The IPM Report: a graphical, interactive visualisation tool

The Traps and Pest Events modules and a range of Excel Pivot Table reports are available in the EMu Art and EMu Museum clients.

EMu's Integrated Pest Management facility also includes a powerful, web-based tool for visualising your pest data on interactive maps and floor plans of your institution.

To run the IPM Report:

Search for records in the Pest Events module.
From the Ribbon, select Home>Reports to display the Reports box:
Select IPM Viewer.
Note: The IPM Viewer may be named differently (e.g. IPM Report, Pest Mapper) in your EMu system.
Click Report to generate the report using the current record or selected A selected record is one that has been chosen either on its own or to as part of a group of records. It is usual to select the records you want to be affected by an operation before performing the operation. Selected records are used in many instances, e.g. when a number of records are to be: discarded, saved in a group, or attached to another record. A selected record displays on screen with a blue background when in List View. records
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Click Report All to generate the report using all listed records.
Your default web browser will open and display an interactive, graphical representation of your pest data mapped to ground and floor plans and various other views of your institution:

Ref	Name	Description
1	Map Controls	Click to display a drop list of options to customise the viewer and to select different views (different floor / ground plans). See Map Controls for details.
2	Help	Click to display concise on-screen Help: Click to collapse (hide) the on-screen Help.
3	Zoom in / out	Increase / decrease the zoom of the main map display. See the on-screen Help (2) for alternative methods for zooming in / out.
4	Graphical representation of an infestation	Click on a pie-chart to display infestation details to the right of the map in the Trapped Items panel (5).
5	Trapped Items	The Trapped Items panel only displays when a pie-chart is clicked (4). When a pie-chart is clicked, details of the infestation are displayed in the Trapped Items panel: Each Event # is the IRN of a record in the Pest Events module. Click an event (hyperlink), e.g. #86, to display details of the event in the Event Details panel (6).
6	Event Details	The Event Details panel only displays when an event (hyperlink) is clicked in Trapped Items panel (5). When an event (hyperlink) is clicked, details of the event display in the Event Details panel:
7	Data Filters	Various filters to control what data displays on a view of your institution (map / elevation etc.) when: Manually stepping forward / back along a timeline. Playing forward / back an entire timeline. Looping an entire timeline. See Data Filters for details.
8	Legend	In this example, pest infestation data is graphically represented by Common Name: The Legend, which displays beneath the map, explains the colour coding used in the pie-chart: What displays in a pie-chart is determined by the option selected in the Show by drop list. See Map Controls for details.

Data Filters

Ref	Object	Description
1	Radio Button	Selecting a radio button determines which list displays at 2. In the screenshot above, the Ecological Type radio button is selected and the list in box 2 is of various ecological types. You would select the Common Name radio button to change box 2 to a list of pests by Common Name, and so on.
2	Pests / ecological types	Click All or select one or more item in the list to filter which pests / ecological types are tracked when the timeline is played.
3	Life Stage	Click All or select one or more item to filter which life stage of the pests / ecological types selected in box 2 are tracked when the timeline is played.
4	Date Checked	Click All or select a range of dates for your timeline.
5	Run	Options include: Move through your timeline one step (date) at a time by clicking / . Click / to run through the entire sequence of dates (as if animated). Click to run through the entire sequence of dates (as if animated) until is clicked. Note: The button only displays when a timeline is being played.
6	Speed	Increase / decrease the speed at which the timeline is run.
		Click to reset boxes 2, 3 and 4 to their default setting (All).

Map Controls

Ref	Control	Description
1	Select Site	Various Sites can be displayed, each with one or more Views (maps / floors / elevations, etc.) upon which your pest data is mapped. In the screenshot above, the Main Site is selected. It has six available Views. We select a different site, Storage Section, which has two available Views:
2	Views	Each Site has one or more Views (maps / floors / elevations, etc.) upon which your pest data is mapped. Select the radio button for one of the Views to map your pest data against that View. In this example we select Ground Floor: The Ground Floor map displays with your pest data mapped to it:
3	Layers	Hide / show various layers on each view: Pest Report - hide / show the pie-chart representation of an infestation in each location. Pest Report Cluster Extent - hide / show the extent of an infestation in each location. In theory, each incidence of a pest is represented by an X on the map; however, all incidence of pests in a location are represented by one X as they are caught in the same trap (making this layer of limited usefulness in visualising the extent of an infestation).
4	Show by	Your pest data can be presented graphically in various ways. For example: In this case an infestation is graphed by Common Name: In this case the Legend, which displays beneath the map, explains the colour coding used in the Common Name pie-chart: Selecting a different option from the Show by drop list changes the pie-chart representation of the infestation. In this case, Life Stage has been selected: The Legend adjusts accordingly:
5	Cluster Distance	Move the slider to increase / decrease the area within which pests are recorded. The usefulness of this option depends on the view selected. As with the Pest Report Cluster Extent Layer (see above) this option has limited usefulness on a floor plan as all incidence of pests in a location are typically caught in the same trap: On a Site Plan or Elevation, the Cluster Distance is far more useful. Consider this example: The radius of the Cluster Distance is large (indicated by the dotted line). The pie-chart presents details of all incidence of pests captured within the radius of the Cluster Distance. As we reduce the size of the Cluster Distance, we zoom in on the data for finer granularity: Reducing the radius further reveals all recorded incidence of pests:
6	Marker Sizing	Move the slider to increase / decrease the size of the pie-chart representation of the infestation:
		Click to collapse (hide) the Map Controls.