REPORTS TAB

Overview

To access the Report Manager, you simply need to click the Reports Tab from the navigation tabs. The navigation tabs allow you to quickly access the major features of FitTrend.

The purpose of the Reports Tab is to provide you with the following features:

• Create detailed reports based on your runs, races, events, activities, and notes

Creating Reports

You have taken the time and logged your runs, races, and activities. Now you want to analyze all your hard work to see if you are accomplishing your long term running goals. FitTrend provides an easy to follow three step Report Wizard to create the reports that you want.

To start the Report Wizard, simply click the Reports Tab or the "Create New Report" hyperlink in the left column of the Report Manager as shown below.

After clicking the Report Tab or Create New Report Hyperlink, the first step of the Report Wizard will be displayed on the right column of the Report Manager. Step 1 allows you to define which report template to use. FitTrend has many different Report Templates available to you. For detailed descriptions of each report template, click here.

Once you have selected the report template, click the Continue button to move to the next step of the Report Wizard.

The second step of the Report Wizard allows you to define the range of runs, races, events, activities, and/or notes that will be included in this report. You also have the option to exclude runs, races, events, activities, and/or notes that fall on a certain days of the week.

After defining the range of dates and any days of the week to exclude, you can click the Continue button to move to the last step of the Report Wizard.

The last step of the Report Wizard contain different options depending on which Report Template you have chosen.

Once you have selected the final settings for this report, clicking Continue will generate your report.

If there is no data for the report parameters that you specify, FitTrend's Report Manager will print an error message on the screen. At that point, you can click the Modify button to change the settings for this report.

Saving Reports

At the bottom of every report, there are three buttons. These buttons will vary depending on if its a new report or an existing report.

With new reports, you can save a report by clicking the Save button. With already saved reports, you would click the Update button to save any changes. Regardless of whether you are saving a new or existing report, your saved reports will appear in the left column. At anytime, you can click a report name from the left column to regenerate that report.

Clicking the Modify button will return you to the first step of the Report Wizard to allow you to make any adjustments to the current report settings.

Clicking the New button will return you to the first step of the Report Wizard allowing you to create a new report.

Editing Reports

You may take the time to create dozens of reports that you reference every time you add a new run, race, event, activity, or note. However, there will be times that you will want to tweak an existing reports. Instead of create a new report, you can click the icon beside an existing report name in the left column. Once clicked, the current settings of your report will be loaded into the Report Wizard. Then, you will be able to change your settings as you move through the three steps of the Report Wizard.

At the bottom of the report, you can save these changes by clicking the Update button.

Deleting Reports

There may come a time when you no longer want a saved reported. At anytime you can click the icon beside the report name in the left column to delete it. You will be required to confirm whether you wish to delete this report. Once confirmed, the left column will update automatically to reflect that your report was successfully deleted.

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