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Printing Unit Maintenance Plans |
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The most recent version of MainBoss is MainBoss 4.2.4.
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You can print your current unit maintenance plans by clicking the Print button in Coding Definitions | Unit Maintenance Plans. MainBoss will open a window that 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 unit maintenance plans will be included in the report. For example, if you filter by Unit Location, you can restrict the print-out to unit maintenance plans on a particular unit or in a particular location.
Show deleted records: If this box is checkmarked, the report will include deleted records. Otherwise, deleted records are omitted from the report.
Advanced section: Miscellaneous options.
Suppress Costs: Omits any money information that might otherwise be displayed in the report.
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.
For more on unit maintenance plans, see Unit Maintenance Plans. For more on reports in general, see Reports.
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