Reports - People
People Reports are where you report information on people / ranches at one time. Typically, people on the report are those in your multiple active peopleset. There are five output options which you can output your report. Not all reports have all output options though. Only non-grayed-out (colored) options are available for a given report.
Click on the colored-letter icon to print a specific report. All reports can be output to paper, but usually it is the HTML and PDF output types that are best suited for paper.
These five Output Options include:
- HTML in browser: Creates a pop-up window in your browser (Firefox, Flock, Internet Explorer, etc.). From this pop-up window you can review the report then close it or physically print it to paper.
- Word (doc): Creates a Microsoft Word Document which you can open directly with Word or save to your hard drive. This file is then editable, but any changes will not be saved in GEM.
- Excel (xls): Creates a Microsoft Excel Document which you can open directly with Excel or save to your hard drive. This file is then editable, but any changes will not be saved in GEM.
- Adobe Acrobat (pdf): Creates an Adobe Acrobat file which you can open directly with Acrobat Reader and save to your hard drive. This file type is usually reserved for more complicated report formats such as sale catalogs or invoices. This file is only editable, but only with Adobe Photoshop or a similar program.
- Comma-separated values (csv): Comma-separated (actually in some cases these are tab-delimited and sometimes space-delimited or fixed format) files are generally used to send specific data to your breed association. You should save this file type directly to your hard drive from this report line. Then you email the file to your association. You can look at these files with Microsoft Notepad or Wordpad, but should never save the file after opening it. Generally, these files are very difficult to understand, since they are designed to be opened by a computer at your association.
Most of GEM's HTML people reports can be sorted by clicking on the column heading to sort ascending and clicking a second time to sort descending. You can also sort by multiple columns by clicking first one column heading then another. For example, you wish to sort your people list by state then city within state. You would first click on the city column, then secondly click on the state column. Thus, you would click the columns in the reverse order you wish to sort.
The overall design or usage of people reports are nearly identical to animal reports.