Report: Basics

1. Tab Properties
2. Create report dialog
3. Output format file: The "Output format file" is used to specify how the report is to be output.
4. Period: Here you specify the period for which the license events are to be listed.
5. Read directly from the event log files

An "output format file" is used to specify how the report is to be output. The output format file is a configurable XML file. You must create it yourself.

Enter the following information in this file:

• Contents of the list
• Selected output type (list or short version)
• File into which the result is written
• Separator used (tabulator or semicolon)

In this group box you specify the period for which the license events are to be listed.

Note the specified time zone. The Eplan License Manager always uses the UTC time zone irrespective of its installation site and its set computer time. You have to select the Computer time option in order to set the time zone in which you work. In as far as the "UTC" time zone is not set on your computer, the UTC time is converted and the report created with your computer time.

The specified time zone also influences the time data in the result file. If you have selected the For the last days / hours option, the start time of the functionality is also used as the finish time specification.

The specifications for the periood are evaluated down to the minute from the start to the finish time. The correct specification for one day is therefore "from 00:00:00 up to and including 23:59:59".

The Create report functionality can also interpret the contents of the "*.rlog" log file directly. To this purpose activate the Read directly from the event log files check box and specify the desired directory in the field below. Reading rights are required for this directory.

If the check box is not activated, the Create report functionality receives the required data from the License Manager.

The setting Read directly from the event log files helps to ease the burden on the Eplan License Manager. In such a case the reports are created from the log files that do not have the current date.

The Create report functionality outputs the logged license events either as a list or as a summary. In the process the result is always output line-by-line and unsorted. Whether the data are output per time, per license bundle or per license extension in a line depends on the configuration of the output format file.

Example: Result of Create report

As list:

In the example a license user called SKE used the license "Eplan Electric P8-Professional" and the license "Release Eplan Electric P8 2.5" on 21.06.2015 from 10:00:01 to 11:13:20.

Date	User	Action	License
21.06.2015 10:00:01	SKE	IN	Eplan Electric P8-Professional
21.06.2015 10:00:01	SKE	IN	Release: Eplan Electric P8 2.5
21.06.2015 11:13:20	SKE	OUT	Eplan Electric P8-Professional
21.06.2015 11:13:20	SKE	OUT	Release: Eplan Electric P8 2.5
21.06.2015 10:02:23	NTB	IN	Eplan Fluid
21.06.2015 10:02:23	NTB	IN	Release: Eplan Fluid 2.5

In summary:

In the example the license "Eplan Electric P8-Professional" was used once on 21.06.2015 at 10:00:01 ("in use"). At this moment a further three licenses for Eplan Electric P8-Professional were still available.

Date	License	Total used	Total free
21.06.2015 10:00:01	Eplan Electric P8-Professional	1	3
21.06.2015 10:02:23	Eplan Fluid	2	1
21.06.2015 10:00:01	Release: Eplan Electric P8 2.5	1	3
21.06.2015 10:02:23	Release: Eplan Fluid 2.5	2	1

The summary is structured as follows on the basis of the bundle properties:

1. Summary of available license bundles (Bundle ID greater than 0)
2. Summary of the standard bundle (Bundle ID=0, actually: licenses that are not combined into bundles).