Technical Note: 20011004022

Analyzer Report Manager

(Maitre'D 2002, and later versions of Maitre'D)

This application is installed on the Server PC at the corporate office. This application is used to generate reports from the database of all restaurants. It is used to analyze information between restaurant units or for the entire restaurant chain.
When you start this application the following screen displays:

File

New

The New option from the File menu allows to access the report template menu of the analyzer application. Every report template is available under the category tabs. These categories are Sales Details, Summary, Cost and Statistics, Inventory, Management and Database. When you select this option, the following menu is display showing you by category every report template available in the Analyzer application

When you select one of the templates, Report Manager will show you available filters to customize this report.

Dates

Dates Range
From the date filter page, select the date range you want to generate the report for.
Select from the drop-down menu the date filter wanted. These choices are:
All dates
Current month
Current week
Current year
Custom dates
Last day
Last month
Last week
Last year
Today

You can from the Period button, specify a specific week or period according to the Database Manager / View / Options setup. When you select this button, the following screen displays allowing to specify which period you want, you can also specify a week number or select All for all weeks of the period.

Touch this button to disable every hour already selected.

Formula

This tab shows every filter applied on this report. This page will be empty if you did not apply any filter.
When you apply all the filters needed, click on OK to generate the report.
Then you can save this report and access it again using the Open option from the File menu.

Open

The Open option from the File menu allows to open custom reports that you already created with the New option from the File menu. When you select this option, the default directory where your reports are stored will prompt you. Select from the reports available, the one you want to open.

When a report is on screen, a toolbar displays at the top of the window.

Following is a brief description of every tool available.

These arrows allow to shift from one page to another in the on-screen report.

This icon allows to print the on-screen report.

This icon allows to export the on-screen report in another file format such as Lotus, Excel, Word or HTML. Also, you can save this report on disk file, Exchange Folder or Microsoft Mail.

This option enlarges or reduces the view of your document as a percentage of its normal size. To return your document to normal size, select 100% from the drop-down menu.

The right side of the toolbar displays the generating status of the current report where:

Total	Show total records used in this report.
000%	Show reading percentage of the database use to get the current report.
9999 of 9999	Show total records included in the report vs all records of the database used.

Following the generation of a report, if you have email functionality on your PC, you can send this report by email to a colleague. To do so, when the report is on screen, select the export icon:

The following windows displays:

Export

Format

Select from the drop-down menu the file format that you want for this export report.

Destination

Select from the drop-down menu, Microsoft Mail (MAPI) and click on OK. The following screen displays:

Enter the information needed.

Close

The close option from the File menu allows to close the current report displays on screen. This option is not available if any report is currently open.

Save

The save option from the File menu allows to save the current report displayed on screen. When you select this option, the system will display the following screen asking to save the current report in the directory set as document directory. Analyzer will show you the default name give to the current report. You can change this name for a more appropriate name for the report that you built. This option is not available if any report is currently open.

You could ask, from the desktop, for a pre-save report without having to start the H-O Analyzer application. This feature could be interesting if you look for an easy way to generate specific report for a H-O Analyzer non-familiar person. To do so, when you save the report, select from the Save in field, the Desktop folder. Windows will display a new icon representing this report on Windows Desktop.

Save As

The Save As option from the File menu allows to save a pre-save report to another file name. This option is not available if any report is currently open.

Recent files section

This section will show you the four last files that have been opened. You can directly open these files using the file name displayed here.
Exit
Enable this option to exit the Corporate Office application.

View

Status Bar

This option allows to choose whether to display or not display the status bar (the line located at the bottom of your screen) or not. This selection toggles from enable and disable. When there is a check mark beside the option, the option is enabled and you will see the status bar.

Options

Data

Enter the path where the information available for the Report Manager application is stored.

Report

Enter the path where the report templates available for the Report Manager application are stored.

Saved Report

Enter the path where the reports that you created from the reports templates for the Report Manager application will be stored.

Language

Select the appropriate language English or Français.