generation e Generation on schedule e Cyclic generation Generation on Schedule The Monthly or Yearly Report option enables users to define a specific time and day of the month or day of the year when the selected report will be automatically generated The left combo box contains two entries Monthly
499. that will be launched on a PC start If the check box Start Project Automatically When Runtime Starts is checked the runtime service will be added to the Windows startup section and will be automatically launched either in the Run as service or Run as application mode Then on a PC start the runtime service will be launched with the last launched project In the Start this project with runtime edit box a user can select with the browse button the path of the project that will be launched with the runtime service on a PC start If a user clicks on the button Set current project as startup the current project path will appear in the Start this project with runtime edit box Then on a PC start the runtime service will be launched with this current project Default time period for dynamic report generator section enables to define time period which will be displayed as default when the Dynamic Report Generator will be opened Level of log messages combo box enables configuring the level to control which message of the severity of the event that has occurred will be actually printed out to the log 2 options are available e Normal the default log level where only the events with a severity of NOTICE or greater will be logged e Debug the level where all events will be logged and its debugging messages will be very important for diagnosing configuration problems 270 D Dynamic Report Generator Dream Report Ocean Dat
500. that will be constant during report generation This allows users to create a chart combining statistical data and static reference data 203 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd In order to add manual data click on Add button enter the value timestamp data for the selected item in the Manual Data Entry browse window that will be opened If a user wants to change the data that have been entered manually he will only have to click on Edit button and make any changes in the data item selected Then select the desired color for the corresponding line enter a label for the legend if needed and click the Add button A line may have 3 possible styles which can be selected from the combo box e Line with mark default e Line e Marks only Styles are specified globally for all lines of a chart and cannot be assigned to individual lines Time Definition defines the time period for statistical calculations for this object and is described in detail in the Time Definition section of this manual Time period definition can be defined for each line separately i e each line may have its own time period which may be different from periods of other lines The period can be time based or Baich based This is described in detail in the Batch Definition section X Axis settings section allows you to configure settings for X scale Upper combo box in this section offers two modes for X scale display e Data Item this section will display
501. the History Manager stops receiving all available values by those 100 values portions If the amount of extracted values is too big the driver will extract the maximum of 200 000 values If this limit is reached all other remained values will be skipped NOTE Please note that LGH history does not include the string tags 332 NY Eurotherm Review Communication Driver Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Eurotherm Review communication driver enables connecting to one or several Review databases This driver is available in the Eurotherm folder of the Select Data Source Type section of the Communication Configuration Wizard please see the picture below Communication Cadig Wizard w ee Configure Orreer lor Selected Source hefir Drie List i i y rita a 7 4 Sy Worden iver Logical Marne i ij Aspen Di ba HTE E Anskics HE Open conmunication pobio dud 00GC_Aens HEJ Cis See j 9 Sevens Coden E EE HE Euothem z W ii Aaa E Aestine vaia m conbicders prong Mr oy A Ue DE haoa messages A UHH OF heticncal Salus UHH DOE barh moro 4 a Loaele i Sj Hitcubiaks d F mmmn F Dais Source Derogi H cdta vaie m ey ct UHH atabiri DE Cancel NOTE In Dream Report version 3 43 the Eurotherm Review driver had one driver instance for both real time and historical data access configuration Now in this new version of Dream Report the Eurotherm Review driver has three instances and should be configured
502. the System folder of the Dream Report installation The name of that file will be lt address of your OPC server gt DATA Then each time when you open the Designer studio Dream Report will not establish a new connection to the OPC server but will provide a browse from an existing text file This will enable you to edit your project while Runtime Manager is running without damaging its client connection The order of using this driver is the following 1 Add Wonderware OPC driver to your project 2 Design your project 3 Save your project and close the Designer studio 4 Start runtime Now you can also open the Designer studio while runtime is running the client connection will not be damaged In order to refresh the list of browsed items from the OPC server you have to delete manually or rename the existing browse text file close Runtime Manager and then load the Designer studio again Then the Studio will get a new browse list of items form the OPC server and create a new browse text file All the communication with the data server is done using the regular standard OPC communication protocol Wonderware OPC driver supports OPC 1 0 and OPC 2 0 standards The driver can be configured to any local or remote OPC server having flat or hierarchical architecture Driver Configuration In order to configure the Wonderware OPC driver please open the Communication Configuration Wizard dialog window select Wonderware OPC driver InTo
503. the brackets as shown in this example 73 Dream Report Generation Time Definition The Report Time Definition dialog box allows a user to define an automatic report generation schedule The Report Instances combo box contains the list of all available virtual instances for this project It will enable a user to apply and save different generation schedules to different report instances You can only enable this box if report instances for this project have already been created Otherwise this box will be disabled For more details on how to create virtual report instances please see Virtual Report Instances section If a user selects the Report Template option which is set as an original report template then the specified time schedule will be applied only to Original report template and will not be applied to any of the report instances If a user selects any of the report instances created then Use Schedule and Apply to All boxes will appear If Apply to All option is selected then the specified schedule will be applied to all instances in the project Report Settings Project Reports List Alarm Tables Automatic Statistica Tat BSacteriolooical Report Sa Graphs Batch Info Report Satch Trend Charts Osta Tables Demo Batch Report Energy Effoency Repor Equnnent avadahdity re Puorde Monthly Report GW Monthly Operating F Inckators Monthly Operabng Repo Me Graphs Report Energy Report Main
504. the date display format he can select the desired date format from the Date format combo box If that combo box doesn t contain the desired time format user can Cancel C Ay enter any desired date format inside that combo box using any free format and separators and applying the following conventions dd day of the month MM month number Mon abbreviated month name 3 letters yy short year in 2 digits Common visualization settings Display beg numbers like this 1 000 000 we 55 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd e yyyy full year in 4 digits e Month full month name in the local language After the required date format is set an example will be displayed in the Result example edit box This edit box is not editable and its purpose is only to display the result date representation Time Format Users can also select which time format will be displayed in timestamps 24 hours time representation or 12 hours AM PM time representation The default value is taken from the operating system when a new project is opened Then a user can change this setting by selecting the desired option radio button NOTE Date and time format from this dialog window will be used to display timestamps in item and alarm tables display results of the following statistical functions in Single Data Objects Timestamp of Minimum Maximum First Last values display timestamps in charts and bar graphs The timestamp for the report name f
