Once you have used the reports a few times, you may remember what the end result is supposed to look like, but cannot remember the report type name. Before describing the individual wizard pages, below is a sample generated report.
The Task Summary Report is the only report that you can select any Task in the system, regardless of where it is found in the database. Select the Task you wish to report on, and click Next.
Selecting to report on an object that contains descendants will report on the descendants also. For example, selecting to report on Organization Units will report on all the Learners within the Organization Unit. Selecting to report on Employees only will report on the individual Employees.
Create Filters with the use of the Add Report Filter dialog.
A Filter is a way of "weeding through" the information and only showing exactly what you are looking for. For example, if you wanted to start using certain functionality that you never made use of before, you may wish to see all Employees without an email address, so that you could enter it, and without a Primary Process, so that you could set it. This would narrow down your list to only show the ones that need to be worked on.
This report may be generated for one of two reasons:
You wish to know who is currently completed on Task(s), possibly in order to fill a position that requires immediate attention. In this case, you would select to report on Employees with Complete Tasks only.
You wish to know who is currently incomplete on Task(s) - in the case of a pending audit or other critical deadline. Selecting Employees who are incomplete on Tasks allows you to contact them with a reminder to complete their Tasks within the deadline.
Select specific properties of the listed objects that you wish to add to the report. For more information on how report properties are displayed and used, click here.
This page allows you to select two report formats: a view format and a mail attachment format.
View format - this is how the report will be displayed within TRACCESS. For this report, the view formats are: TRACCESS Report, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Excel Data Only, Adobe Acrobat PDF and Microsoft Word Document.
Mail attachment format - this is the format that will be sent to your Inbox after the report has finished generating. For the Qualification Pie Chart report, the mail attachment formats are: TRACCESS Report, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Excel Data Only, Adobe Acrobat PDF and Microsoft Word Document.
Depending on what you wish to do with the report afterwards, you will want to select different mail attachment formats. If you wish to manipulate the data, choose Microsoft Excel. If you wish to keep the report as-is, select the Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
Create zip file for the attachment - This will decrease the overall file size allowing you to generate and receive larger reports. However, you may wish to check whether or not attachments with a *.zip extension are currently being blocked by your email system before checking this option.
If the generated report is larger than the value shown in this dialog, you will receive a message indicating the completion status of the report, and that it was unable to include the attachment due to its size. In this case, you can still view the report within TRACCESS, and subsequently export it.
If the mail attachment format and the create zip file fields are disabled, this means that the option to attach generated reports to completion emails has been disabled for your installation.