Settings. Scheduled Tasks. The "Generating report" task

The "Generating report" task allows you to configure Printer Activity Monitor for automatic report generation and delivery to the recepients.

How this works?

The reports are automatically generated using the previously created user-defined reports(see the "User defined reports" chapter). Therefore, you are required to create all the necessary user-defined reports before adding a "Generating report" task in the task manager. Next:

  1. In the task manager, add a new task and select "Generating report" for the task type.
  2. On the template list, mark the user-defined reports you want to use for generating reports. You may edit settings for each of the selected user-defined reports by clicking on the "Settings" button.
  3. Select the delivery transport.
  4. Specify the period of time the reports should be generated for. The following events can be used for marking the beginning and the end of the report period:
    • Task start date- uses the date when the "Generating report task" was started.
    • Beginning/End of previous week- uses the date of beginning or end of the prevous week when the task was started.
    • Beginning/End of current week- uses the date of beginning or end of the week when the task was started.
    • Beginning/End of previous month- uses the date of beginning or end of the prevous month when the task was started.
    • Beginning/End of current month- uses the date of beginning or end of the month when the task was started.
    • Beginning/End of current year- uses the date of beginning or end of the year the task was started.
    • Use template's settings- uses the date specified on the "Reports" tab when saving the template to disk.
    • Specific date- the date will be manually specified by user.
  5. Define other options and save the task.

When these steps are completed, the report generation task will be launched using the specified time period and report templates.