505. them Data Source Display Data from ODBC _data Manual Values T Muhi selection tem Name FE Batch_ID Batch_ID Data Configuration Send Result Tos Tank 2 Tank 3 Tank 4 gt Timestamp Date Time Flow_data_tme_1 Flow _data_bme_1 F This Combo Bax is Obligatory visible in POF Add Def Value lt Not spedfied gt Combo Box Object will display entered values in the same order as they have been entered in the Combo Box Configuration dialog box without doing any sorting e SQL Query data display In the Data Configuration section user has to select the DSN see explanations below and specify the SQL Query which will be launched at the report start and the query result will be displayed in the combo box please see the pic below Combo Hor Configuration x Object name Default Value Assign Selection to Tag Production Feobject1 Ren Time iem HDA liem Daia Source Display Data from ODEC_data sau Query m Multi selection hem Mame Batch IO Batch 10 Data Configuration Send Result To Select DSH Process_1 z SOL Query SELECT Tank Tank2 Tank3 FROM Table 1 Timestamp Date Time Flow _deta_time_1 Flow_date_time_1 This Combe Box i Obligatory Visible in POF F Add Def value lt Not specfied gt 370 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd By default the Select DSN combo box will be empty If any DSNs have already been configured in the Project DSN Manager then user will be able to s
506. then the corresponding button in the left hand part of the Project Wizard window will be marked this way Connectivity So the buttons that correspond to each step of project creation and are located in the Project Wizard menu left hand part of the Project Wizard window will be either enabled in two ways shown above or disabled depending on whether the operation at the corresponding step has already been performed or not This way a 20 yy user will always be able to check how the process of project creation in the Project Wizard is going on what has been done what is missing and what should be done please see an example on the picture below Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Dream Report Project Creating Wiza hd Project Name i Dream Report can generate this report on ewent a ul ilf a real time tag value changes and its value fits into the pre rConnectraity F i defined condition the report will be automatically generated Data Archming t Batch Dehinibor a aad Do you want this report to be automatically generated on a tag value change event Reports E tes Ji No Gao u Also if you will need to come back to re configure or check project configuration at any step of project creation you will be able to do it just by clicking on the corresponding button in the left hand part of the Project Wizard window menu Project Wizard will open the step that you need 21 D Project Name
507. til midnight today Using start date you can count 1 day not from midnight to midnight but from and to the time specified in the Start Date Time field E g if the start time is 07 00 00 then Last 1 day period will be accounted not from midnight last day until midnight today but from 07 00 00 last day until 07 00 00 today If a user specifies last or current day week then only Start time is available If a user specifies period Last or Current month or quarter or year then both Start Date and Time will be available e f you select Absolute or relative period definition in the Select time period option combo box then you must specify the start and end time for the period electiime penod option Selecting Relative or Absolute date time mode allows user to define all objects in ihe report based on relative or absolute tme stan and end time separately Start of report period End of report period Absolute Debe Time ki Absolube Date Time z yisjon e Das anejo w Dave Seong hh mm ss back Gianag hhmm back The Start and End of report period can be defined using four options 37 2 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Absolute date time Relative date time Absolute date Relative time Relative date Absolute time If the absolute option is selected then specify the calendar date and time If the relative option is selected then specify the time offset i e a number of days or hours minutes and
508. time period User can also specify the same batch ID both for lt StartBatchID gt and lt EndBatchID gt then the report will be generated for that 1 specified batch ID Example generate exe Energy Report ba Prod Batch 10 9937 10 9937 will generate the report for batch ID 10 9937 using Prod_Batch batch definition NY User Interface Mode In the user interface window as shown on the picture a user can define the period and type of report generation Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Dynamic Report c 3 Avatable Reports Report Targets re G3 Batch reports lse ongna time period 3 Energy Report examples Define tme period 1 Energy Efficiency Report Repot Energy Generate 4 m 25 Select List of Tags for Replacement Current Status Absolute Date Time rapot iatus Date 7 5 2012 v Last Not Generated Generated 1 40 46 PM H MM SS Neat i Oad tion Not Defined End of period a Funtime is saving Absokte Date Time atus Date 8 8 2012 Queue status PML 4 RAES 1 40 46 Sd HMM SS Generating First from the Available reports list select the report you will need to generate If you wish to dynamically modify the time period for the report for the entire report generation specify a new report period in the Define time period section For complete description of the time period definition please go to the Time Period Definition section of this manual If you wish to gen
509. tion Time period can be defined in 4 ways You can e define the start and end of time period e select a periodic interval e g hourly e use a batch definition for batch process reporting e define timestamp manually is possible only in dynamic WEB reports Time Period Definition has 5 options to define time in Dream Report Fixed Period Absolute or relative period definition Batch based Calculated time period and Manual Input e f you select Fixed Period from the Define time period combo box you will have another combo box from which to select a fixed period as seen below Define time period Fired Period F Last ki monthis r Start Date and Time Duration Day Time week s 3 140000 Last means previous complete i e if the current time is 14 32 then the Last hour will be 13 00 14 00 Current means the incomplete in progress period If the current time is 14 32 then the Current hour will be 14 00 14 32 Combining a mode Lasi Currenit time unit and number of units you can compile any time period i e Last 3 years Current 6 months etc If the check box Duration is checked then you must specify how long the duration of the fixed period will be and it will modify appropriately the end time Example If today is April 29 and you specify the fixed period Last 2 months and Duration 1 month then Start period will be defined by Last 2 months i e Feb and March i e start of the perio
510. tion 5S 7a 1k NOTE This example of the single data objects in the generated report demonstrates different single data objects with different statistical functions selected like First Value Last Value Maximum Value Minimum Value etc with different time periods defined The results are represented in the Free table format 142 N Compound Data Object Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Compound Data Object is a statistical field which performs analytical calculations between the results of two or more other statistical or analytical fields in the given report To add this object please click on the Compound Object button second from the left on the Report Designer Studio Elements toolbar Mark in the workspace the rectangle where desired data will be displayed za Object Name must be a unique logical name which will be Compound Data Object Definition x used in further work with that object within the project The Compound Date Object Defirdion object name can be up to 64 characters long Only alphanumeric characters and _ are allowed The first Object Name Temperature_survey character cannot be a number Object Description is a label to help users quickly Description understand purpose of the object The description can be up to 256 characters long All characters are allowed Defined Object List Defined Object List contains a list of all statistical objects in Item Fiter temp the report Available Data I
