Reporting Plus: browser-based reports and dashboards for Ignition 8.3

3rd Party Modules
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Hi all,

We've released Reporting Plus, a third-party module for Ignition 8.3 that adds an interactive report and dashboard builder. You design reports in a browser-based Studio, view them in Perspective, Vision or any browser, and export, print or schedule them from the Gateway.

Why we built it

Our customers kept asking for reports that look and feel like the web dashboards they use everywhere else: KPI cards, charts you can click to filter, slicers, dark themes, and a layout that works on screen as well as on paper. Reporting Plus is our take on that: a modern, interactive style of reporting that runs entirely inside Ignition.

Building reports

  • Browser-based Studio: drag-and-drop layout, live data preview, themes and templates. Open it from the Designer, the Gateway web UI or a browser.
  • Visuals: KPI cards with sparklines, column/bar, line, area, combo, pie/donut, gauges, tables with conditional formatting, matrix/heatmap, scatter, treemap, funnel, waterfall, slicers, text, images and shapes
  • Interactive: tooltips, click-to-cross-filter, slicers, parameters and auto refresh. They work the same way in the browser, Perspective and Vision.
  • Themes: light, dark, print-friendly and a high-performance HMI theme, with per-report overrides

Data

SQL queries with parameters, Named Queries, Tag History, current tag values, Python scripts, CSV and JSON/REST. Add calculated columns with an expression language.

Output and delivery

  • Export to PDF (vector, selectable text), Excel (one sheet per visual plus raw data), PNG, SVG, HTML and CSV
  • Print from the browser, Perspective, Vision or the Studio, or send to a Gateway printer
  • Schedule daily, weekly, monthly, every N minutes or with cron, each with its own time zone and parameter overrides. Deliver by email (using the Gateway's SMTP profiles), to a folder, to FTP/FTPS, or to a printer, and check the run history for each schedule.
  • Scripting: system.reportingplus.exportReport, printReport, runSchedule and more from Gateway scripts

Fits into Ignition

  • Reports are project resources, so they come along with project exports, Gateway backups, inheritance and source control.
  • Perspective and Vision Report Viewer components. Parameters bind live.
  • Everything ships in one module: no external services, no headless browser, and nothing to install on clients.
  • Schedules only run on the active node of a redundant pair.

Trial and licensing

Requirements

Ignition 8.3. Perspective and Vision are optional. You can view reports in a plain browser without either one.

Feedback and feature requests are always welcome, either here or at sales@torch-automation.com.

Jeremy
Torch Automation