SCOPE Reports

Reporting Options

Click to view Example SCOPE Reports

• Enables hard copy print and online previews of all reports, plus it will export all Reports to MS WORD®, MS EXCEL®  or HTML. In preview mode you can send the report via emial or save as a viewable file or send as a PDF file
• All (>40) different reports can be previewed online prior to printing .
• All data entered can be reported. All linked information can be reported via Linked List Reports
• Reports can be filtered on any tree, any branch , as displayed or just ‘flagged’ functions and report all links. Eg. Could select to Report Processes and data that are linked to a particular note and report the total size.
• SCOPE Reports all impacted functionality for a Baseline Count or a new Release of software, including the size of the Net delivered functionality, Reworked functionality. For each individual Change Request in the Release it reports all the project’s, added, changed and deleted functionality.
• Reporting is very customisable and can be filtered to the client’s specific request.
• SCOPE has the ability for client to specify Report Title information for tailored reports.
• Data in database can be queried using MsACCESS®

Preview, Print or Email SCOPE Reports

Use Report Selection Menu Option (or Ctrl P) to list the available reports for printing or preview (>40 online reports) . Press + to expand the report group to select one or more individual reports for sending to the printer or viewing all content online. Reports displayed online can be saved as a PDF file using Acrobat Distiller (select to Print) or sent as an email attachment via MS Outlook®. Clicking on the top branch will select all reports (select to Send). Reports can also be displayed in MS EXCEL® or MS WORD®.

Embedding SCOPE Reports into a Client Report

If you want to have SCOPE reports embedded into another document then this can be done by either creating the SCOPE report in WORD® or EXCEL and then inserting into a WORD® document or alternatively creating the WORD® report and saving it as a PDF file and then merging SCOPE reports into the PDF file.

Merging Annotating and Searching SCOPE Reports

If you have MS Office® 2003 or later you can select to Preview the Report and from Snapshot Viewer select to Print the Report to the printer called MS Office® Image Writer. MS Office® Image Writer will open and then allow you to :

• annotate the Report

• insert text boxes

• merge this report with other SCOPE reports or other documents

• search for specific text (select Tools, Recognise Text for OCR)

Convert SCOPE Reports to Text

1. Save the report to MS Office® Image Writer as described above and select Tools, Send Text to WORD

2. Once the text is saved, numeric data in tables can be exported to MS Office® EXCEL.

Export Reports

SCOPE enables you to send and save any of the tabular or text reports to:

• Microsoft EXCEL®

• Microsoft WORD®

• HTML

Making it easy to embed SCOPE reports into your management reports or manipulate the data in an EXCEL® spreadsheet

Merging a SCOPE PDF file into another PDF File

1. Select to preview your report in SCOPE or if the SnapShot Viewer File has been saved, double click to open the it (*.snp).
2. From “File” in the main menu, select Print and select the printer as Adobe (Note: you need to have the Adobe Distiller software previously loaded).
3. Check Adobe PDF settings and ensure that ‘Do not send fonts to Adobe PDF’ is unselected
4. Select Print and select the directory for the location of the saved PDF file
5. Open Adobe and from main menu and select “Create PDF”
6. Select from the option for “Multiple files”
7. Select to “Add” files using the “browse” option - select one file at a time if a particular order is required in the finished PDF file.
8. Select “OK” to create the aggregated PDF file.
9. The SCOPE Count Reports have now been appended to the client report as a PDF file
10. Client report is now ready to be created as a PDF file.