Generate and Use the Project Billing Report

Dashboard > Generate Billing Report

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From the Dashboard item in the Navigation Tree, you can click Billing Report to generate a detailed Billing Report for the Project. Once this report is generated, you can download it (using the Work Basket Download option for the associated task).

This report is not configurable (for example, by File Type). This makes it different from the reports that can be configured at the Project, Organization, and System level using the Billing Reports settings. (See Project Billing Reports for more information.) If you rely on the configurable Billing Reports, you can still use the Dashboard's generated Project Billing Report to view Summary and Detail Information for the different types of Exports.

This report is a snapshot of the imports and the different types of Exports for the Project. It contains the total amount of data imported and exported at the time you generated the report.

Note: The Project Billing report contains details for each non-deleted Data Set and each non-deleted Export (eDiscovery Export). Deleted Data Sets and deleted Exports are not included in this report.

Depending on the size of the Project and how much data you have imported and exported, this report may take time to generate.

The Download file is an XSLX file with three tabs:

• Summary
• Import Details
• Export Details

Note: If you continuously add data or export data and want to run the report to get updated information, you may want to provide a unique name each time you download the report, to maintain different versions.

Summary Tab Information

The Summary tab of the report provides an overall view of the imports and exports performed in the Project.

The top of the Summary tab provides the following Project-specific information:

• Project name (for example, Project: project10-14 )
• Project (for example, Project ID: 8884375)
• Project GUID (for example, Project GUID: 00000000b9999cf88ae99999)

The Summary tab has the following main sections:

• Import Summary
• Export Summary

Import Summary

The Import Summary displays Doc Class, Count, and Size information (in bytes) for the all imports of data in the Project. The entries include the following (although note that they may not appear in this exact order in the report):

• Source Files — The total number and size of source files imported in the Project. These files are not extracted from any other file.
• Extracted Files — The total number and size of files extracted from other files in the Project. This includes files within container files (archives).
• Message – The total number and size of email messages (but not their attachments). An email file on disk or an email file found in a ZIP file at the import location falls into this category. Email attachments and archive container files such as PST, OST, and NSF are not counted in this category.
• Message Attachment– The total number and size of all imported email attachments. Examples include an image file or Word document attached to an email, or an archive such as a Zip file attached to an email.
• Non-NIST EDoc – The total number and size of EDocs that are not NIST files (that is, all imported Non-NIST EDoc files that are not an email, not from an email, not an embedded document, and not any type of archive (for example, not a file or email archive).
• EDoc_OLE_Attachment – The total number and size of all files that were embedded within an EDoc (or another EDoc_OLE_Attachment). These embedded files are extracted during import. You can drill through this entry to see a list of documents that were embedded within an EDoc (or another EDoc_OLE_Attachment). Examples include a Word document within another Word document, or even an email embedded within a Word document.
• Message_OLE_Attachment – The total number and size of all files embedded within a Message_Attachment (or another Message_OLE_Attachment). These embedded files are extracted during import. You can drill through this entry to see a list of documents that were embedded with a Message_Attachment (or another Message_OLE_Attachment). An example of this document class is a document embedded within a Word document that is attached to an email.
• OCR Documents — The total number and size of documents from which the OCR software successfully extracted text or the number of documents that the OCR software attempted to process. 
• OCR Pages — The total number of pages successfully processed by the OCR software. Note that the size for OCR Pages is not calculated and is always reported as 0.
• Archive – The total number and size of documents that are file archives or in compressed format (for example, a GZIP, ZIP, RAR, or TAR file found on disk).
• Disk Image – The total number and size of documents that are disk images, such as an Expert Witness Compression Format File (for example, for EnCase and SMART).
• Directory – The total number and size of directories (empty, populated, skipped, or with access errors).
• EDoc – The total number and size of all files imported that are not an email, not from an email, not an embedded document, and not any type of archive (for example, not a file or email archive). These are files that do not fall into any of the following other document classes: emails, email archives (containers) such as PST, OST, and NSF, any type of attachment, file archives (compressed files such as ZIP), or disk images.
• Message Archive – The total number and size of files that are Email Archives (email container files such as PST, OST, NSF found on disk).
• NIST EDoc – The total number and size of EDocs that are NIST The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which provides the National Software Reference Library (NSRL). The NSRL includes a Reference Data Set of digital signatures for known, traceable software applications. The list is used to identify files with no evidentiary value. Digital Reef provides the NSRL database to support detection of files with signatures (hash codes) matching those in the NSRL database upon import. DeNIST refers to the removal of any file that has a digital signature matching one in the NIST NSRL list. files.
• Non-NIST_Message_Attachment — The total number and size of non-NIST The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which provides the National Software Reference Library (NSRL). The NSRL includes a Reference Data Set of digital signatures for known, traceable software applications. The list is used to identify files with no evidentiary value. Digital Reef provides the NSRL database to support detection of files with signatures (hash codes) matching those in the NSRL database upon import. DeNIST refers to the removal of any file that has a digital signature matching one in the NIST NSRL list. Message Attachments.
• NIST_Message_Attachment — The total number and size of message attachments that are NIST files.
• Total Documents — The total number and size of all documents imported (from all Data Sets). This total includes all source files, extracted files, and directories. This total is shown in boldface.

