Generating Reports

DMB allows you to generate a wide variety of standard, custom, and memorized reports to be displayed on the screen, printed, or saved to a text file in plain-text or HTML format.

Selecting the Report

Begin by choosing Report on the DMB menu bar, and then choose Standard, customized, memorized. DMB displays a window that allows you to select the type of report and the specific report within that type:

As you can see, there are a variety of standard, custom, and memorized report types available. The Include in report list box allows you to choose which category of reports (Standard, Custom, and/or Memorized) are displayed in the Report name box.

The report names, displayed on the right will vary depending on which report type you select. For example, the Batting Register report type provides four reports by default; the standard DMB and Real-life batting registers and two memorized batting registers (League and Organization) that are included to allow you to easily generate report groups and web sites. The Game log report allows you to select game-by-game batting or game-by game pitching.

Click on the report type you want to generate, then select the report name you are interested in.

The Output box allows you to choose the destination for this report. When you choose Display, the report is displayed in a window on the screen. You can interact with the report, changing options and browsing through different teams and leagues, and still choose to print it or save it to a file. If you don't want to see the report on the screen before you print it or save it to a file, choose one of the other options.

Click Generate to produce the report. DMB displays an options window. For most reports, this window has three tabs:

• the Options page is used to select the scope of the report and choose options that govern the content of the report. Different reports have different options, so this page won't look the same for all reports.

• the Time period page is used to choose a time interval for any DMB statistics that are contained in the report. You can choose to display year-to-date statistics or statistics for a time interval. And you can choose whether to use regular-season statistics or statistics from a round of the post-season.

• the Sections page is used to choose which of the report's sections will be printed or saved to a file. Use these options to conserve paper and keep file sizes small by suppressing any sections that you don't want to include in the output.

Choosing report options

The options vary from report to report, but there are some common elements. Most reports have some options related to scope -- which leagues, teams or players should be included. Just about all of them let you choose which column is to be the basis for sorting the report when it first displays or when it is printed or saved to a file. The other options are quite specific to the type of report being generated.

Choosing a time period

DMB's database tracks statistics for the pre-season, regular season, and different rounds of the post-season. The Use statistics for pulldown list is used to select which stage of the season you wish to use for this report.

When you have chosen the season stage, you can choose a date interval. The default is To date, which includes everything for that season stage. But you can also click on the Interval type button to choose one of the standard time intervals or choose a Custom range of dates.

Choosing sections

Most DMB reports include too much information to fit on one screen or one printed page. The columns in these reports are divided up into page-sized sections. The third tab lets you choose which of these sections are to be included when the reports is printed or saved to a file. All sections are always included when you display reports on the screen.

What happens next

When you are happy with your options, time period, and section selections, click OK to generate the report. The next steps depend on the Output option you selected, and these are described in the following topics:

Displaying Reports on the Screen

Printing Reports

Saving Reports to a File