511. tion dialog window NOTE If you need to configure the same driver more than once then after having configured it the first time you ll just need to click in the Select Data Source Type field on any other driver and then go back to the driver that you need to configure 318 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Wonderware Historical Alarms Driver WWALM Historical Alarms driver of Dream Report allows connecting to a local or remote SQL Server database WWALMDB with Wonderware alarms make alarms extraction and provide them for reporting To add this driver to the project please select WWALM Historical Alarms driver from the list of Wonderware history access drivers in the Wonderware folder of the Select Data Source Type section please see the picture below Commurecation Configuration Wizzard x Sealed Dale pace Type Configues Deye for Selected Source Defined Dirree List D Irial Direer Logacal H I Word gal H sme E Applicaton Serva focal ot senate Driver Logical Name BB Anaiptics e s Histosan Aut E InTouch hetoncal values LGH Hes Diiic dsa S Intouch local of aage ra ra FS auja O EET Jalink Pioiood over TEPAF E Ee m porch daa WALH DE birer m 4 mi Dipan Gone sie prod oie Liezi Ewothem Loye i Pal tiatecFa D or E marmo F TT p Data Source Descipicnm Whol bd Histone al Aims Ok Cara WWALM Historical Alarms driver configuration If WWALM Historica
512. tion there is no time period to be configured The selected Statistical function will be calculated for the selected data item separately for each row of the table Example if you define a table from 12 00 until 15 00 with 1 hour for each step row then your defined Statistical object will be calculated 3 times for time periods 12 00 13 00 13 00 14 00 14 00 15 00 for 3 rows of the output table Also in the Appearance section of the Step Table such options for the data definition as Visible and Write back are not available because they cannot be applied to a step table NOTE When using the following Pulse Analysis statistical functions Peak Minimum Value or Peak Maximum Value it s important to note that column value e g column ID will be available as dynamic token parameter for the statistical function input parameter Pulse ID in the format c lt column name gt e Compound Data Select this menu to define the statistical calculation for the selected column When you select this menu When you select this menu the Data Definition dialog window will be opened It is totally identical to the Compound Data Object Definition window and is described in details in the Compound Data Object section Also in the Appearance section of the Step Table such options for the data definition as Visible and Write back are not available because they cannot be applied to a step table e Expression Data Select this menu to define calcula
513. tions for the selected column When you select this menu the data Definition dialog window will be opened It is totally identical to the Expression Data Object Definition window and is described in details in the Expression Data Object section Also in the Appearance section of the Step Table such options for the data definition as Visible and Write back are not available because they cannot be applied to a step table e Clear will erase data definition of the column e Edit will edit the statistical data that have already been entered in that column type Step Table enables you to add a Footer This footer can have multiple lines which can include static text table start time table end time Expression or Compound data objects NOTE The data from the footer can be used in Expression Object calculations If Step Table has the footer defined this footer will be added to the list of dynamic objects of the report in the Expression Object Add dynamic object from report section in the format of f lt Step Table Object Descriptions and its data will be available for calculations The footer will be added to the list of dynamic objects in the report only if the Step Table has object description defined For details on Expression Object calculations please go to the Expression Object section of this manual The Font Properties controls enable you to set different font properties for the table title table header and the displayed data
514. to all template objects If Set this time period for all objects check box is checked then user can specify time period definition which will be set for all objects which will be added to the report from the template For details on time period definition please see Time Period Definition section If this check box will be unchecked then time period replacement will be disabled and all template objects will be added to the report with their original time definitions Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Once the selected template is added to the report each template element will be available for editing as an independent object Further report modifications will not affect its report template design and also further template modifications will not affect design of that report Moving reports from one project to another If you need to move the report from one project to another please do the following 1 Save the report that you want to move as a report template 2 Load the project where you want to move this report 3 Define a new report and apply to it that saved report template NOTE Reports can be also saved as templates by clicking on the DR Main Button in the upper left part of the Dream Report Designer Studio please see the picture below 240 NY Tools Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Tag Dictionary The Tag Dictionary module enables users to create tag dictionary for multiple reports With th
515. to download the _ installation oof NET Framework 3 5 SP1 http www microsoft com downloads details aspx familyid ab99342f 5d1a 413d 8319 1da479ab0d7 amp displaylang en D 3 Open the Windows Features window from the Control Panel gt Programs and Features gt Internet Information Services on your PC and install the following components please see the picture below wil Windows Features oe Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Turn Windows features on or off To turn a feature on select its check box To turn a feature off clear its check box A filled box means that only part of the feature r turned on di ActiveX Installer Service g dd Games Fi Indexing Service EL Internet Information Services a Eld FTP Publishing Service E p Web Management Tools ap 056 Management Compatibility Eur 05 6 Management Console Fi 056 Scripting Tools F 156 WMI Compatibility ih 1S Metabase and 056 configuration compatibility OS Management Console 05 Management Scripts and Tools _ 0S Management Service Ml World Wide Web Services i Microsoft NET Framework 3 0 aE Microsoft Message Queue MSMO Server a Print Services T Remote Differential Compression m Removable Storage Managerment Fb RIP Listener Mj Simple TCPIP services Le echo daytime ete SNMP feature E d Tablet PC Optional Components W Telnet Client MJ Telnet Server Eji TFTP Client 4 Complete installation of the IIS and restart computer
516. to import data from data blocks please check the Do not import data blocks check box Then both radio buttons will be disabled In the Excel layout configuration section first select timestamp format in a data block in the Timestamp format in data block combo box This combo box has 3 entries Time Date and Date and Time Each of them sets the timestamp format which will be used next to each value in data blocks The default timestamp format value is Time Time format combo box enables to select time format and has 9 entries hh hh am pm mm hh mm hh mm am pm hh mm ss hh mm ss am pm hh mm ss msec hh mm ss msec am pm The default time format value is hh mm ss Date format combo box enables to select date format for the values timestamp This combo box has exactly the same entries and functions as the date format combo box Set Date Format in the Project Settings Localization section in the Dream Report studio In the combo box Timestamps start from the cell please select where timestamp for all block values will be located If an Excel file has the vertical layout type please select column name from the combo box which will be filled with column names A B If an Excel file has horizontal orientation then the text will be changed to Timestamp is located in the row combo box which will be filled with the table row names 1 2 3 If the timestamp
