Reports

A report within Spider is used to map issues when processing requests. Reports can only be called once a request has been processed by a robot. What are reports used for:

• How often business rules are invoked
• Display in management information
• Mapping process improvements

Create reports

Navigate to Menu > Information > Reports > Maintain. Click Add new to create a new one.

Then fill the following fields:

• (1): Select the process to which the report belongs.
• (2): Here the report group can be selected or created. We will skip this for now.
• (3): Enter a clear short name for the report.
• (4): If the report is to be shown in the Mtinfo, tick this.

After this, click Save

After saving, the report is visible in the overview.

Reportgroups

To make MT reporting more clear, we can divide the Reports into groups.

Create Reportgroup

Navigate to Menu > Information > Reports > Maintain, select the ReportGroups tab and click Add new

Select the Process this group will be used for and again specify a short clear name.

In our example, we have created 2 groups, one for process information and the other for error reports. All other reports are shown as other in the Mtinfo.

Link Reportgroup

Now navigate again to Menu > Information > Reports > Maintain, select the Reports tab and edit a report. We are going to link it to one of the groups.

We link the second report to the Report group Error information We did not link a third report to a Report group.

This will result in:

• (1): To which process does the Report belong?
• (2): What is the name of the Report.
• (3): To which Report group is the Report attached.
• (4): Is this Report shown in the Mtinfo.
• (5): Filter on ReportName.
• (6): Filter on ReportGroupName.

Info

From version 1.12 the search filter is expanded (6)

For more information on displaying Report Groups in MtInfo, you can find it here: MtInfo

Report overview

To find out how many times a report has been triggered, you can find it in the Report Overview. Navigate to Information > Reports > Overview.

The overview shows how often a report has been created by a robot.

Report Logs

In the report log more details are visible and you can find out by which request the report was addressed.

To see an overview of when reports are called by the robot and by which request, navigate in the Spider to Menu > Information > Reports > Log.

• (1) Which report has been called
• (2) On which request did this happen?
• (3) Which workstation (robot) did this happen on?
• (4) To which process does this report belong?
• (5) When was the report log created by the robot?

You can filter by name.