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<h1>Report Templates<img src="../../../shared/menu-arrow.jpg" alt=" &gt; " />Activity</h1>

<ul class="direct"><li>Note: this feature is only included in the standard edition of Simon, not Simon Express and Simon Free.  <a href="../../editions.html">Learn more...</a></li></ul>

<p>This page has information about the <b>Activity</b> block, and variables valid within this scope.  See the <a href="./index.html"><b>Report Templates</b></a> page for more information about Simon's report templates.</p>

<p>The <b>Activity</b> block includes variables about activity &mdash; i.e. values displayed in Simon's <b>Monitor</b> window in the <a href="../../monitor/activity.html">activity</a> log.</p>

<p>Variables are tags in the file that are replaced by another value when the report is used.  Variables are enclosed in curly braces, and have a variable name optionally followed by any number of parameters, e.g. <b>{date type="relative"}</b>.  See the <a href="./params.html">parameters</a> page for information on the available parameters.</p>

<p>The variables that are available in this scope include:</p>

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<tr><td nowrap><b>Variable:</b></td><td nowrap><b>Outputs:</b></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Date</td><td valign="top">The date and time of the activity.</td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Type</td><td valign="top">The type of activity, e.g. Service, Filter, Notifier, Test start, etc.</td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Kind</td><td valign="top">The kind of activity, i.e. the plug-in kind, e.g. Web, Number, etc.</td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Name</td><td valign="top">The name of the test that this relates to.</td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Status</td><td valign="top">The status of the action: unchanged, changed, failure, recovery, etc.  Also supports icon output.</td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Details</td><td valign="top">Additional information, typically the output of the service and filters.</td></tr>
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