517. to select existing filters for specific objects as needed The left part of the window List of defined alarm filters is used to define a new alarm filter or edit the properties of an existing alarm filter The Name field should contain any unique logical name Adding a new filter with the same name as an existing filter will replace the existing one The filter name can be up to 64 characters long and can contain spaces No wildcard characters are allowed Description allows users to quickly understand the use of the object The am Manager x description can be up to 256 characters U5 Stes alarm titers Alarm Fiker List Hane Hame long Any characters can be used AA aa All hw _Alarme gi r eciption Add Fiker Priority range specifies the priority ae range of alarms which will be included Modify in the filter The Source combo box contains a _Delete complete list of alarm sources in the aasa project If external history server is defined then the Source combo box will Priority include alarm history drivers defined in From To the project a sed If Dream Report History is defined then the Source combo box will include a list 2 Cances of real time alarm sources Each filter can only be applied to a single data source To add a filter click the Add Filter button The Alarm filter manager will get all data from the filter definition part and add appropriate filters to the Alarm Filter L
518. to the project database When the entire project is saved each report will be saved only if there have been any changes in this report The Version control group box contains controls for configuration of the version control management The Select report combo box will display the name of the report that a user needs to log comments to The Current version combo box will show the ID of the current report version and will contain the list of all available versions If a user needs to roll back to the specific version ID he can select the version that he needs Then Dream Report will automatically read the comment for this version if it exists and put it into the Version comment edit box Then a user needs to click on the button Roll back and the message box Roll back operation was completed successfully will pop up If there have been any changes in the report then first the message box Do you want to save the report before roll back will appear Then the Report Designer 65 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd will load the report layout exactly as it was saved with the version selected The current version ID will change and the report will be logged into the database with the changed ID version Example If a user selects Temperature report in the Select report combo box and with the current version ID 6 in the Current version combo box he selects version 5 and clicks Roll back then if the roll back
519. tomatic Statistical Table AST is a table object which allows you to quickly create and modify a table in a few clicks Select a list of tags select a list of statistical functions for each of them and define a common time period Click on the Automatic Statistical Table button on the statistical object toolbar in the Dream Report Designer Studio Draw an area for your table in the report workspace The AST Data Definition dialog window will be opened Automatic Statistical Table Data Definition In the Get Data From dialog mC box select which history type will be a used to extract data from Dream Cream Report History External History Server Report History or External History Data Definition Oetelten Name Description Correction f A Select Functon Capton a 123 Server Serau e Z First Velue ca Tt To add data items tags to the a a Sc a A j Selected List table click on the Edit E Timestamp ot Last Vake f Teme lat i C Orrert Value gO Curent List button and the Select Data E Maxaman FJ Mx Items dialog window will be opened Ga ee ae e f Dream Report History E Tmesianp of Mina Vako E Tien R O itoya go regal radio button will be enabled anan ae EZ Average Bo Ave then the combo box Select sos Reuse Tiape ea oe Data Source will contain a enoed 5 eeo iiaiai Zoar list of data access drivers A Logged Value Courter A LoggedvaCart defined in the project L1 SOA Sanita a u tme period e
520. ts unless you select authorize them 88 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Advanced PDF Security Users have a possibility to increase security of PDF reports created by Dream Report by activating and configuring Advanced PDF Security Click on the button Settings just below the PDF check box in Report Seitings gt Report File Format gt Report Target window The following dialog window will be opened x Activate POF Security Insert Password Inset Owner Passveord LEET LELET Confiem Password Confirm Owner Password LEEI LELET Encryption Level G40 Bit Encryption 128 Bit Encryption Pearnassion L_ No Printing No Changing Document No Copying of Extrachon No Adding or Changing Form Fields When a user checks the Activate PDF Security check box all dialog window controls will become enabled PDF security configuration dialog provides two passwords User Password to open read the PDF document and Owner Password This will allow users to change the preset permissions to allow printing editing and copying pdf document content Users must also select the encryption mode in the Encryption Level section There are 2 encryption modes available 40 bit and 128 bit When this mode option is selected all generated PDF reports will be generated using the selected encryption mode Permissions determine which kind of access the user will get while opening the PDF document There are 4 options available No P
521. tures to remove oi oa Remove Remove all installed features If you want to remove Dream Report from your computer choose the Remove option click Next and the uninstall process will start Be aware that not all folders will be removed during the uninstall process Directories that include all projects developed on that computer will remain by default Project folder 11 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd License and Template directories and all their content will NOT be erased in order to save your existing license if any and also to save your custom clipart images if you have any By selecting the Modify option the Installation Components window will appear This window will include all installed features as checked and all not installed yet as unchecked Dream Report InstallShield Wizard i f Select Features features setup will install Select the features you want to install and deselect the features you do not want to install Dre am Report Descrphior E System Files Dream Report is a unique M 7 Dream Report Designer dynamic reporting solution F Clipdrts Integrating one user friendly g5 l environment for automation al H Connectivity Drivers processes reports and device management M w Templates j Embedded Web Fortal 0 00 MB of space required on the drive 3 of space available on the drive Upgrading existing installation to a new version The r of Dre
522. uch as e create a new project e open any existing project e save the current project e exit the Studio with the current project opened please see the picture below 46 NY Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd j Projects Opened Recentl f New Report i oe 1 Production drpj a a Cpen Penner 2 C ODS energy energy drpj Save Project 3 Production_Users drpj 4 0ODS Demo Demo drpj A Save Project As F By clicking on the DR Main Button in the Dream Report Logger Studio users can perform only some of the operations enabled in the DR Logger Studio with projects such as e open any existing project e save the current project e exit the Studio with the current project opened Projects Opened Recently h Jew Report d 1 Production drpj T fi 7 Open Project C ODS energy energy drpj I Save Project Production_Users drpj 4 0 0DS Demo Demo drpj NI Save Project As F d Print F F Exit Database Configuration Database Configuration tab enables users to configure databases for data and alarm logging within the entire project Data can be logged either to the Dream Report default database or to any open database using the ODBC interface 47 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd To open Database Configuration dialog window click on the command button Data Base Definition on the Project ribbon ic
