Chargeback Summary Report

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The Chargeback Summary report provides a quick summary of your chargebacks. By default, the report has a line for each chargeback, showing the most important information about the chargebacks. Options in the Advanced section let you add more information to the report. (The Chargeback Summary report is actually the same as the Chargeback History report, but with different options selected by default.)

To print a chargeback summary, use Work Orders | Reports | Chargeback Summary. This opens 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 chargebacks will be included in the report. The window lets you select chargebacks in several ways:

Show only active records: If this checkbox is checkmarked, the Active filter will automatically be applied when preparing the report; this means that information from old chargebacks will not be included in the report. If this checkbox is blank, the Active filter is ignored; MainBoss uses information from all chargebacks, no matter how old.

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

Chargeback Filters: Make selections based on properties of the chargebacks. For example, if you filter by Billable Requestor Name, you can restrict the print-out to chargebacks to a particular set of requestors.

Work Order Filters: Make selections based on properties of the work order. For example, if you filter by Project, you can restrict the print-out to work orders from a particular set of projects.

Unit Filters: Make selections based on the unit involved in the work order. 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).

Unit Value Filters: Make selections based on properties of the unit involved in the work order. For example, if you filter by Purchase Vendor, you can restrict the print-out to work orders on units purchased from a particular vendor.

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.

For more on chargebacks, see Chargebacks. For more on reports in general, see Reports.

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