eDiscovery Exports Summary

This summary displays the total size and count information per Doc Class for all files (for example, native files, text files, and PDFs) that are part of eDiscovery Exports performed in the Project:

Note: Support for export of TIFFs applies to exports prior to 5.2.5.x.

• Doc Class – An entry appears in the Doc Class column for each document class exported in the Project.
• Native Count –  Per Doc Class, the total number of native files exported.
• Native Size– Per Doc Class, the total size (in bytes) of native files exported.
• Text Count – Per Doc Class, the total number of text files exported.
• Text Size – Per Doc Class, the total size (in bytes) of text files exported.
• PDF Count – Per Doc Class, the total number of PDF files exported.
• PDF Size – Per Doc Class, the total size (in bytes) of PDF files exported.
• PDF Total Page Count – Per Doc Class, the total page count of exported PDFs.
• TIFF Count – Per Doc Class, the total number of exported TIFF files (that is, TIFFs exported prior to 5.2.5.x).
• TIFF Size – Total size of exported TIFF files (that is, TIFFs exported prior to 5.2.5.x).
• TIFF Total Page Count – Per Doc Class, the total page count of exported TIFFs (for example, if multi-page TIFFs are part of an Export). This applies to TIFFs exported prior to 5.2.5.x.

Import Details

The Import Details tab of the report contains information about each Data Set imported in the Project.

• Data Set – The name of the Data Set, shown in boldface.
• Import Date – The date on which the Data Set was imported (for example, 10/14/2014). This date is shown in boldface.

It provides the following Doc Class, Count, and Size information (in bytes) for each Data Set:

