Of course, Clever Logger provides a much more timely alert than some twice daily manual check – your Clever Logger check them temperature ever five minutes and can notify you immediately if there’s a problem. It doesn’t get any more timely than that.

We just want you to slow down a moment and really understand what we just said.

The intent of Strive for Five was to have a timely alert to any breach and Clever Logger blows that requirement out of the water.

Which means the reason why you want the twice daily min/max is not for record keeping, but for responsiveness.

Unfortunately we know you need to comply with this archaic rule where the focus is on the report, and not on the intent.

In Clever Logger there are two ways of doing this.

The same passage says …

If a data logger is used for routine temperature monitoring (instead of a minimum/maximum thermometer), it must have a visual display of minimum/maximum temperatures to allow twice-daily real-time readings to be viewed and manually recorded.

Visual display? No problem. We have given you two ways to do this…

Automatically - the twice daily email

Sure.

Clever Logger can send you an email twice a day with the minimum and maximum temperatures.

See this article – Twice Daily Reports

THIS IS OUR RECOMMENDED METHOD. It is still very close to the event and is the equivalent to manually checking your fridge twice a day.

Keep in mind, however, that Clever Logger will have already alerted you if there was a problem. The report is redundant, but it makes the auditor feel good.

Manually - the historical view, way after the event

Clever Logger allows you to see the data as a graph and as a table.

A relatively new feature is to show the table as a twice daily min/max summary. This appears to be a perfect answer to the need of recording the min/max temperatures twice a day, and many users are doing this. It is here by popular demand and it is widely used.

This is NOT our recommended method. This method totally ticks the “record keeping” aspect, but users typically run it at the end of the month. It is so far after the event that it totally defeats the purpose of the twice daily check.

But then our immediate notifications are doing their job and if you want a lazy twice daily summary, then this is how to do it…

Select Locations in the main menu.

Then select a location to see its detail page. By default, this will show the location’s graph.

Choose Table from the submenu.

Above the table are the date range selectors, and three different data options:

All Readings will show you all the readings for the selected date range. This can be handy for a quick lookup, but it is often easier to generate a Report than to export data from here.
Daily Min-Max will show you the highest and lowest temperatures for each day.
Half Daily Min-Max will show you the highest and lowest temperatures for the morning and afternoon. This is the one we want.

As you can see from the image, Half Daily Min-Max is our “visual display” of the morning and afternoon extremes – ready to be manually copied to your log. Any temperatures below the alarm limit will have a blue background, and temperatures above the alarm limit will have a red background, as illustrated above.