User guide

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Historical Report Basics 6-1
Understanding Historical
Reports 6
Historical Report Basics 6
In addition to viewing on-going activity of a DEFINITY system in real-time
reports, you can create, view and print reports that describe past status.
These reports of past activity are called Historical Reports.
You create Historical Reports in two steps:
• Downloading data from the DEFINITY system and storing it in a
database. You do this from BCMS Vu Server.
• Selecting the data for the report and putting it into a report. You do
this from BCMS Vu Client.
After a report has been created, you can print it immediately, save it, and
schedule it to be printed later. You do this from BCMS Vu Client.
This section describes the following topics:
• Data on the DEFINITY system
• Categories of Historical Reports
• Creating and opening Historical Reports
• Sample Historical Report
• Historical Report attributes
• Scheduling Historical Reports
• Exporting Historical Reports.