Two Ways to Use Report Groups
One way to use report groups is to create a
mixed bag of memorized reports.
Perhaps you are running a league and wish to periodically
generate a diverse collection of reports with a single command.
Your group might include league leaders reports; team
batting, pitching and fielding reports; game results reports;
transactions and injury logs; and a few others.
Each of these memorized reports contains the
options to be used for the report, and among those options is the
scope of the report. By scope, we mean the data to be
displayed on the report. For example, is a leader board
report to include all players in the database, all players in an
organization, or all players in a single league? The scope of
each memorized report can be quite different, and that's fine.
DMB will generate each report using whatever scope you
specified.
You can also create groups of
similar reports for web site generation.
By similar, we mean that they have the same scope. For
example, you might wish to create a group of league-oriented
reports (such as standings, leader boards, and registers) and
another group of team-oriented reports (such as team batting and
pitching reports, rosters, injury and transaction logs for a single
team).
You gain a certain measure of flexibility when you
create groups that are comprised of memorized reports with similar
scope. At the time you generate the group, you can tell DMB
which league or organization or team you wish to use, and DMB will
use that scope information for each report in the group. This
way, you can create a group and use it in many ways.
In summary, there are times when you want to create
a group of mixed reports, where the scope information can vary from
one report to the other, and where the main advantage is in your
ability to generate a variety of reports with a single command.
And there are times when you want to create a group of
similar reports, where the main advantage is to be able to choose
different scope information each time you generate the group.
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