Data Sets

In the KPICapture library, you can record data into a 'data set'.

While data sets can be very specific - such as focusing on a particular area of a facility or part of a machine - they're usually used to record different time resolutions of data.

Since a KPICapture data set only records daily information (ie. you can't have more than one point with a given name in a single day), you might choose to split some analytic values up into distinct sets.

For example, a daily set (with your 24 hour totals), a morning set (with the shift totals from the morning shift), a evening set (with totals from evening/night shifts) or a weekly set with coarser-grain data.

You choose a data set every time to create a KPICapture or KPIAccess object.

As mentioned, this system is very basic, allowing it to be used on ARDI servers regardless of what infrastructure (ie. databases) might be available.

By default, a folder is created one folder below the report folder, called _capture. This can be overridden with an optional 2nd parameter to the constructors for KPICapture and KPIAccess.

This '_capture' folder itself contains a folder for every data set you create.

Inside each of these data-set folders, you'll find a JSON file for each day.

The Back-Generating function was added to the ReportList addon to help fill-in values when you've added new logic to your reports or new values you're capturing with KPIAccess.