Version 4.6 R4
New Feature Highlights
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Summary of New Functionality
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Dynamic Image Display
Pivot table (“Group By” support in SQL table)
FTP downloader
OLE DB support for SQL queries
Concurrent report generator
New web portal
New web object – a “Tree” object
New WebAPI parameters for web reports
Enhanced web dynamic objects
New and Updated/Enhanced Communication Drivers
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Dynamic Image Display
Pictures/Images can be added to a report in 3 different ways:
1. Reference a static image file
2. Reference an image dynamically from a file, with the option of referencing
different image files based on one or more conditions
3. Reference an image stored in a SQL database (i.e., a SQL “BLOB”) through
the use of a SQL query
The Benefit:
1. Display images based on different conditions (e.g., based on a valve state at
report generation time)
2. Display images stored in databases (e.g., an inspection photo)
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Dynamic Image Display
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Pivot Table (“Group By”) support in SQL Table
1. Perform “Group By” operations in the SQL Table object
2. Display "data blocks" for each grouped data sub-set
3. Can perform intermediate aggregations (on sub-groups)
The Benefit:
1. Data better organized and grouped for visual impact
2. Useful for “traditional” MES-type reporting, as well as grouping by batch,
date, etc.
3. Subtotals/aggregates by group for easier data analysis
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Pivot Table (“Group By”) support in SQL Table
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FTP Downloader
FTP Transfer Engine
1. Enables periodically downloading of data files from FTP server(s)
2. Files can then be used as data sources for reporting in Dream Report
3. An FTP definition is a collection of one or more FTP sites containing the same
type of files to be transferred - for instance, if there are number of distributed
recorders all logging the same type of data (e.g., CSV files from emissions
recorders, DAT files from temperature recorders, etc.)
The Benefit:
1. Automate the downloading and reporting of log files from distributed
recorders (e.g., Emissions, Temperature, etc.)
2. No custom HMI (or other) coding needed to do this
3. Automate reporting from such devices
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FTP Downloader
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OLE-DB Support for SQL Queries
1. Previously, custom SQL queries through ODBC interface only
2. OLE DB interface is now an option as well
The Benefit:
1. No “external” ODBC configuration needed – database connection definition
fully contained inside Dream Report project
2. Enable using SQL queries in reporting for historians, which do not have
ODBC interface available
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OLE-DB Support for SQL Queries
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Concurrent Report Generator
New Power Generator™ technology:
1. Enables Runtime engine to generate multiple reports simultaneously
2. Number of concurrent generation queues is tunable – default is 5, up to 50!
The Benefit:
1. Extremely important for projects with many concurrent web users – much
faster response times when generating reports
2. Important for large plant applications with many scheduled reports
3. Technology responds to big cross-plant requests
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New Web Portal
1. Modernized “look and feel”
2. Set of predefined portal “themes” – 17 to choose from
3. Significant performance improvement - report pages are loaded and updated
considerably faster.
4. Ability to set auto-refresh period for a specific web report (not as a global
parameter as before). Web report will be automatically refreshed
The Benefit:
1. Between the web portal performance improvements, and the ability of
concurrent report generation, using Dream Report web portal is seriously
faster!
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New “Tree” Web Object
1. Dynamic interactive web object
2. For selecting tags from a driver with hierarchical tag structure
3. The selected group, or sub-group, can then be used to filter an associated
Combo Box which has been configured to display a tag/item list.
The Benefit:
1. No longer limited to “flat” tag browsing in DRWeb – faster tag discovery and
selection
2. Support for hierarchical tag structures in Historians
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New “Tree” Web Object
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New Web API Parameters for Web Reports
Report generation service can be requested from a URL:
http:/hostname/DRWeb/WebAPI/GenReport.aspx?report=PDF%20Report&start=2015-08-11%2012:13:14&stop=2015-0812%2013:14:15&ptype=abs&param1=1&param2=3&param3=hello
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report –report name to be generated
instance – instance name of the specified report
ptype – time period type for report generation
format – contains format of report to be generated
target – contains output target for report (2 for printer, 16 for email)
username – user name
passwd – password for user
param(s) – additional parameters to pass into a report (BatchID, Line #, etc.)
The Benefit:
Tighter Dream Report integration with “external” applications - HMI’s,
Web Portals, Custom applications, etc.
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Enhanced Web Dynamic Objects
1. New options in web objects (Action Button and Hyperlink) for report generation
2. Same unified configuration user interface to pass dynamic parameters and
select report targets (email, printer).
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New and Enhanced/Updated Communication Drivers
New Drivers:
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Wonderware driver for 2014 R2 Historical Alarms (using both WW SDK and oData)
Mitsubishi Electric - SLMP Ethernet driver for CC-Link
Rockwell RSView historical values (*.dbf) driver
Batch monitor driver for Yokogawa recorders
Enhanced Drivers:
1. Wonderware Historian driver – Summary tables exposed; Public namespace
exposed for folder-based tag browsing
2. GE Proficy Historian driver – all retrieval/sampling modes exposed
3. GE Cimplicity driver
4. OPC HDA driver – supporting aggregation and retrieval modes
5. DeltaV HDA driver – supporting aggregation and retrieval modes
6. Yokogawa historical values driver
7. Yokogawa historical alarms driver
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