What Is Reporting - Chamberlain IPAC Administrator's Manual

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What is Reporting?

IPAC Server™ provides reporting capabilities on a variety of levels.
Activity Reporting is a customized query of the Activity Log, such as "All Access Events by
John Doe at Front Door on February 1" or "All Exception Events at Server Room in the last
month." This report is discussed in greater detail in Chapter 14: Activity.
Under the History tab, the Reporting tab also provides several reporting options:
Reports is a query tool for predefined commonly run reports, allowing these reports to be
generated immediately depending upon administrator permissions. Reports also allows for
the creation and generation of new reports.
Predefined reports have established data so they do not require user input. They can be
edited, but it is recommended that the predefined reports be maintained as a baseline and
copied into a new report if changes are desired.
These reports allow an administrator with appropriate permissions to run these reports for
immediate consumption without requiring any additional set up.
Scheduled Reports allows either predefined or new reports to be run on a defined schedule.
Administrators with appropriate permissions can create schedules for reports.
Finally, Muster Report allows administrators with appropriate permissions to use the normal
antipassback functionality to track the presence of users in a facility.
Reporting uses two features that are defined below:
Relations – Relations are the data that you want to report on, and related data. For
example, users have groups, which have permissions and thus are tied to devices. When
building a report listing all users and the groups those users are in, you can start with the
Users relation then select Groups. This makes various properties of Users as well as Groups
available for both report criteria and outputs.
Criteria - Criteria are ways to specify what data appears in a report. Criteria are built by
selecting a property of a relation, an operation and a value. For example, to constrain a
report on users to only those that will be expiring in the next two weeks, add a criteria for
'User Expiration Date', an operation of 'within the next' and specify a value '14 days.' Note
that all rows in the report will match all given criteria. Criteria properties are defined below.
Equal – exactly matches the data selected/input into the field.
Not Equal – does not match the data selected/input into the field.
Is Empty – contains no data.
Is Not Empty – contains any data.
Is In – is within the criteria selected/input into the field (for example, is in Managers).
Is Not In – is not within the criteria selected/input into the field. (for example, is not in
Morning Shift).
Begins With – starts with the data selected/input into the field.
Contains – contains the data at any point selected/input into the field.
Ends With – ends with the data selected/input into the field.
Within The Last – prompts for a number and a unit (minutes, hours, days, weeks).
Within the Next – prompts for a number and a unit (minutes, hours, days, weeks)
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