Monday, August 24, 2009

Report Engine 2.0

New Report Engine 2.0

During the current quarter there is a new enhancement for our software. This is actually a set of features that will apply to a set of reports within different modules on our system.

Those enhancement wont be on all the reports, however if you feel that there is a missing one that will impact most of our customer, feel free to request it free of cost.

Enhancements:

  • Remove “Modal” screens – This mean that the report will not force u to close it in order to access other part of our software. In essence the report became just another screen within our software, rather than a popup that prohibit the user to access other part of the software.
  • Capability to run the report multiple times – Because of the non-modal modification that means that the user can call the report again and run it with different parameters, and even have them side-by-side for comparison purpose.
  • Data view (with export capability) – Because of certain query restrictions this won’t be on all the report, but basically allow the user to see the raw-unformatted data in a grid view. Also will allow the user to export to either cvs, excel, and html format.
  • Direct access to subscriber (and some other records) information. – by clicking inside the report (over subscriber id) the software automatically open a subscriber and lookup that subscriber!

Some of the reports on the list are (and subject to change)

  • Alarm Activity report
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Non Restored Alarms
  • Excessive Signals
  • Failed To Test
  • Invalid Phone Numbers
  • Panel with no signals since

Soon we are going to review the Receivables and Service module reports that will be affected with those enhancements… stay tune!