Job Management Partner 1/Performance Management User's Guide

5.10.3 Notes on combination reports

This subsection gives cautionary notes on combination reports.

Organization of this subsection

(1) Notes on graph types and graph options

(2) Notes on the order in which graphs are drawn

(3) Notes on the horizontal axis (X-axis) and vertical axis (Y-axis) of the graph

(4) Notes on the number of fields in a report

(5) Notes on series group settings

(6) Notes on the date range of records

(7) Baseline display periods

(1) Notes on graph types and graph options

The Show 3D graph option can be set for any graph, but is ignored for graph types other than column or stacked column. To show a graph in 3D, the following conditions must be met:

• The graph is based on one or two series groups, each group having an opposite Y-axis display position setting.
• The graph types of the series groups to be displayed present one of the following combinations:
  
  • One series with the graph type column/stacked column
  • Two series with the graph types column/stacked column and line
  • Two series with the graph types column/stacked column and area/stacked area

The graph might not be drawn correctly in 3D if these conditions are not satisfied.

• The Show gridlines option can be set for any graph, but applies only to the first series group. This setting is ignored for all other series groups.

(2) Notes on the order in which graphs are drawn

The graphs in a combination report are drawn in the following order:

1. Series groups are drawn in order from the first series group, with subsequent series groups being drawn over the earlier ones.
2. Registered reports in a series group are displayed in the order in which the report is registered in the series group, with subsequent registered reports being drawn over the top of the earlier ones.
3. Fields in a registered report are displayed in the order in which they appear in the report, with subsequent fields being drawn over the top of the earlier ones.

The following figure describes the order in which graphs are drawn.

Figure 5-47 Image showing the order in which graphs are drawn

The specific order for 1. and 2. above is determined by the series group settings you specify when defining the combination bookmark. Make sure that the settings you specify do not cause graphs to become hidden behind other graphs. The order of the fields described in 3. is determined by the settings in the report definition window.

The following exceptions apply to series groups that feature certain graph types:

• The graph for a series group with the graph type Line is drawn at the very front of the graph.
• The graph for a series group with the graph type Column or Stacked column and the Show 3D graph option specified is drawn at the very front of the graph.

(3) Notes on the horizontal axis (X-axis) and vertical axis (Y-axis) of the graph

• You cannot use common settings that apply across the entire combination report.
  For the Y-axis of each series group in a combination report, you can use either automatic scale adjustment (where the axis is adjusted to the maximum and minimum values of the actual data) or manual scale adjustment (where the maximum and minimum values are specified by the user). You can also choose whether to display the axis label on the left or right side of the graph.
  
• The X-axis for a combination report is a single fixed time series.
  Data collected over a date range or with an interval that does not match the X-axis is assumed to be missing some information and the system attempts to compensate it. This might compromise the integrity of the graph. If a misalignment in the collection interval occurs when PD records are collected, a stacked graph might not be displayed normally. We recommend that you use a line graph when the data includes PD records.
  To avoid this, you can use an optional PFM - Web Console function to adjust the record collection time for the graph display. For details, see the description of the <graph-time-correction> tag of the Windows configuration file (config.xml) in an appendix of the manual Job Management Partner 1/Performance Management Reference.
  

(4) Notes on the number of fields in a report

• Although there are no restrictions on the number of fields in a combination report, the system might be unable to display the graph or legend in part or in its entirety when the report contains too many fields. In this case, either increase the magnification of the graph, or use the following methods to restrict the number of fields displayed in the graph (we recommend that graphs display no more than approximately 20 fields).
  
  • Edit the combination bookmark to remove some of the reports from the graph.
  • Edit the report definitions to contain fewer fields, and then recreate the registered reports.
  • Edit the report definitions to apply filter conditions, and then recreate the registered reports.
  • Recreate the registered reports using shorter display names for the fields than the default field names.
  In environments where the number of lines in the legend exceeds the allowances given below, the graph or legend might be missing or cut off, or the graph might appear alongside the legend.
  
  • 100% magnification: Legend approx. 20 lines
  • 200% magnification: Legend approx. 30 lines
  • 400% magnification: Legend approx. 40 lines
  • 600% magnification: Legend approx. 50 lines
  • 800% magnification: Legend approx. 60 lines
• When the legend for a combination report contains too many characters, part of the legend might be cut off. In this case, either increase the magnification of the graph, or use the following methods to restrict the number of characters displayed in the legend.
  
  • Shorten the report names and then recreate the registered reports.
  • Recreate the registered reports using shorter display names for the fields than the default field names.
  • Reduce the number of bound agents and then recreate the registered reports.
  In environments where the number of characters in the legend exceeds the allowances given below, the legend might be cut off:
  
  • 100% magnification: Approx. 80 characters
  • 200% magnification: Approx. 120 characters
  • 400% magnification: Approx. 160 characters
  • 600% magnification: Approx. 200 characters
  • 800% magnification: Approx. 240 characters

(5) Notes on series group settings

At least one registered report must be assigned to a series group. No graph is displayed if none of the series groups contain any registered reports, or when the combination bookmark contains only a baseline.

(6) Notes on the date range of records

When you set the date range of a report to a Within the past ... option (for example Within the past hour), the report is updated with the data from that time period up to the present time when you choose Refresh in the report window. The start time of the baseline remains unchanged.

If you choose Specify when displayed as the date range, the Start time and End time set for the report and the start time of the baseline remain unchanged when you choose Refresh in the report window.

(7) Baseline display periods

• The Start time setting for the baseline display period is determined automatically based on the current time when the combination report was started and the Date range and Report interval settings for the report display period. When you change these settings, the Start time setting for the baseline display period is set to the Start time setting for the report display period.
• When you choose Refresh in the report window, the Start time and End time of the settings for the report display period might change according to the Date range setting. However, the Start time setting for the baseline display period will remain unchanged.
• Changes to the Start time setting for the baseline display period or the baseline data do not affect the starting points and ending points of graphs created from combination reports. However, when the report displayed with the baseline contains only one piece of data (data with the same starting point and ending point), the graph's starting point and ending point might be set to the range of the data collected as the baseline. The starting point and ending point of the actual display period for the graph is determined based on the data present in the range from the Start time to the End time in the report display period settings.
• The Start time setting for the baseline display period applies to the individual baseline. When a baseline contains data from multiple fields each with different start times, the field data with the earliest start time in the time series after the Start time setting for the baseline display period serves as the starting point. All other fields are displayed according to the start times determined when the baseline data was saved.
• When data from multiple fields with different start times is registered as a baseline, the graph is drawn with the field data earliest in the time series after the Start time setting for the baseline display period serving as the starting point. In this case, the relative start positions of each subsequent field are preserved.

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