Unused devices

Introduction

Quickly identify any unused devices on any entity i.e. site, team group etc. This is useful for finding channels no longer required or extensions that can be reallocated elsewhere.

The report shows two sections; Users and Channels. The Users tab displays a list of all users that haven't been utilised over the given report period. The Channels tab displays a list of all channels that haven't been utilised over the given report period.

Running the report

On the Reports screen, click on Unused devices in the reports type list, as shown below:

You can tailor the report to your specific requirements by selecting the entity you'd like to apply the report to as well as the output format required. You can also limit the results by adding filters and options as detailed below:

Entity

The Entity allows you to choose which area of the directory you would like to report on. If you want to run a report for your entire organisation, you do not need to choose an entity.

If you want to select a specific area for reporting, click on the button to get a pop-up window showing the areas of the directory you can report on.

To drill up and down simply click on the hyperlinks provided, shown in the screenshot below as Aberdeen, Birmingham, Brighton, Cardiff etc.

Once you have reached the area you would like to report on, click on the green as highlighted in red below.

Alternatively if you are looking for a specific area e.g. person, department, site, name etc, you can just enter the name and press the button as shown in the example below:

Selected Entity

Once your entity you would like to report on had been selected, it will appear, as shown below:

Delete an Entity

In order to delete an entity, just select it with your mouse and click on the button above it, as shown below:

NOTE: If you have restricted access, you may not be able to see the entire directory. You will need to speak to your system administrator to get access rights to other areas.

Period

TIM Enterprise allows complete flexibility in the way you can select your Billing Periods.

You have three types of period to select from. These are:

• Preset period
• Last period
• Custom period

NOTE: Running this report over longer periods increases the reliability of its results.

Preset period

The standard Preset periods are shown below and can be selected from this simple drop-down list.

The built-in periods are based on a standard Gregorian calendar and are defined as follows:

Last period

The last period allows complete flexibility, e.g. last 3 hours, last 7 days, last 2 quarters.

NOTE: We define last week from the pre-set periods as Sun-Sat of the previous week and last 7 days as the preceding 7 days.

Custom period

The user defined custom period allows the user to define the exact date and time that the report is required from and to.

Format

This allows you to define the format of the output. Simply click on your preferred output format to determine whether you would like the report output in Web format, to PDF, CSV, as XML or Excel.

To select, simply click on your chosen format from the list as shown above. Note that any report can be run several times with different formats selected for the output if required.

Format	Description
Web	When a report is run, its output is displayed in the Report Output window, which is a mini web-browser containing the HTML output generated by the report engine. It is the common interface for all reports. The report body is shown in a window that can be panned around by using the horizontal and vertical scrollbars. If the report is made up of multiple pages, you can navigate it by using the Back and Fwd buttons at the bottom. You can print the report by pressing the Print button, or save the report to an HTML file by pressing the Save button and choosing a filename and location. Universally-accessible, this format provides clickable column headers for dynamic sorting of table data, with clean graphical charts in the popular Flash format, so you can zoom into them for more detail. Each report is fully customisable - right down to the individual table fields. To view these reports, all that's needed is your favourite web browser - with no need for obscure add-ons!
PDF (Portable Document Format)	PDF is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system. PDFs will run over several pages depending on the report selected. Because of the nature of PDF reports, headers are fixed and not selectable as in web reports above. You may however pre-sort before running or scheduling using the filters available in the Options section. PDFs are ideal for producing reports like Phone Bills. PDFs are ideal when distributing to colleagues inside and outside of your organisation - while guaranteeing they'll look identical across all operating systems when viewed on the screen or printed out.
XML (Extensible Markup Language)	XMLs purpose is to aid information systems in sharing structured data, especially via the internet, to encode documents and to serialise data. XML, in combination with other standards, makes it possible to define the content of a document separately from its formatting, making it easy to reuse that content in other applications or for other presentation environments. Most importantly, XML provides a basic syntax that can be used to share information between different kinds of computers, different applications, and different organizations without needing to pass through many layers of conversion. Since all reports are derived from this native format, we pack each one with all the data you'd ever need, so you'll always be able to extract the report data into your favourite reporting packages, such as Business Objects, Crystal Reports, or even your favourite Office spreadsheet.
CSV (Comma Separated Values)	A CSV file is used for the digital storage of data structured in a table of lists form, where each associated item (member) in a group is in association with others also separated by the commas of its set. Each line in the CSV file corresponds to a row in the table. Within a line, fields are separated by commas, each field belonging to one table column. CSV files are often used for moving tabular data between two different computer programs, for example between a database program and a spreadsheet program. This option is ideal for interacting with your own back office systems, all CSV data is fully customisable using XSLT from the report's original XML format.
Excel	Select Excel as your preferred report format, if you would like to manipulate the data and possibly integrate with data in other Excel spreadsheets.

Filters

The filters option allows you to add one or more filters to the report to allow you to sift through information in more detail.

Seeing from the screenshot below, the button is deactivated, meaning you can not add filters to this report.

Options

Unlike Filters, this report does have a lot of Options. Some reports do not have any options. Because all options are not available on all reports, only the options that can be used with the report selected will be shown. All other options will be greyed out and can not be selected.

Upon selecting the Option, then click on the Add button to add this option or just select the Close button if you no longer want to include this Option.

A list with the available options for the Unused devices report can be seen below:

Sort results by

When running this report, you may want to order the results to suit. You can select the criteria by which you want to order the results from the list as shown below:

• Name: .........................
• ID: .....................
• Email: ............................
• DDI: ............................
• Mobile: ........................

Once your option is selected, press the Add button to add it to the report.

Sort order

Decide if you would like the results displayed in ascending or descending order.

As shown above, you have the following two options:

• Ascending: ............
• Descending: ............

Once your option is selected, press the Add button to add it to the report.

Audio only

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As shown above, you have the following two options:

• Yes: ............
• No: ............

Once your option is selected, press the Add button to add it to the report.

Notes only

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As shown above, you have the following two options:

• Yes: ............
• No: ............

Once your option is selected, press the Add button to add it to the report.

Scored only

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As shown above, you have the following two options:

• Yes: ............
• No: ............

Once your option is selected, press the Add button to add it to the report.

Show "Do not log"

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As shown above, you have the following two options:

• Yes: ............
• No: ............

Once your option is selected, press the Add button to add it to the report.

Added Options

Once your options are added, they will appear under the Options section, as shown below:

Delete an Option

In order to delete an option, just select it with your mouse and click on the button above it, as shown below:

NOTE: You may add more than one Option to any report.

Creating the report

When you have chosen a reporting period, and are happy with your selections, you have two options:

• Run the report now
• Schedule for future delivery

To choose your preferred option, select the appropriate button.

If you choose to run the report now, click the Run now button, as shown below. The results will appear immediately in your chosen format.

To schedule the report for delivery at a later date, follow the instruction given on the Schedule a report section.

Unused devices - The results

When selecting Web as the output format, this report will appear as below.

The Web format allows for complete flexibility when viewing any report. To view details of any filters or selection parameters used in creating this report, simply click on About this report at the top right of the page.

As with all reports, the header of the report includes the report title, any name you may have given to it, and the date and time it was run.

All headers are clickable allowing you re-arrange the report layout in seconds, to sort the calls in ascending or decending order based on the header clicked.

The headers of this report are as follows:

The Name and any associated ID for any unused user or channel will appear. If additional properties have been added e.g. E-mail, DDI, Mobile etc. these properties will be displayed also.

If you would like to go back and view any report for a larger section of the organisation, simply click on the appropriate link in the breadcrumb as shown below: