Working with Reports

TotalFlow Production Manager provides reports that you can use for capacity planning, production efficiency measurement and optimization, and problem determination.

TotalFlow Production Manager collects data about job events and printer activity, and then generates reports based on the data. You can use any of the reports that TotalFlow Production Manager supplies; or you can customize the reports to create your own.

TotalFlow Production Manager lets you:

  • View reports
  • Modify the supplied reports to create your own customized reports
  • Save and delete reports
  • Export reports as PDF or comma-separated value (CSV) files so you can print them or manipulate the data in spreadsheets or other application.
  • Create custom reports.

Important: All reports provide information based on data received from printers and controllers. Therefore, TotalFlow Production Manager does not guarantee the reporting values to be accurate. User actions such as imposition, page exceptions, deleting jobs while printing, and others might affect the actual numbers.  Also, printer operations, such as jam recovery, might affect accuracy.

In this section:

  1. Supplied Reports
    TotalFlow Production Manager provides standard reports that you can modify to create your own customized reports.
  2. Viewing Reports
    Administrators can view the data for any report listed in the Reports pod.
  3. Setting the Time Range for a Report
    By default, reports show data for today, starting at midnight local time. You can change this time range.
  4. Saving Reports
    You can create your own reports by modifying the supplied reports and saving copies with different names. You can then modify and save your own reports. You cannot modify the supplied reports and save your changes with the names of the supplied reports.
  5. Exporting Reports
    You can export reports as CSV or PDF files.
  6. Deleting Reports
    Administrators can delete their own reports. You cannot delete the reports that TotalFlow Production Manager supplies.
Parent topic: User's Guide