Monitoring Events Status

With the Events Status tool, you can view the status of all unique events triggered in your system. In addition, you can view the events run for a specific symbol and export event status information to Excel.

Accessing the Events Status tool

You can access the Events Status tool from the following locations, depending on the setup of your system and the products you have purchased:

• Longview Close — The Events Status tool is available from the Consolidate module in the Administration category of the navigation pane under the Monitoring folder.
• Longview Dashboard — The Events Status tool is included with Longview Dashboard Designer as a system panel. Your System Administrator must add this panel to the appropriate Dashboard pages for you to access it.
• Longview Transfer Pricing — The Events Status tool is available from the Transfer Pricing module in the Administration category of the navigation pane under the Monitoring folder.
• Longview Tax — The Events Status tool is available from the Tax Provision module in the Administration category of the navigation pane under the Monitoring folder.

To access the Events Status tool in Close:

1. From the Consolidate module, click on the Administration category.
2. Expand the Monitoring folder.
3. Click Events Status. The Events Status tool opens in the workspace.

To access the Events Status tool from your Longview Dashboard:

1. On your Longview Dashboard page, click the View Events Status link in the Events Status panel. The Events Status tool opens in a new window.

To access the Events tool in Longview Transfer Pricing:

1. From the Transfer Pricing module, click on the Administration category.
2. Expand the Monitoring folder.
3. Click Events Status. The Events Status tool opens in the workspace.

To access the Events Status tool in Tax Provision:

1. From the Tax Provision module, click on the Administration category.
2. Expand the Monitoring folder.
3. Click Events Status. The Events Status tool opens in the workspace.

Viewing Event status

You can use the Events Status tool to view the ID, status, and creation or completion time of all unique events that have been triggered in your system. You can also view the events run for a specific symbol.

To view event status:

1. Open the Events Status tool using the appropriate method.

   

2. Review the following information:

   1. Status Indicator: The icon to the left of the event. The Status Indicator is a visual indication of the status of the event. Possible icons include the following:

   2. Green icon with check mark — The event status is Completed.
   3. Red icon with X — The event status is Error or Incomplete.
   4. Yellow icon with exclamation point — The event status is In Progress or Pending.
   5. The Status Indicator icon in the header row is dependent on the status of all events in the list. Possible icons include the following:
   6. Green icon with check mark — The status of all events in the list is Completed.
   7. Red icon with X — Any events in the list have a status of Error or Incomplete.
   8. Yellow icon with exclamation point — Any events in the list have a status of In Progress or Pending, and no events in the list have a status of Error or Incomplete.

   9. Event: The description of the event.

   10. ID: The system-assigned ID of the event.

   11. Status: The icon to the left of the event. The Status Indicator is a visual indication of the status of the event. Possible icons include the following:

   12. Green icon with check mark — The event status is Completed.
   13. Red icon with X — The event status is Error or Incomplete.
   14. Yellow icon with exclamation point — The event status is In Progress or Pending.
   15. The Status Indicator icon in the header row is dependent on the status of all events in the list. Possible icons include the following:
   16. Green icon with check mark — The status of all events in the list is Completed.
   17. Red icon with X — Any events in the list have a status of Error or Incomplete.
   18. Yellow icon with exclamation point — Any events in the list have a status of In Progress or Pending, and no events in the list have a status of Error or Incomplete.

   19. Last Run: The date and time that the event completed (if the event status is Completed) or the date and time that the event was created (if the event status is Error, In Progress, Incomplete, or Pending). The date and time appears in the following format:

       mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss AM/PM

3. To search the list by event description, type the characters that you want to search for in the Search Events field. Matching characters are highlighted in the Event column.
   1. Click Next to select the next event row containing highlighted characters.
   2. Click X to clear the Search Events field and remove all highlighting.
4. To refresh the events list at any time, click Refresh. This updates the list to reflect events currently in the system and removes any highlighting applied by a search.

Note: Clicking Refresh does not return a sorted list to the default sort order.

Exporting Event status to Microsoft Excel

You can use the Events Status tool to export event status information to Microsoft Excel.

To export event status to Microsoft Excel:

1. Open the Events Status tool using the appropriate method. For more information, see Accessing the Events Status tool.
2. Click Export to Excel. A Save As dialog opens.
3. Navigate to the location where you want the file to be saved.
4. Type the name of the file you want the event status information to be exported to.
5. Click Save. The file opens in Microsoft Excel.