Basic Reports

The Power Operation reporting feature is an Internet Information Services (IIS) Web application that is typically hosted on the same server as the Power Operation services. The PLS_Include project defines a PLS_ReportPage, along with its screen resolution-specific variant pages. PLS_ReportPage contains a Microsoft Web Browser ActiveX control in which the reporting Web pages are displayed.

Power Operation with Advanced Reporting and Dashboards includes two different types of reports, basic and advanced.

Basic reports include the following:

  • Multi-Device Usage Reports
  • Rapid Access Labels
  • Single Device Usage Reports
  • Tabular Reports
  • Tabular Report Exports
  • Trend Reports

Advanced Reports and Dashboards are available when the Advanced Reporting and Dashboards Module is purchased and installed with Power Operation. See the Power Monitoring Expert 2024 – System Guide for information on advanced reports.

Prerequisites

Before you can set up basic reports to generate and view reports, you must:

  • Set up data acquisition parameters. To do this, use the Application Configuration Utility. See Set up data acquisition parameters and (for receiving reports via email) Configure basic reports for email for instructions.
  • In Power Operation Studio > System > Menu Configuration, menu tabs are configured to use the new "PLS_ReportDsp()" Cicode function to send URLs to the Web browser control at runtime. The control then browses to the available reporting Web pages. See the PLS_Example project for examples of this functionality.
  • When switching between Power Operation projects in runtime, you must restart the Schneider Electric Service Host (CoreServiceHost) service before you run the reporting application. This allows the reporting application to load data from the currently running Power Operation project.

To get started setting up a report, see Set up the Power Operation Runtime for basic reports

For descriptions of each report type, see Basic Reports.

NOTE: If you install Matrikon Explorer on the same computer as Power Operation, the LiveView and reporting features will not launch. To prevent this, install Matrikon before you install Power Operation. If you install Matrikon after you install Power Operation, you need fix the issue in this way: Go to IIS > ISAPI Filters, and then reset the DLL that is already selected (click browse and re-select v4.0.30319 aspnet_filter.dll). Click OK.).