523. uch local or remote node using FS Gateway OPC or Application Server local or remote from the Wonderware folder of the Data Source Selection tree please see the picture below 322 NY Limmen Lediga Wiad Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Saleact Dats Source Tppe HHJ intemal a wondensare Conie Die tor Selected Source Defined Drees List Dreer Logical Hare aE anria Sanner ea of ieee Driver Logical Mamie Hi A aia Mishoo p orc idy P OEC Alami e EPE Deine i Configure ae am Aluma i Bsn hes amp Intouch hiona aang LG A WALH Hrbo Alsms E Aspertect E Upen commuretaion pia HHE Cist 4 ij Giese HJ Eucihem Hi Loaec E kiitbeti b S E rar ror 4 m b Dala Source Descipion InTouch local of remote rode using FS Gateway OPC DE Lance Click on Configure button The OPC driver configuration window will be opened Select OPC Server x OPC server secured access Man OPC Server C Backup OPC Server Login admin C Server requires single client connection Password onnee Computer Name SSlocalhost Browse Network select Server Matikon OPC Simulation 1 Test Connection Refresh Server List This dialog window has 2 options radio buttons Main OPC Server and Backup OPC Server that allow OPC driver to work in a hot backup mode and automatically switch from one OPC server to another in case of communication error being able to connect to the secured OPC servers e lf the
524. ult when a user will add a new object to the report 365 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Format enables users to select specific format of date and time for each Timestamp Picker This combo box has 3 options available Date and time Date and Time The Visible in PDF option controls whether this Timestamp Picker object will be displayed in the PDF report or not If this object is defined as invisible then it will be initialized with its default value and then all data input objects that will be based on that object will get its default value 05 03 2011 T400 04 Example of the Timestamp Picker object in the runtime mode Hyperlink Hyperlink is a dynamic interactive object which enables users to add a text and turn it into a hyperlink and is available ONLY in WEB reports please also see Manual Data Entry section To add this object click on the command button Hyperlink on the Web Elements ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar in the Dream Report Designer Studio menu see pic below Pr F Home Connectivity Project Web Elements l a i 31 Action Combo Timestamp Button Box Picker eb Form Elements Draw a rectangle in the workspace where the output data will be displayed The following Hyperlink Configuration dialog box will be opened Hyperdink Configuration x Hyperlink Task options Set URL to open web hyperlink O Select Report to be loaded Set Rep
525. ult decimal precision If the calculated object Single Data Object Compound Expression object which includes this widget already has decimal precision defined in the Result Representation section that decimal precision will be inherited and set in the widget dialog If a user changes it here then it will be changed in the Result Representation dialog as well In the Properties section specify font and background settings for different display parts of that widget objects exactly the same way as it works in other objects 155 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd In the Color Grades section if a user wishes to color some value segments on a scale he can specify some value ranges and set color for those value ranges If this is done then this color will be used as a scale background for this value range on top of the main scale background If option Smooth color transition is checked then on the border between different colored segments there will be no sharp borders but color will smoothly transit from one color to another 156 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Alarm Filter Manager Alarm Filter Manager is used to limit the alarms included in calculations for a specific object within the user defined properties A Dream Report project has one global per project list of alarm filters which is accessible from any object within any report in the project The purpose of this window is to define alarm filters and
526. ultiple combo boxes with this function defined 373 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd e Show Batch IDs List display If this option is selected its configuration will have the following design Combo Box Configuration ut Object mame Defa Value Assign Selechon to Tag Cal Production Feobject1 Real Time tem HOA tem Daia Source Display Data from ODBC data Show Batch IDs List r Mult selecion tem Name Batch ID Data Configuration Send Result Tos Select Batch Definition below Select Batch Definition fram another Combe bax fi i Batch Timestamp Daie Time Flow data timed Flow datetime 1 J This Combo Box is Obligatory Wisible in PDF Add Def Value lt Not specified gt The Data Configuration section will have 2 radio buttons Select Batch Definition below and Select Batch Definition from another Combo box Both options define the source for retrieving and building the Batch ID list If Select Batch Definition below option is selected then the combo box will be filled with the list of the actual existing batch definitions defined in the project If Select Batch Definition from another Combo box option is selected then the combo box below that radio button will be filled with the list of all web combo box objects defined in this report User will be able to select a web combo box object which will have the Batch Definition function described above in t
527. umbers like this This parameter defines whether the result will be formatted with separated groups of digits for better readability where a digit grouping symbol will be placed between each of digits either 2 or 3 digits Example If result number is 31415926535 and digit grouping symbol is lt space gt then the displayed number will be 31 415 926 535 56 yy Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Project Parameters Internal Project Parameters functionality enables Dream Report to generate reports with passing parameters for report generation thus significantly improving filtering capabilities and making them more flexible Report parameters are a set of pre defined internal variables which can take data from report objects while generating report or from a command line report parameters can be of 3 types Numeric Text and Date Time To configure internal parameters for the project user can click on Configure Project Parameters button in the General dialog of Project Settings see Project Settings General section of this manual Or user can click on the command button Project Parameters Definition on the Project ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar in the Dream Report studio menu see pic below eee orat a a ey Home Connectivity Project Web Elements Tools Runtime f Ai fi ce lg aG UF T Edit project Version General Data Base Web Set Log Hotbackup Local
528. und will pop up You will then have to type the complete driver name Simulation 1 to be searched The same mechanism should be applied when a user needs to replace tag items in the Project Tag Dictionary Select Data Item to be replaced by section 243 D Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Setpoint Stability Analysis Setpoint analysis is a special module which allows smart analyzing of thermal and other processes where the process is based on a setpoint stability analysis It allows automatic detection of the stability periods entry and exit points of those stability periods To use Setpoint Analysis user has to create setpoint definitions Then the analysis result can be used in a chart and in statistical functions You can create setpoint definitions in the Setpoint analysis configuration window To open it click on the command button Setpoint analysis configuration on the Tools ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar either in the Dream Report Logger Studio or Dream Report Designer Studio menu see pic below Tools Runtime vod E a Custom Virtual Report Report UHH DSN Database archiving Aggregated Setpoint analysis _ configuration Archive Import Instances filters Import Tool Manager configuration Data Filter Tools The following dialog window will be opened Setpiem mayai cond urate z Daina cats Gat daia ban T Sahat Wore Waha Ligar Tolkki A Dsm Report Hinton Dhaan FOOL i 2 External Hinir Jarna Di
529. ur operating system you will get the message box Can t configure IIS Web portal is not enabled You will have first to install IIS and then configure IIS for details please see Installation Tips NOTE 3 If you upgrade Web Portal to Dream Report version 4 2 when you click Configure IIS button you will have to agree to save the backup of your Web Portal configuration Please click 264 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Yes in the IIS configurator window which will pop up asking Do you want to back up the actual content of your project web files NOTE 4 IIS should be enabled on the PC before installation of MS SQL Server 2005 in Windows XP so that the different MS SQL components can be used as a Service Help combo box has 2 options which allow a Direct access to the online Dream Report help documentation Help option b Complete information about the installed Dream Report and the license i e Dream Report version number license type license ID company name number of tags and concurrent web clients used in this product About RMC option NOTE If the license is upgraded its data will be automatically updated by the Runtime Manager but in the About RMC section of the Help combo box this updated information won t be shown To see the updated license data in the About RMC section user will need to reboot the computer The list of reports will be displayed in the Available reports list as
