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Use the following procedure to configure a task template:

Go to System Operations > Task Management > Task Templates.
Use the dropdown menu to select the Task Type and Task Template. (Click Add to create a new task template. For more information, see Adding task templates.)
Configure the Task specific parameters. These parameters are defined after step 5 of this procedure.
Configure the Common task template parameters. For more information, see Task template parameters.
Click Save.

Task specific parameters:

Select the appropriate graph type.

Select ID

The physical location (or locations) on a premise, where the utility company considers the commodity that it supplies (water, gas, energy, and so on), to be delivered to the customer. The service point(s) is not necessarily the same location on the premise where the commodity is metered. Service points are unaffected by meter and account changes. Some utilities and utility software refer to a service point alternatively as a point of delivery.

Service Point Channel

A logical representation of data delivered at the service point. A channel can be considered a measurement of the energy delivered to the customer. Channels allow a service point to measure different units. For example, a single service point can measure kWh, kW, and Kvarh. A service point can represent data collected from meters or data calculated from other meter or formula data in the system. In most cases, the reference and use of data from a given service point channel is independent of its origin. You can generally perform the same business operations regardless of whether a service point channel is metered, calculated, or imported. Service point channels are the main entry point into the system and are used to specify channels on which to report, export, and import.

Channel Number

Select or enter the service point channel number.

Select Time Span

Time Period

Defines the time span of the data to include in the task for exports, reports, and other tasks. Some common time periods include: Today, Yesterday, Month, Month to Date, Week, Week to Date, Year, and Year to Date.

Start Date

Defines the first day from which to include data in the task.

Tip: Defines the date to start the baseline calculation. Use this parameter to indicate how far back your baseline is needed. Typically, this is the first day of operation or recovery period. If this value is not properly set, it may default to the beginning of time, and Like Days may calculate as far back as historic data is available. This will overwhelm the LikeDayAlgorithmDate table and lead to slower processing.

End Date

Defines the last day from which to include data in the task. To include the full 24 hours of the last day, the task will be scheduled with an adjusted End Date (that is, adding one day to the End Date entered in the task parameter).

Time Zone

Defines the time zone that corresponds to the time period and start/end dates you select in the task template.

For Rate Event Report, the time zone format is PacificUS, PacificUSNoDst, and EasternUS.
For TOU Schedules, the IDs cannot start with a numeric character. For example, "400_TOUSchedule" is not a valid ID. Instead, name the ID "TOUSchedule_400".

Options

Output Interval

Defines the length of the output interval data in minutes, regardless of how data is stored. This value must be a multiple of the recorded interval length and an even factor of 60.

Minutes to Roll

Defines the length of time over which to average the demand, and allows you to smooth demand. Rolling demand may be required for billing purposes. For example, if the export is for billing, and the customer contract specifies billing on a 60 minute rolling demand for data that is metered in 15 minute intervals, set the Minutes to Roll to 60. When you export the data, there is an interval value every 15 minutes. However, the value is an averaged demand value over 60 minutes that ends at the timestamp for each 15 minute interval. In this case, the averaged intervals are the current interval plus the three previous intervals.

Minimum Scale

Defines the lower limit for the graph independent of the lowest value of the data. If this value is set to 0, IEE automatically determines the scale based on the actual minimum value.

Maximum Scale

Defines the upper limit for the graph independent of the upper value of the data. If this value is set to 0, IEE automatically determines the scale based on the actual maximum value.

As Metered

Determines if IEE exports data using the metered interval length (instead of specifying an Interval Length). Select this check box to enable this parameter.

Output

Send Data To

Defines where to send the report. You can output the report as a file on the computer or network, to a disk, or send the report directly to a printer.

Export File Type

Determines the output format for the export file. Use the dropdown list to select the output format for the report if you are sending this export to disk.

Export Directory

Defines the path where to write the export files. Where applicable, click Search to navigate to the appropriate directory.

Export File Name

Defines the export file name. You can enter a unique file name or accept the default. This parameter supports the standard IEE macros.