Basic Functionality

The Report Manager Form is designed to ease the burden of printing repetitive reports for games. It allows the user to create and manage sets of reports that can be printed for any and all games.

Mover List

A Mover List consists of two scroll boxes and a set of buttons. The objective is to move the items between the boxes until the desired selections have been made. Any highlighted selections can be moved with the > or < buttons. All available elements may be moved with the > and < buttons. Multiple selections may be made by holding down the shift key and clicking additional items. Selections may also be moved by 'double clicking' or by using the 'drag and drop' method.

Use the upper Mover List on this form to Select Games.

Use the lower Mover List on this form to Select Reports.  

There are two Mover Lists on the Report Manager form. The upper Mover List (shown below) is the Available Games list. This control allows you to select a game or a group of games to generate reports.

A Mover Lists consists of 2 scroll boxes and a set of buttons. The objective is to move the items between the boxes until the desired selections have been made. Any highlighted selections can be moved with the > or < buttons. All available elements may be moved with the > and < buttons. Multiple selections may be made by holding down the shift key and clicking additional items. Selections may also be moved by 'double clicking' or by using the 'drag and drop' method.

You must also Select Reports before using the Report Manager form Print Reports.

Printing and Viewing Reports

Use the Report Manager form to generate reports. Easy-Scout will use information from the Selected Games in the upper Mover List to send the Selected Reports to the Screen or Printer depending which button/icon is clicked. This allows you to generate a single report and/or print multiple reports in succession.

There must be at least one Selected Game and one Selected Report to print or View Reports. To print Standard, or Basic reports without “filtering” the data, the process is identical to that in Easy-Scout XP - with the one possible exception that it is possible to specify any Printer (or PDF, MDI etc) as the output destination.

1. The Printer selection list makes it possible to send the Report to a printer other than the Default Windows Printer (Easy-Scout XP only prints to the Windows default printer).  It will display the Default printer and no further action is required in order to print to the default printer. Clicking the Printer select list will display all printers defined in Windows, from which it is possible to select one for this particular set of reports. 
    

2. If a PDF printer driver or the Microsoft Office Document Image Writer is available, reports can be sent to a file on your computer.  This is very handy for distributing reports by email or for archiving them electronically or both.  Printing to file is best done one report at a time since it will be necessary to name each report and specify its folder location. 

Tip! Try to review your Report List before sending reports to the Printer to ensure that you are not tempted to interrupt the printing process.

IMPORTANT - DO NOT INTERRUPT THE PRINTING PROCESS ONCE IT BEGINS!

Once your reports are selected, and you choose either View Reports or Print Reports, you can't stop the Report Engine until all of the reports are printed (or viewed). You MUST allow Easy-Scout to send all of the selected reports to the Printer or to the Screen.

If you choose View Reports, clicking the square (stop) VCR button will close the report on the screen and display the next one until all reports that you selected are displayed on the screen.

If you choose Print Reports, you will need to wait until the reports are all sent to your printer.

NOTE: Depending on how your printer is configured, you may be able to stop some of the reports from actually being printed by opening the Windows Printer Utility that shows in the lower right corner and deleted some of the print jobs. Do not attempt this unless you are an experienced Windows user.

View Reports

Click the View Reports icon to send all of the selected reports to the Screen in succession. Easy-Scout "hands control" over to the Reporting Engine until all reports are printed. The toolbar below will be displayed in the Upper Left corner of your screen when the Report Engine is running.

In the example above, even though you are in the View Reports mode, you can Print the report on the screen by clicking the Printer button on the toolbar. To skip the report, click the square close (Stop) VCR button. The next report in the sequence will appear on the screen.

Note the title at the top of the Screen. When the Report Engine is running the title bar will always display the report name followed by the .rrw extension. This is an abbreviation for the report name, which s followed by R&R XBase. Report abbreviations follow a naming convention that uses the first letter of the name of the report. For example Overall Formation Tendencies is OFT, Hole Frequency by Down and Distance is HFDD and so on.

Print Reports

Easy-Scout will use information form the Selected Games in the upper Mover List to send the Selected Reports to the printer. This allows you to generate a single report and/or print multiple reports in succession.

Working with Groups

Groups of reports may be defined and saved for later use. These groups can be managed with the following controls. The default report group is "All available reports,” as shown below.

The All Available Reports group is automatically loaded on startup. To select a new group of reports, click the red down arrow beside the textbox and choose another group from this pick list.

A new group can be created by pressing the New Group button. The group selection textbox will empty and allow the user to type the new group name. Next, to save to selected reports in the group press Save Group the New Group button will remain active until saved or until clicked again to cancel the operation.

Appending and removing reports from a group can be accomplished in a similar manner. Use the VCR buttons to edit the Selected Reports list and then click the Save Group button.

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