📒Reporting

Learn how to create reports in Hamina Network Planner.

Hamina Network Planner offers a built-in, customizable reporting systems. It can generate a static, traditional PDF report, or a web link to an online, interactive report.

The online, interactive report is essentially a read-only version of Hamina, with full panning, zooming, and interactivity. The report viewer doesn't need a Hamina account or license - they only need a link to the report (and a password, if you choose to password-protect it).

Creating a Report

To create a report in Hamina Network Planner:

Click the Reporting button in the upper right. Then, select Create a new Report.
A new browser tab will appear. Name the report, and click Create. Note: You can choose a previous report to use as a template.
The Reporting Tab will now be visible, where the report can be customized, exported to a PDF, or shared.

If you've created a previous report that you'd like to reuse, you can use the Template dropdown menu to browse previous projects and reports that you've created.

Reporting Tab Overview

The Reporting Tab has several sections:

Generate PDF - Generate and download a static PDF version of the report.
Share Link - Customize and create a link to a live, interactive, web-based version of the report.
Pages - Switch between different pages of the report, and hide/show pages to deliver the relevant content to whoever will view the report.
Page Title and Description - Customize the title and description of each page in the report. Changing the title here will also change it in the Pages column.

Adding a Custom Logo

In the upper right, you can upload a custom logo, such as your company logo to add branding to your report. You can upload it either by clicking on the field, or dragging a logo to the field.

Hiding and Showing Pages

To switch to a different page, click on the page in the list.

You can hide pages from the final report by hovering your mouse over a page, and clicking the Hide button.

Once a page is hidden, click the Show button to re-enable the page for the final report.

Pages

Summary

Bill of Materials

Lists all of the materials required to complete the project.

If the same AP and mounting type exists in the project with multiple colors, then the mount will be split out into a line item for each color. Use this if you need to define multiple types of ceiling mounts, for example.

Nearly all text fields are modifiable; hover your mouse over the field, and a Edit button (a pencil icon) will appear that you can use to change or add test.

Project Notes

The Project Notes page contains a rich text editor that you can use for any documentation purposes within the project.

The Project Notes are also editable in Hamina Planner in Report menu > Project Notes.

Online Reports

Online Reports in Hamina Network Planner provide your managers, customers, and project stakeholders with a fully interactive, read-only Hamina Network Planner interface. The user interface is very similar to Hamina Network Planner, except there are no tools, and the report viewer can navigate between heatmaps and views with a simple menu.

The heatmaps and views that the user sees are determined by which pages you show and hide.

Whenever the Online Report is loaded or refreshed, it shows the most recent version of the project, so the documentation is never out of date.

To share an Online Report, click the blue Share button in the upper right.

Next, you'll have the option to create a password for the report. Click the Create links button to create a link.

The report will be available as long as the report exists. You can click the red Revoke links button to make the report no longer accessible.

PDF Reports

If the customer requires a physical deliverable, you can generate a PDF report with the Download button in the upper right. Select Generate PDF to begin the report generation progress, at which point you will see a progress indicator. When the report has finished generating on the Hamina Cloud, the Download PDF button will become available.

Per Hamina account, only one PDF Report can be generated at a time. You won't be able to start generating a new PDF report until the previous report is finished generating.

Save Current View as Image

In the Reporting menu, the Save current view as image option downloads a snapshot of whatever is displayed on the canvas as a PNG. This includes the resolution of the canvas, the current rendering state of the selected heatmap, the zoom level and pan of the map, and any layers that are selected.

Saving in High Resolution

The resolution of the canvas is determined by the size of the web browser window on the desktop, and the resolution of the screen. If the browser isn't maximized to fill most of (or all of) the desktop, the canvas and resulting image will be of lower resolution. Similarly, a low-resolution (or low-DPI) display will produce a lower-resolution canvas and resulting image.

To produce an image of the highest quality, ensure that the browser is maximized to fill as much of the screen as possible, and consider using a high-DPI display.

Saving Without a High-Resolution Display

If you don't have a high-DPI display available, you can use the developer tools in your browser to render Hamina Network Planner in high resolution before saving the view as an image.

While this is most likely possible in every popular web browser, here's how to do it in Google Chrome:

Open the Developer Tools window.
In the upper left corner of the DevTools window, click the Toggle device toolbar button.
In the Dimensions drop-down menu, select Edit... from the list.
Back in the DevTools window, click the Add custom device button.
Configure the custom device with the desired name ("4K" in this example) and resolution (such as 3840 x 2160, which will produce an image that is slightly less than 4K), and change the User agent string dropdown menu to Desktop. Click the Add button.
Back in the main browser window, select your custom device from the Dimensions drop-down menu.
Click the Reporting button, and select Save current view as image. If you need to adjust the heatmap or layer settings, switch back to Responsive as needed, and switch back to your custom device to perform final map zooming and centering before saving the image.
When you're finished gathering images, closing the Developer Tools window will automatically switch the Device Toolbar off. Re-opening the Developer Tools window will switch the Device Toolbar back on.