530. ure the same driver more than once then after having configured it the first time you ll just need to click in the Select Data Source Type field on any other driver and then go back to the driver that you need to configure e If Runtime Manager runs as service then the OPC connection will work over DCOM and the OPC Server may not be fast enough to supply to the OPC client Dream Report the requested amount of data If such weak OPC driver performance may occur in order to improve it a user will have to set Runtime Manager as an application for details on Runtime mode settings please see Runtime Configuration section of this manual e lf OPC DeltaV driver runs as service Runtime Configuration this service has to be set and be running only by the user who has an authorized right to access data from the OPC DeltaV driver 311 N Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Modbus Communication Driver Modbus driver enables connecting to one or several devices which are able to communicate using Modbus protocol receive real time values and write values back to a Modbus compliant device Modbus driver can be selected from the Open communication protocols folder in the Select Data Source Type section in the Communication Configuration Wizard dialog window Communication Configuration Wizard Selec Dela Source Type aH Inema a J wondene a Sspenach SF Open communication protocols H BAChal CSW A Excel Data Import maki
531. ures 30 2 Pumps Stopped FT Tenp Grow 30 9 Temp Fine 200217306 en 0011 3 06 S 30 9 Valve closed 11 12 l3 730 5 Pumps Stop i4 13 L lr is 10 30 7 Bat ch in Progress 30 6 Tank Cleanning to gall Valves Closed 30 Prodcution runs 30 8 Meter Stopped 20 9 Prodcurion in FPOGP ss 30 6 Process Finished 30 a Production Engs Ocean Data Systems Ltd PETET 1 4 06 7 00 174 06 8 00 1 4 06 Tia 7 Production Ends 1 4 06 8 0051 74 06 P 00174700 8 20 G Production Starts 174706 6 00 174 06 LOO 17 47 06 9 30 5 Tank Low Restrictions and components for alarms information in CSV Text files Please take into consideration the following restrictions and components which have to be included in alarms information in CSV Text files 1 Header has to be included 2 Column delimiter must be different from for example It is also recommended to avoid to the fact that in some cases it correspond to the decimal point separator 3 Every row of data must include Timestamp in the corresponding column Example Original files can t include the following lines Coolant Temp 20 40 Deg C 0 00 38 It has to be replaced by 00 00 58 1 Sep 2007 Coolant Temp 20 40 Deg C 0 00 38 4 If you have several different sets of CSV files and you want to define several corresponding instances of CSV Text driver please make sure that each set is located in a separate folder
532. urpose of use The DRG can generate predefined reports for the currently running project changing report definition properties at runtime such as the time period item and data source All dynamic modifications of the report properties will be done only for that specific report execution and will not be saved in the report layout If you have a running project containing a daily report and you generate this report using DRG applying a new period of 1 hour it will generate an hourly report file from it The original report will continue to run and generate daily reports as before DRG has 2 working modes silent and with user interface Silent Mode 271 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd If a user runs generation command with additional command line parameters DRG will not open any user interface and will execute the command in a silent mode i e pass command to the runtime manager to generate the selected report for the specified period The Command line has the following available formats generate This argument will say that generation request will be performed The following parameters are possible name Report name instance Report instance name fixPeriod This argument will indicate that the fixed time period is used absPeriod This argument will indicate that the absolute time period is used relPeriod This argument will indicate that the relative time period is used batchRelPeriod This argument will indicate that the
533. user has selected lt Not Used gt in the Time combo box and the Timestamp Picker selected in the Date combo box has only Date format then the current time hh ss mm will be used as default time For details on how to configure Timestamp Picker objects please go to the Timestamp Picker section of this manual NOTE If objects with the Manual time input option will be used in static PDF Excel reports where manual input is not possible then the default values of the selected Timestamp Pickers will be taken for calculation 166 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Correction Factor Correction Factor is a simple expression which can be added to any statistical object with the selected data item If a statistical object contains several data items then the correction factor can be set for every data item separately lf the correction factor is set for a data item in a statistical object then when retrieving value of that data item for that object first of all each retrieved value from a database will be re calculated applying the correction factor Then the statistical functions will be performed on re calculated values If a chart is displayed on item with the correction factor then first all values will be re calculated applying correction factor and then the chart will display re calculated data Correction factor must have a clear syntax lt operator gt lt value gt where operator can be or or o
534. user will double click either into the Data Source column or into the Item Name column the cell will be opened for manual text editing In the top right corner of the tag dictionary dialog window there is a button Print If a user will click on it it will open Windows print dialog box Select printer or the file and print the list of Source item names and their descriptions Report Tag Dictionary lf this report has been created from the report template using tag dictionary then it will be saved for this report as well When a user will open Tag dictionary from the context menu it will be filled with the relevant information If this report doesn t have tag dictionary information yet then this window will have the list of all tags used in the project User can enter the best fit description for every such a tag Tag dictionary will be saved into the encrypted XML file with the name of report and extension tdi This file will contain the list of source name item name description and for every such an entry the list of references of objects where this tag is used If you apply report template to the report and tag dictionary is not empty then this file will be automatically created Search and Replace Users can change tag items in the tag dictionary clicking Search and Replace button in the top right hand part of the Tag dictionary window The following Search and Replace box will pop up 242 Dream Report
535. values as BB Process a Simulation Driver i Configure alaha E Process H wiondenware BB Process Setpoint H Aspartech z Wicana Open communication protocols scabs Citect 4 Siemens Eurotherm HQ Loytes HE Mitsubishi 4 Emerson Aue Iniumaigue A J Techno Trade Tie Winer i Data Sowos Denciphor Yab marual dined Cones The first browse level will be the list of data source vendors All first level browse will be displayed as folders NOTE In Dream Report version 3 43 each driver when configured had only one driver instance with one two or three subdivisions according to the types of data to access for configuration i e the driver could have maximum three options available for configuration Data Driver real time values Alarm Driver and History Driver Example The ODBC History Access driver had one instance both for historical data and historical alarms configuration The Eurotherm Review driver had one instance for both real time and historical data access configuration 281 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Now in this new version of Dream Report each driver has separate instances for each type of data to access real time alarms historical values which should be configured separately Example The ODBC driver has now two instances and should be configured separately as ODBC historical values for historical data or and ODBC historical alarms for historical alarms The Eurother
536. verlap of values in the list of ranges e g ranges 0 10 and 8 15 then the first found Suitable range will be considered 147 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Batch Definition Batch Definition enables users to define a rule to dynamically calculate time periods for report generation If a report is for a batch process process loop where the exact time period and duration are not known in advance use the batch mechanism of Dream Report Click on the command button Batch definition either on the Connectivity ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar or on the Batch Definition button also located on the left vertical toolbar either in the Dream Report Logger Studio or Dream Report Designer Studio menu see pic below Connectivity Project Web Element DE le lA Dbatch Add item Add alarm definition onfiguration group group ectivity configuration Contiguratia The Batch Definition dialog window will be opened see pic on the right To add a new batch definition click on the New button and Patch definition a new batch definition will be added to the list Defined batches Name Energy Temperature Tesnpersture Description In the Name edit box you can edit the name of the batch field it will update the name in the batch list automatically The Description edit box can contain a brief explanation of the batch field tae Each batch process is marked by a unique ID and this ID
537. w Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd hem definition Them Name React Item type M Description Real Discrete String a cone First configure the name Item Name type Item Type and description of the item tag which will be extracted Click OK and the defined item tag will be added to the Items Configuration definition please see the picture below m i a WW SuiteLink Configuration Itema configuration Name Type Description Blet Integer Integer i I i 4 a F C met dds eit Remove E As soon as any item has been defined users will be able to add more definitions edit or remove them in the WW SuiteLink Configuration window Importing Tags In order to receive item tag values from the Wonderware product via SuiteLink connection click on Import button Items tags importing will be defined by the type of Wonderware application which you have configured before 329 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd If you have defined the type of Wonderware application as View i e InTouch driver then when you click on Import button and select an appropriate folder with InTouch project the Tag Browser window will be opened please see the picture below TagBrowser e So Tag Names Es Tagname Tag Type Access Name Alarm Group 7 EA SApplicationChanged System Real EJ SApplicatonVersion System Real E SChangePassword System Discrete
538. wever the report generation will not wait until the macro execution is completed The macro will be executed asynchronously e After report generation the macro will be executed each time after the report is processed e On Event the macro event condition should be specified source item and the condition itself The condition value must be a numeric value Each time the item value meets the defined condition the macro will be executed This option is independent of report generation 87 Dream Report User Authorization This window enables you to define access rights to each specific report for specific users groups This option is also applied for the Runtime Manager and in the Web Portal lf user management is defined in the project then you have to specify which users are authorized to have access to each report Authorized access to a report means that this user will see that report in the list of reports in the Runtime Management Console window will be able to select and generate that report open the PDF file for this report and enable disable automatic report generation lf a user is not authorized to have access to a report i e in the User Authorization section of this report settings a check box of that user is unchecked then after making login to the Runtime manager or to the Web Portal that unauthorized report will not be displayed in the list of reports It will be hidden from unauthorized users
539. will be used for manual data entry Every parameter name is a free string which has to be unique It will be seen afterwards as a Data Item Name User can also add a description to every parameter which will give a hint to a user what the meaning of that parameter is As soon as the list is complete user can click on OK and all the design part will be finished Then click Add button and the Manual Driver will be configured for your project It will also be automatically added to the Defined Drivers List Logging manual item values As soon as the manual items have been defined a user should configure the conditions for recording these items into the Dream 253 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd 4 Open the Dream Report Logger Studio and either click on the command button Add Item Group on the Connectivity ribbon icon on the horizontal toolbar in the Dream Report Logger Studio menu or right click on Add item group in the left top part of the Logger Studio and select Add item group from the context menu The Item Group Definition dialog box will be opened 5 In the Group Source combo box General dialog box select the Manual driver which has already been configured in the Communication Configuration Wizard from which manual data items will be included into the group 6 The Add Items button will open a new dialog box Select Data ltems containing the complete list of all the manual data items which have been defined fo
540. with the relevant tag information The column Description will be empty User can click or double click into the Description column and the field will be opened for inserting or editing a text with the logical description of this tag All the list of source tag names and their descriptions will be saved inside the report template file together with the reference information on the objects and the names defined Tag Dictionary Configuration 241 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd lf this dialog is opened from the existing report template which has tag dictionary defined then it will be filled with tag descriptions from the template Data Source and Item Name columns will contain a small button browse When a user clicks on it the following Data Item Picker dialog window will appear Data Item Picker x Select Data ltem Dream Report History External History Server Data Source ODBC historical values ltem Hame Bw Quen Temp Cancel e fa user will click OK in this item selection dialog window the source name and the item name will be set into the list control The source type Dream Report history or External History Server will be saved for each entry separately as well e If a source name or and item name is defined in the list control and user calls the item selection dialog window then the Select Data Item window will be opened with the existing selection filled in e If a
541. word confirmation edit boxes will be disabled If you click on Delete button all selected users will be deleted If you press on Delete button on the keyboard then one or several selected users in the list will be deleted as well List of Groups When you add a user group you just type a new group name in the edit box below the list control click on Add button and new user group will be added to the list When you select one or several users in the list you can drag and drop selected users to the required group When you select any group in the list it will immediately set selected all the users defined in that group in the users list You can click on any user entry to select unselect user for the selected group Windows Authentication This section allows to get users groups list s from Windows and to include Windows users and user groups into the Dream Report authentication configuration Below the users list there is a check box Use windows authentication If this check box is not checked then the button Configure will be disabled As soon as a user enables that check box the Configure button will become enabled and the standard Windows Select User or Group dialog box will be opened Select User or Group Select this object type Object Types Erom this locations Enter the object name to select examples TANIA Help ssistant Check Names 61 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd
