Unit Maintenance History

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The Maintenance History report lists information about work orders on units. A large number of options let you select which work orders and units should be covered by the report.

Note: This report only takes into account work orders that have already been closed. If you want to include work orders that haven't been closed yet, you can use the Work Order History report, grouping by unit and specifying other options as appropriate. For more, see Work Order History Report.

To print a maintenance history report, go to Units | Reports | Maintenance History. The window contains the following:

Grouping section: Options controlling how the report is broken into sections and sub-sections.

Sorting section: Options controlling how records are sorted within each section and sub-section.

For more on how to use Grouping and Sorting, see Report Sections.

Filters section: Options controlling which units and work orders will be included in the report. For more information, see Report Filters.

Include Inactive records: If this checkbox is checkmarked, all relevant records will be included in the report, no matter how old they are. If this checkbox is blank, only active records will be included; this means that old "inactive" records will be ignored.

For more about the active filter, see The Active Filter.

Field Selection section: Options controlling which information fields will be included in the report.

Suppress Costs: Omits any money information that might otherwise be displayed in the report.

Advanced section: Miscellaneous options.

Summary Format: If this checkbox is checkmarked, you don't see information on individual units; instead, you get a summary of all requests in a particular group, as dictated by the options specified in the Grouping section. For example, if you are grouping by Category, you will get a summary for each unit category.

Report width in pages: Makes it possible to have lines that are wider than a single page. This is particularly useful when you are previewing reports on a monitor screen. For further information, see Report Sections.

Title: The title to be printed at the beginning of the report.

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.

Preview section: Displays a visual preview of the report. If you click the 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.

: Clicking this button generates a preview of the report, displayed in the Preview section of the window.

: 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 general information on MainBoss reports, see Reports. For more on units, see Units.

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