P E A R L   E C H 0   U S E R   G U I D E  

Last 6 Months 

Reports on all data over the last six months beginning the day after the 

current day of the sixth prior month up to and including the current day of the 

current month. 

Last 12 Months 

Reports on all data over the last twelve months beginning the day after the 

current day of the twelfth prior month up to and including the current day of 

the current month. 

Custom 

Reports on all data over a time frame that you specify. 

Groups 

The Pearl Echo Report Manager allows you to specify a group of users to be 

included in the report results.  By narrowing reports based on specific users, 

reports can be run for managers of a specific group, department or division.  

Defining Report Groups will be discussed later in this chapter.  

Data Sources 

The Pearl Echo Report Manager provides a number of data sources against 

which a report may be run.  The Reports tab provides access to the following 

data sources: 

Current Activity 

This option is used to report against the current native Pearl Echo Activity Log 

file.  As the Pearl Echo Activity Log is dynamically changing and contains up 

to date data, this option is the most frequently used selection. 

Archived Activity 

This option is used to report against aged data that you have specified to be 

stored in your Pearl Echo archive directory.  The directory containing your 

archived data is specified in the  Data Maintenance  selection of the Options 

menu.  The Pearl Echo Report Manager can run reports against archived data 

stored to individual daily archive files or data appended to a single archive 

file.   

Active Window 

When running reports interactively from the Reports tab, you can specify the 

active Pearl Echo window to be the data source against which reports are run.  

This is useful for running reports against Activity Logs that you have filtered 

or sorted. 

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