542. work based on the Excel template which include some logical operations or macros have to ensure that MS Excel is installed on the PC where the project is running 80 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Email Configuration The Email dialog box allows configuring all settings related to the email server and to setup a list of email recipients who will receive emails with generated report files The Email server login information and the mail recipient list will be saved globally for your project but the list of the selected mail recipients will be saved for each report separately The Dream Report email engine can send emails via any SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol server To send automatic emails you need to have only a network connection and properly set SMTP attributes No additional email software e g MS Outlook is needed In the Mail server login information section you need to specify your SMTP server login Sel repat type for emading HCE POF Adobe Acrobal information Enca EA POF Adobe Acrobat Mad terve login rionmation Emal sardar SMTP Server specify the address of your SMITE Server amip gmail coms admina companp com SMTP server If you use Internet email service User name admin that information is usually specified at the email Pasiword eseese i Auubomgled ispat delwery provider web site TEJI Email ben User name specify user name to your email The generated reporls ae based on th
543. x Timestamp Format Select Timestamp Format dd mm ypyy AMS Specify Custom Fonai Description Column Prorty Column UTE Tire in Uze Gained eaiacia Alarm File s Location Configuration Alarm File s Location section enables users to provide full path to CSV Text files location from where alarms will be converted into the Dream Report database please see the picture above In Select Folder to locate Alarm File s section please provide location of files from where alarms are going to be exported into the Dream Report database Specify Static File Name s option is used if end user has only specific files to be scanned for alarms export In this dialog he can specify only one file However by editing an xml configuration file it is possible to add several files File Extension is by default configured for CSV files Another type of file extension can be edited manually lf Delete File After Processing option is selected then CSV Text files will be removed after processing Alarms CSV Text Columns Mapping Columns from CSV Text files that include information about alarms have to be mapped according to the Dream Report structure User has to specify columns that will correspond to the start time of an alarm acknowledge time of an alarm end time of an alarm alarm description and priority please see the picture below 299 NY Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd File Format Configuration Start Date Column Start Time C
544. xcel check box is checked and CSV check box is unchecked If Excel option is checked then the report will be generated in Excel format If CSV option is checked the report will be generated using the same name as in Excel format but will have csv extension Both report file formats Excel and CSV will be available for report generation All values will be recorded in a regular text file instead of Excel format with a separator taken from the operating system The default separator CSV delimiter will be Search a cell The number of cells displayed in the Excel Wizard dialog windows is limited to 100 000 cells in either direction To select any cell you may type the cell address e g A100 in the edit box in the top left part of the dialog window next to the report list and click on the button with the arrow gt Then the required cell will be selected The Export Table Titles and Export Table Headers options define the export mode of the table objects e Export Table Titles controls if the title of the exported table will be exported into Excel or not If this option will be enabled the title will be exported as a plain text the font size style title background color will not be exported e Export Table Headers defines if a table header will be exported into Excel or not If this option is enabled the table header will be exported as a plain text Header font size style head
545. y To configure an appropriate communication driver click on the Source type of the Project Wizard menu The Source type selection window will be opened Sream Report Project Creating Wizard TR Project Name Please select the type of data source you wish to connect to Se _ Canfigure Driveri Data Archiving Batch Definition At this step a user will have to select and configure an appropriate communication driver to connect to and to get data for the project report Click the Configure Driver s button and the Communication Configuration Wizard dialog box will be opened For details on how to configure different types of drivers for the project please see related parts of the Communication Driver Definition section of this manual Click Next to go to the next step of project creation Click Back to go one step back to re configure or check project configuration Click Close to exit Project Wizard without any operation performed The next step will enable users to select whether to log real time item tag values into the Dream Report History or not please see pic below 23 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd Uream Repo Project Creating Wizara a Project Name n Dream Report is able to archive real time tag values into its own oo historian database Fa Do you want to archive your tag s real time values Data Archin g Yes want io encheve real fee tag
546. y Tank i lt prn Server To create a new chart select a list of data items and a slice color Process Batch Data for the data item in the chart enter a label for the legend if ii needed and click the Add button Advanced SQL Condition The data source and data item can be selected from the relevant combo boxes in the Select Data Item group Cancel Apply correction factor for all item values enables adding simple expression to a pie graph If a user needs to display pie graph on item s with the correction factor then first all values of the selected item s will be re calculated applying correction factor and then the pie graph will display re calculated data For more details please refer to the Correction Factor section ADF to be used enables to select an aggregated data filter ADF to be used combo box will contain all ADF definitions configured in the project The default string will be Not Used i e no filter ADF is applied For details on ADF definition configuration please go to the Aggregated Data Filter section of this manual 193 Dream Report Ocean Data Systems Ltd When displaying data item values for a specified period in the Process Value combo box you can select one of the options to display It can be either e Last value the last raw value from the database Current value the current value for the specified data item from the real time data driver Average the av
547. ystems Ltd If you want to import data from all data items available at the data source you don t need to open the item selection window Just check the check box Import all items and Archive Import will import all values from all found items 4 Set Data retrieval mode It has 2 options e By schedule each defined period the archive import tool will connect to the external archive and import all new values see the pic above e On absolute time the archive import tool will connect to the external archive and import all new item values at an exact time specified in the combo box see example below Data retrieval mode By schedule 0n absolute time 14 00 00 5 Click on the button Ada Now the archive import definition is ready 6 If user needs to import item values as soon as the archive import definition has been created he can click Import Now directly in the Dream Report Studio and data archiving will be started NOTE In order to launch data archiving immediately the archive import definition must be first saved by clicking OK button Only then user can open Custom Archive Import Tool Configuration dialog window again and start data item import directly in the DR Studio Functionality e When starting the runtime manager it will detect that there are Archive Import definitions available and it will launch the Archive Import Engine AIE The AIE will launch a timer and each time as soon as the period defi

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