Report Priority Rules define both a report priority for use when reporting requires prioritization within the device (most critical alerts should be assigned a higher priority so they get preference in reporting to the web portal). The Report rules also define important timing parameters for reporting. The top level view of report priorities simply lists the name, number, and most frequently referenced settings. Click on the report priority name to view the entire rule and make changes.

Enter a priority number between 1 and 63 inclusive, enter a name, and click Add to create a new rule. It is highly recommended that you start with your first group roughly in the middle of the list so you allow room for later elevating the priority of a group. Report group #1 is the highest reporting priority, and any delays in reporting of group 1 will delay group 2 until group 1 has been successful.

The report priority is given a name only for reference in other web pages. It has no functional purpose other than making the portal more user friendly. Check the Queue to Send box and click Update to send this report rule to the remote monitoring device. When it acknowledges receipt, that timestamp will be noted here.

Select the applicable reporting scheme for this group. It will be common to assign different schemes to different sets of data points as their urgency will vary by application. The fact that a scheme is included in the drop-list here does not necessarily mean it is supported by the remote monitoring device. Check with technical support to see what your device supports.

The Enable Object allows all alert notifications within this reporting group to be turned on and off by an external input or Modbus register. If the object is zero, the report group is always enabled. If nonzero, that object will be looked up by the monitoring device, and if its value is zero, reporting of all objects in this group will be disabled. The enable/disable applies to both data reporting (delta/trend) and alarm reporting. Each data object can be assigned to different report groups for purposes of reporting its periodic data, its warnings, and its alarms. A single data object can be affected by three different report priority rules. (The set of objects that uses the same report priority rule is referred to as a report group.)

Minimum quiet time applies to Report on Delta. Minimum quiet time means the data object will never be reported more frequently than this regardless of how many times the value may have changed by the delta amount. Maximum quiet time is the maximum allowed time to go without any report regardless of whether the data has remained unchanged indefinitely. Setting the minimum and maximum quiet times to exactly the same time period turns a report on delta into a straight periodic report at that interval.

Trend window and sample determine the timing for Trend reporting. The window time determines how often the trend data is reported to the web portal. The sample time determines time between samples within that window. If window is 600 seconds and sample time is 60 seconds, that means the average reported will consist of an average of 10 samples taken over 600 seconds. Note that reporting via cellular every 10 minutes will run up a substantial air time bill. A more "normal" setting for trend window would be in the range of hours. Sample time can still be short even with a long window.

Maximum reports per day sets the limit on number of cellular calls made for this object. Note that this limit applies only to this object, meaning that the combined total of all objects can still run up the call total much higher than what is shown here. If set to zero, the limits are disregarded.

When reporting mode is cellular with satellite backup, you have the option of setting the amount of time cellular needs to be out of range before satellite is used instead. This limits unnecessary use of satellite for temporary cellular outages.

The maximum reports per day limits the number of satellite transmissions for this object in the same manner as for limiting cell calls.