Viewing Smi reports without collecting data

In Smi 2.0 you have the ability to define multiple sites in the file Smartsite.ManagementInformation.config. This allows you to e.g. collect data in two or more subsites using filtering, but you can also create a scenario where you are collecting data of your current webserver in one Smi database but you have the ability to view Smi report of a different website. You can create this scenario by defining two <site /> element in the Smartsite.ManagementInformation.config file and giving one site the type "CollectAndReport" and giving the other site the type "RemoteReport". There are four possibilities for the attribute type: collect, collectandreport, report and remotereport. Collect means data is collected but you cannot watch the report, collectandreport means data is collected and you can watch the report, report means no data is collected and you can only watch the report. RemoteReport also means that no data is collected and you can only watch the report. The difference is that RemoteReport should be used for Smi reports for data that is collected on a site other than the current site. If Report is used, Smi assumes the item numbers in the report match the item numbers of the current site. If RemoteReport is used, Smi assumes the item numbers in the report do not correspond to items in the current site.

In this example (in the Smartsite.ManagementInformation.config file), the first site is collecting data and you can watch its reports. The second is not collecting data but you can view its reports. It assumes the item numbers in the Smi reports do not match the item numbers in the current website.

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<site name="myfirstsite" description="My first site" type="collectandreport" /> <site name="mysecondsite" description="My second site" type="remotereport" />