Adjust Auto-Report Generation Offset

Automatically generated reports from WQData LIVE often need to have their start times offset to accommodate for the upload delay (due to the latency of sensor sample acquisition and data logger telemetry connection processes) on the final data point. If no offsets are entered, reports that are delivered may be missing the most recent data point since the values were not yet available when the report was generated.

To configure an offset for an automatically generated report:

1. Hover over the REPORT header of the project on WQData LIVE to view the list of Memorized (saved) reports.

 

2.  Locate and click on the memorized report that is configured to send automatically.

 

3. Select Send | Email or Send | FTP/SFTP depending on which is being used to load the current report generation/destination settings.

 

4. Locate the Begin Date Time field beneath the schedule activation options of the report menu.
   1. In the sample report below, the daily report may be missing the 12am local time (00:00) rain reading since the data logger is likely to be in the process of recording/transmitting the measurement to WQData LIVE at this exact time.
   2. An appropriate offset entered in the hh:mm format will allow sufficient time for the data logger to upload the 12am reading before the daily report is generated, resulting in a complete dataset.

 

1. 3. For cellular systems, a 5 minute offset is generally sufficient to address the aforementioned ‘missing’ final data point in a report.

 

5. Once the offset is entered, click DONE and acknowledge the success prompt.