Data Options
Data Options
The following table lists all the possible data options you might see in a report. Some options only appear on certain reports. This list has been placed in alphabetical order for convenience purposes.
Average: This option only appears on the “Average Usage” report. Selecting “Day”
causes the report to show the average amount of logins or users for each day during a week. Selecting “Hour” causes the report to show the average amount of logins or users for each hour of the day. The “Day & Hour”
option causes the report to generate average usage information for each hour of the entire week.
Avg Results by Selected Interval:
If this box is checked, you will see the average information for each interval. For example, let’s say that you have the date range covering three days and also have this box checked. In this scenario you also have the Interval set to “Hour of the Day.” With these options selected, you will only get 24 data points on the graph (one for each hour of a day). Each time point on the graph will represent the average usage for that time interval for all three days. So for the 1:00 PM point, you’ll have the average information for 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM for the three days.
Comparison Type: If group is selected, then there will be separate bars for each group for each time interval. If combined is selected, then all the groups will show up as one bar for a given time internal.
Exclude Existing Sessions:
This option excludes logins from being counted if the user is still logged in.
Filter By Group Status:
This dropdown menu allows you to only include time intervals in the report in which a status takes places. For example, if you choose the
“Open” option, then only data will be included in the report for times in which the groups were scheduled as open.
Historical Perspective:
When you select the “Current” perspective, the report will be run based on your current group and stations assignments. The report will assume that the stations and groups have always been organized in their current setup.
When you select the “Timeline” perspective, LabStats will take in account to how the stations and groups were assigned for each time interval in the report.
Interval: The interval represents what time units will be used on the graph.
Limit Days: This option allows you to only include information for certain days.
Limit Hours: This option allows you to only include information for certain hours.
Limit Results to Extremes:
This feature allows you to only show information for groups with the most or least usage. For example, if you were to select “Most” and “1” for the
Display Options
These options control how the graphs are presented to you. The “Display Type” option allows you to choose what type of graph you would like (line, bar, area, spline, point, or pie).
Report Type: Some reports can show different types of information based off what you select for “Report Type.”
For the Login History report, you can choose between the “Report Type”
of total logins or total unique users. The “total logins” option shows the total amount of logins for each time interval. This will count logins in which a user has logged in multiple times in the time interval. The “total unique users” option shows the total amount of users that have logged in during each time interval.
For the Login Summary report, you have three different “Report Type”
options. The “User Summary” option shows information about each different user name. The “Group Summary” option shows information for each group. The “Station Summary” shows information for each station.
For the Average Usage report, you have two different options. The
“Logins” option will cause the average amount of logins for a time interval to be displayed. If a user has logged in and out several times during the time interval, each login will count towards the average. The
“Unique Users” cause the average number of unique users for a time interval to be displayed.
For the Application Usage History report, you have five options. “Total Usage Time” shows the total time the selected applications have been used for each time interval. “Utilization Percentage” shows the percentage of time that the selected applications have been used while users have been logged on. “Application Launches” shows then number of times the selected applications have been opened. “Typical Usage Duration” shows how long an application is used for on average. “Peak Concurrent Usage”
shows the highest number of running instances of the application for a given time. For example, let’s say that there is a point in a time interval where Photoshop is opened on 60 different computers. During other points, only 30 instances of Photoshop are opened. 60 would represent the peak concurrent usage amount for that time interval.
For the Power Usage History report, you have four options. “Power Used”
shows the raw amount of power (kw) that has been used. “Power Wasted”
shows how much power has been used when no one was using the machine. “Power Saved” shows how much power you have saved by having computers go in to off or standby when they are not in use. “Power efficiency” shows how efficient your computer labs are based off your power baseline. A positive percentage means you are using less electricity then the baseline. A negative percentage means you are using more than the power baseline.
Time Period: This drop down box gives you a lot of different time periods you can run the report for. If you need to choose a custom date range, select the
“Custom Dates” option.
User Name: This option allows you to limit certain information to a specific user name.
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The “Series” and “Skin” options control how the graphs look, and the "Dimensions" box lets you specify how big the graph should be. This option is particularly useful if you plan to embed the graph in another web page. These options are available in LabStats versions 5.1.20326.99 and earlier. The graph interface has been changed in version 5.1.21007.149 and the “Series,” “Skin,”
and "Dimension" options are no longer available.
Save Custom Report
The “Save Custom Report” section allows you to save the options of a report as a custom report.
Simply provide a name and a description then click the “Save As” button. To access the saved report, go to “Reports” section of the site, and click on the “Reports Management” link. This will take you to a page where you can access all of your saved reports.
Request Embed Link
This option will generate a link you can use to access a generated graph directly. This is quite useful for embedding reports into web pages.
Export Options
On tabular reports, you have the option of exporting the data to a file. Simply click on the button that matches the type of export you wish to complete.