• Source Files — For a given Data Set, the total number and size of source files. These files are not extracted from any other file.
• Extracted Files — For a given Data Set, the total number and size of files extracted from other files. This includes files within container files (archives).
• Message – For a given Data Set, the total number and size of email messages (but not their attachments). An email file on disk or an email file found in a ZIP file at the import location falls into this category. Email attachments and archive container files such as PST, OST, and NSF are not counted in this category.
• Message Attachment– For a given Data Set, the total number and size of all imported email attachments. Examples include an image file or Word document attached to an email, or an archive such as a Zip file attached to an email.
• Non-NIST EDoc – For a given Data Set, the total number and size of EDocs that are not NIST files (that is, a Non-NIST EDoc files that are not an email, not from an email, not an embedded document, and not any type of archive (for example, not a file or email archive.
• EDoc_OLE_Attachment –For a given Data Set, the total number and size of all files that were embedded within an EDoc (or another EDoc_OLE_Attachment). These embedded files are extracted during import. You can drill through this entry to see a list of documents that were embedded within an EDoc (or another EDoc_OLE_Attachment). Examples include a Word document within another Word document, or even an email embedded within a Word document.
• Message_OLE_Attachment – For a given Data Set, the total number and size of all files embedded within a Message_Attachment (or another Message_OLE_Attachment). These embedded files are extracted during import. You can drill through this entry to see a list of documents that were embedded with a Message_Attachment (or another Message_OLE_Attachment). An example of this document class is a document embedded within a Word document that is attached to an email.
• OCR Documents — For a given Data Set, the total number and size of documents from which the OCR software successfully extracted text or the number of documents that the OCR software attempted to process. 
• OCR Pages — For a given Data Set, the total number and size of pages successfully processed by the OCR software.
• Archive –For a given Data Set, the total number and size of documents that are file archives or in compressed format (for example, a GZIP, ZIP, RAR, or TAR file found on disk).
• Disk Image – For a given Data Set, the total number and size of documents that are disk images, such as an Expert Witness Compression Format File (for example, for EnCase and SMART).
• Directory – For a given Data Set, the total number and size of directories (empty, populated, skipped, or with access errors).
• EDoc – For a given Data Set, the total number and size of files that are not an email, not from an email, not an embedded document, and not any type of archive (for example, not a file or email archive). These are files that do not fall into any of the following other document classes: emails, email archives (containers) such as PST, OST, and NSF, any type of attachment, file archives (compressed files such as ZIP), or disk images.
• Message Archive –For a given Data Set, the total number and size of files that are Email Archives (email container files such as PST, OST, NSF found on disk).
• NIST EDoc – For a given Data Set, the total number and size of EDocs that are NIST The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which provides the National Software Reference Library (NSRL). The NSRL includes a Reference Data Set of digital signatures for known, traceable software applications. The list is used to identify files with no evidentiary value. Digital Reef provides the NSRL database to support detection of files with signatures (hash codes) matching those in the NSRL database upon import. DeNIST refers to the removal of any file that has a digital signature matching one in the NIST NSRL list. files.
• Non-NIST_Message_Attachment — For a given Data Set, the total number and size of non-NIST The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which provides the National Software Reference Library (NSRL). The NSRL includes a Reference Data Set of digital signatures for known, traceable software applications. The list is used to identify files with no evidentiary value. Digital Reef provides the NSRL database to support detection of files with signatures (hash codes) matching those in the NSRL database upon import. DeNIST refers to the removal of any file that has a digital signature matching one in the NIST NSRL list. Message Attachments.
• NIST_Message_Attachment — For a given Data Set, the total number and size of message attachments that are NIST files.
• Total Documents — For a given Data Set, the total number and size of documents imported. This total includes all source files, extracted files, and directories. This total is shown in boldface.

Export Details

The Export Details tab of the report contains information about each Volume of each eDiscovery Export Stream in the Project:

• Stream – The name of a given Stream in the Project:
• Volume – The Volume (for example, VOL0001 or VOL0002). All the Volumes for a given Stream appear under that Stream, in order.
• Export Data – The date on which the Export of a Volume occurred.

eDiscovery Exports

This section displays the total size and count information per Doc Class for all files (for example, native files, text files, and PDFs) that are part of each eDiscovery Export (each Volume of each Export Stream) performed in the Project:

Note: Support for export of TIFFs applies to exports prior to 5.2.5.x.

• Doc Class – An entry appears in the Doc Class column for each document class exported as part of an eDiscovery Export. The information in parentheses indicates whether the format was the Native file format, or, for eligible mail-related files, whether eligible files were converted to HTML, MHTML, or a mix of HTML/MHTML.
• Native Count –  Per Doc Class, the total number of native files exported in a given Volume of an eDiscovery Export Stream.
• Native Size– Per Doc Class, the total size (in bytes) of native files exported in a given Volume of an eDiscovery Export Stream.
• Text Count – Per Doc Class, the total number of text files exported in a given Volume of an eDiscovery Export Stream.
• Text Size – Per Doc Class, the total size (in bytes) of text files exported in a given Volume of an eDiscovery Export Stream.
• PDF Count – Per Doc Class, the total number of PDF files exported in a given Volume of an eDiscovery Export Stream.
• PDF Size – Per Doc Class, the total size (in bytes) of PDF files exported in a given Volume of an eDiscovery Export Stream.
• PDF Total Page Count – Total page count of exported PDFs in a given Volume of an eDiscovery Export Stream.
• TIFF Count – Total number of exported TIFF files in a given Volume of an eDiscovery Export Stream (that is, TIFFs exported prior to 5.2.5.x).
• TIFF Size – Total size of exported TIFF files in a given Volume of an eDiscovery Export Stream (that is, TIFFs exported prior to 5.2.5.x).
• TIFF Total Page Count – Total page count of exported TIFFs (for example, if multi-page TIFFs are part of a Volume Export of an Export Stream prior to 5.2.5.x).