Use the Options tab of an individual summary report to save sets of options for reuse. Summary report options control both the content and the formatting of a report. For example, the Options tab for the Project Summary report contains options that you use to summarize data, report at billing rates, and display overhead amounts, direct expenses, and unposted time.
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Reporting Amounts
This section is only available if you have multicurrency enabled. Reporting amounts provide currency and exchange rate information about an employee's project.
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| Report In
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This drop-down list displays information about currency and exchange rate information related to an employee's project. Options for Project's Functional Currency (in some accounting reports only) and Presentation Currency.
Select one of the following currency options to use for amounts that appear on the report:
- Billing Currency (in projects only),
- Project Currency (in project reports only): The currency specified in
Custom Currency on the Overview tab of the Projects hub.
- Project's Functional Currency: this option appears in some accounting reports
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Presentation Currency: The currency that you select for the
Presentation Currency option. When you select this option, you can then select both currency and date options.
If you selected
Presentation Currency in
Report In, select the three-character ISO code for the currency. The list includes only the currencies that are enabled for your enterprise. All amounts on the report are presented in this currency.
Vantagepoint calculates the exchanges between the project currency and the presentation currency based on the date that you specify in
Exchange Rate as of.
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| Presentation Currency
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If you selected
Presentation Currency in
Report In, select the three-character ISO code for the currency. The list includes only the currencies that are enabled for your enterprise. All amounts on the report are presented in this currency.
Vantagepoint calculates the exchanges between the project currency and the presentation currency based on the date that you specify in
Exchange Rate as of.
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| Exchange Rate as of
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If you selected
Presentation Currency in
Report In, specify the date that
Vantagepoint should use to calculate exchanges between the presentation currency that you select and the project currency.
Vantagepoint determines the correct exchange rates in the daily exchange rate table based on this date.
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Standard Sections
Use these options to display various types of information on the summary report. By default,
Vantagepoint includes one or more of the following sections depending on the type of summary report:
- General Information
- Description
- Links
- Responses
- Employees
- Education
- Credentials
- Skills
- Resumes
- Activities
- Vendor Information
- Projects
- ProjectCodes
- Competition
- Dates and Costs
- Awards
- Firms
- Addresses
- Contacts
- Associations
- Teams
- Categories
- Citizenship
- Marketing Campaigns
- Milestones
Use the toggle to the left of each standard section, to either show (
) or hide (
) the information that you want for the report.
User Defined Sections
Use the user defined section to customize your summary reports. You can create and structure information as you would like presented on the report. The grid shows all the user defined sections and fields that are shown on the report.
| Field | Description |
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| Sections
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This column lists the user defined sections available for inclusion on your report.
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| Fields
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This column lists the user defined section fields that are currently selected for inclusion on your report.
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| + New Section
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Click this link to display the Create Section dialog box to add and configure a new user defined section to the grid.
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Other
Use this section of the Options tab to add an indent and a page break between the sections of a report.
| Field | Description |
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| Indent First Column
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Use this control to indent the first column of the report. To change it, use the up and down arrows to incrementally increase or decrease the indent. .
You apply the unit of measure (inches or millimeters) for all measurement fields via the Layout Tab. If your unit of measure is inches, use decimals for fractions of an inch (for example, 0.75 or 1.20)
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| Page Break Between Sections
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To begin each section on a new page, slide the toggle to the right from the
(Off position) to the
(On position).
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