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Labor Forecast Report |
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The labor forecast report displays the jobs that have been assigned to your personnel over a given period of time. You obtain a labor forecast report with Unit Maintenance Plans | Reports | Labor Forecast Report.
Note: In order to create this report, MainBoss must do the same amount of work that's required to generate preventive maintenance work orders. This can take a great deal of time, especially if you have a lot of unit maintenance plans.
By default, the report covers the forthcoming week, starting today and ending a week from today. To change the report's period, set the "From Date" and "To Date" values in the Filtering section of the report window.
The report window contains the following:
Grouping section: Options controlling how the report is organized.
Group by list: These options determine how the report is broken into sections. Each section will start with a heading, and may have a footer as well. If you select a Group by option, one or more Then group by lists may appear to let you break sections into subsections.
Sort Direction: Determines whether grouping will go from lowest to highest (Ascending) or highest to lowest (Descending). Sort Direction options only appear if you pick an option where sort direction is relevant.
Sorting section: Options controlling how the contents of groups are sorted.
Sort by list: These options determine how records are sorted within each group. If you select a Sort by option, one or more Then sort by lists may appear to let you refine the sorting process.
Sort Direction: Determines whether sorting will go from lowest to highest (Ascending) or highest to lowest (Descending). Sort Direction options only appear if you pick an option where sort direction is relevant.
Filtering section: Options controlling what kind of information will be included in the report. The window lets you select work orders in several ways:
Labor Filters: Make selections based on the worker. For example, if you filter by Employee, you can restrict the print-out to a particular set of employees.
Work Filters: Make selections based on properties of the work. For example, if you filter by Work Category, you can restrict the print-out to work in a particular set of categories.
Unit Filters: Make selections based on the unit involved. For example, if you filter by Unit Location, you can restrict the print-out to work orders on units at a particular location (e.g. all work orders in a specific building).
Advanced section: Miscellaneous options.
Suppress Costs: Omits any money information that might otherwise be displayed in the report.
Format Report in Columns: If this checkbox is checkmarked, the report will have information formatted in columns; this has the advantage of compressing a lot of information into a small amount of space, but may be difficult to read, especially if you ask for many pieces of information to be displayed. If the checkbox is blank, information will be laid out in a less rigid format.
Title: The title to be printed at the beginning of the report.
Font Size: The font size to be used for all standard characters in the print-out (i.e. anything that isn't a heading).
Main Font: The font that will be used for most of the characters in the report. This should be a font that is supported by both your Windows system and your printer.
Fixed-width Font: The font that will be used for information that is printed with fixed-width characters (mostly unit specifications). This should be a font that is supported by both your Windows system and your printer.
Show checkboxes: A list of checkboxes that let you determine what information is displayed in the report. If a box is checkmarked, that type of information will be displayed; if a box is blank, that type of information will not be displayed.
Preview section: Displays a visual preview of the report. If you click the Preview button, you automatically go to this section.
The Preview section contains buttons for looking through the report preview and for actually printing the information. For more on using the Preview section, see Report Buttons.
Preview: Clicking this button generates a preview of the report, displayed in the Preview section of the window.
Print: Immediately prints the report.
Export Data: Exports the report's data in XML format.
Cancel: Cancels the preparation and printing of a report. This button is enabled only when MainBoss is preparing a report, i.e. gathering the data and formatting it. For more information, see Report Buttons.
Close: Closes the window.
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