Lookout 6.2 Hypertrend Panel Reports

I'm having issues getting reports with full panel graphics that contain hypertrends to properly update the trends prior to the report generation. The computer doing the reports does not actually have a monitor connected to it. I'm using it as a developer machine and I remote control to do the developing. The behavior is the same however, even with a local monitor hooked up.
Issue is that the actual screen redraw seems necessary to make the panel ready for report generation. That is, if a screen saver is on, or a different panel is over the panel in the report, the report graphic will not have updated Hypertrend traces in the panel graphic of the report.
Anyone have a workaround to fool lookout into thinking the panel is active prior to generating the report? I've tried "popping" or activating the panel many seconds prior to the panel generation, but it does not seem to help.
Strangely, one of the 19 Hypertrends on the panel is always up-to-date, and the other 18 are only up to the point of the previous report.
Cheers,
Ed
Message Edited by erblock on 04-29-2009 10:32 PM

Your queston confuses me. I have never used a html report in that way. The only thing i've used it for, is to create a static report for supervisors. For example... putting formatted data on a web page for them to view like a shift report (showing production rates, scrap rates, production hours, equipment effectiveness, etc.) The reports I make are static, fixed.
It sounds like you have it working as a 'live' page, updating information periodically. (using it as a form of a 'display only' client?)
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