The Reports Tab

The Reports Tab

The Reports Tab (on the Class Time Editor Window) allows you to schedule Martial Class™ to automatically print any selected report for you at a predetermined time either before or after the start of that particular class (every time the class runs).

Unlike many other systems, Martial Class™ allows you to schedule any reports you wish to be printed around the start of any class. And they can differ for each of your class times.

You use the right-click menu to add and delete reports to print for this class time.

The example above demonstrates three reports configured to print for a particular class, the reports are configured as follows:

Full Class Report is scheduled to run 1 minute after the start of class.

Class Attendance is scheduled to run 10 minutes before the start of class.

Class Attendance is scheduled to run a second time when the class starts.

Output

By default, the report prints to the system default printer. You also have the ability through the Output column, to also redirect reports to a disk file.

If you select Disk file in the output column, then the disk file that is created will be given the same name as the report you are printing. But it will overwrite any file of the same name. Therefore, if you are intending to archive a historical set of reports for this class, then you will need to install a small scheduled process to run just after the report is generated, to either rename the report file, zip it up, or move/copy it.

You will also note that:

You can schedule reports for after class by using a negative Minutes Before value.

You can schedule reports to run more than once.

NOTE: If you want the report to run silently (ie. without prompting you for a value), you will need to ensure that the

Prompt for Values checkbox on the Report Editor Window is not checked.