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Figure 1 - The Reporting menu
The commands are as follows:
- Rapid Results - opens the Rapid Results functionality (go to About Rapid Results for more information).
- Calculate Variables - the values in recoded variables are not updated automatically as response data is added to the Survey; you must calculate and update the values "manually" but clicking this option (go to Recalculating the Variables for more information).
- Instant Analytics Reports - opens the Instant Analytics report for the survey (if one has been created) (go to About Instant Analytics for more information).
- Reportal Reports - opens a page listing all the Reportal reports that are associated with the current survey (go to Reportal Reports Overview for more information). Click on a blue Report Name link to start Reportal and open the report. Note that the report will open in the mode applicable to the permission you have for that report. You can create new reports using the Report Wizard functionality if a wizard is available to you (go to The Report Wizard for more information).
- Go to Reportal - opens Forsta Reportal in a new window. Refer to the Reportal User Guide for further information.
- Weighting - opens the Weight Model list (go to Creating and Managing Weight Models for more information).
- Create Reportal BitStream Files - BitStream Files are a way of storing survey data in compact files. These files are optimized for fast access, to allow aggregated tables to be generated as quickly as possible for your Reportal Report. Go to this menu command to create the BitStream Files for your survey (go to BitStream Files for more information).
- BitStream Indexes - index the BitStream Files for improved performance (go to BitStream Indexes for more information).
- Benchmark Projects - the Benchmark functionality in Reportal gives you the ability to combine the aggregated results from the survey with other results or numbers in the same tables, and consequently also build charts where the survey results calculated in Reportal are compared with these uploaded numbers. A Benchmark survey must be set up in Authoring. Go to this menu command to set up the survey. For further information, refer to the Forsta Reportal documentation.
- Create Reporting Data - if you are reporting on one survey, you can use Reporting Data instead of BitStream files. This uses the same database and analytics engine as SmartHub, but without having to configure a hub just for one source. Select this menu option to have the data set up automatically in a simple hub ready for reporting (go to Creating and Using Reporting Data for more information).