30.7 Period Management

Period Management includes settings for the report data time range, report generation time, and whether to perform pre-statistics.

By clicking Reports → Period Management, administrators can customize the periods for periodic reports.

Default periods include standard yearly, quarterly, monthly, weekly, and daily cycles. System default periods can be modified but not deleted. Selecting any period and clicking the button will restore it to the standard settings for that period type.

The settings for each period are described as follows:

Example for Pre-Statistics Before Report Generation

Suppose a monthly print statistics report is created with the following month-cycle settings:

• Start Date: 1st of the month
• End Date: 31st of the month
• Report Generation Time: 31st of the month at 23:59

Using October as an example:

If Pre-Statistics Before Report Generation is not enabled, the report will generate October’s print statistics only on October 31 at 23:59. Before this time, October will not appear as an available selection in the report date picker.

To allow the administrator to view up-to-date statistics throughout October:

• 1. Enable Pre-Statistics Before Report Generation.
• 2. Set a Start Time for pre-statistics, e.g., October 7.
• 3. Set the Statistical Interval to 1 week.

With this setup:

• On October 7, the system will generate statistics from October 1 to October 7.
• One week later (October 14), it will generate updated statistics from October 1 to October 14.
• Each new pre-statistics result overwrites the previous one until the final report is generated on October 31.

This ensures that each pre-generated dataset increasingly approximates the final report results, allowing administrators to view near-real-time statistics during the month.