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Reporting System

Introduction

Reporting system plays a major roll in sahana disaster management system because whatever the users fed to the system,can be seen in a organized manner and it is really important to get an idea about the current situation of the disaster management as well as these reports can be used as attachments for official letters in order to request more aids or any other purpose.Sahana disaster management system produces various reports in several file formats(pdf,html…) also it provides facilities to customize the report generating process as well.

getting started with reports

Click on the Reporting System menu item on the sahana main menu and then the sahana Reporting System menu will appear with the reporting system home page.

Reporting System Main Menu

Home

Conventionally this link directs to the reporting system home page

Report/Chart seaech

Sahana disaster management system does not create reports when you request a particular report.It assembles reports periodically from system data and keep them in order to provide when the user requested (this behavior can be changed but this optimizes the performance of the system if the system consists of huge amount of data).So if the user have no idea about the name of a particular report, it can be searched using this menu item.

First select the report/chart and fill the given text boxes (except key word search) and click on search button.If the user don't know about select detail he/she can do a keyword search but search category should be first selected.If you click on the do exact search, the system will try to match given details exactly with the report details but sometimes it will not provide effective result.

Configuration

Configuration menu item allow user to select reports or charts updating frequency.(as described above section).For instance. if the frequency is set to 30 minutes,after every 30 minutes,the all created report are updated with the newly entered data to the system.


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