Statistics Include Tab¶

Use the Statistics Report's Include page to choose the report's format (PDF or Excel) and which time period and volunteers you want to include in it.

Select Format¶

Use the setting under What format do you want for this report? to choose between creating a PDF file, or a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet file.

Select Time Period¶

Your volunteer service and Status information is associated with dates. This section of the Include page allows you to select the time period you'd like your report to include.

Include statistics for the most recently ended month¶

This option will include information for the most recent complete calendar month. For example, if you run this report any time in May, this option will always include details for April. Beginning June 1^st, the report will include information for May.

This dynamic option is usually best when creating automatic reports, because you won't need to manually edit the report and update the months included on it.

Include statustics for this period¶

Include information on the report for one or more months. These selections will always include all of the information available for every calendar month in the range you choose. There is no range limit, however reports in Excel format are limited to 96 columns.

Which volunteers do you want to include in this report?¶

Your volunteer records can be identified based on certain fields that appear on the records. The settings in this section can be used to limit which volunteers are used to produce the report's contents.

Tagged volunteers¶

This checkbox is disabled unless you previously tagged one or more volunteer records. Check this checkbox if you want the report to include the tagged volunteers.

These volunteers¶

Check this checkbox if you want the report to include all of the volunteers you specify using the fields listed below. If you want this report to include all volunteers be sure to check this checkbox.

Uncheck this checkbox only if you selected the Tagged volunteers checkbox, and you want this report to include only the tagged volunteers.

Status¶

Choose Any if you want this report to include volunteers regardless of their current Status.

Choose Any of these if you want this report to include only volunteers whose current Status is one of those you check, then check the Statuses you want to include.

Type¶

The Type field appears in the Name box on the Core tab of volunteer records. It can be used to classify volunteers by major programs or categories such as Adult, Junior, Student, Regular, Occasional, Auxiliary, and so forth. Ultimately, each organization decides what the Type field in their account contains.

Choose Any if you want this report to include volunteers regardless of what their Type is currently.

Choose Any of these if you want this report to include only volunteers whose Type is one of those you check, then check the Types you want to include.

Remember that you may have volunteers who do not have any Type selected on their record. So even if you select every Type the report still may not include all of your volunteers.

Kind¶

The Kind field is located on the Core tab in each volunteer record. It is used to show if a volunteer record is for an individual person or a group that volunteers.

Select Both individuals and groups if you want the report to include both individuals and groups.

Select Individuals only if you want the report to only include individual volunteer records.

Select Groups only if you want the report to only include group volunteer records.

Flag¶

Flags appear in the Flag box on the Core tab of volunteer records. Flags are typically used to classify volunteers into groups that may overlap such as Board of Directors, Donor, Sponsor, Day of Caring, Red Team, and so forth.

Choose Any if you want this report to include volunteers regardless of what Flags appear on their Core tab.

Choose Any of these if you want this report to include only volunteers who have at least one of the Flags you check, then check the Flags you want to include.

Choose All of these if you want the report to include only volunteers who have all of the Flags you select.

Keep in mind that this setting may be too restrictive if you check more than just a few Flags. For example, if you check five Flags and it is rare for a volunteer to have all five Flags at once, your report may be blank.

Choose Not any of these if there is volunteer service you do not want to include on the report. For example, you may track both paid staff and volunteers in your account and you use an Employee Flag to show which records are for staff members. If you want your report to include just hours from volunteers, you can select Not any of these and then check the Employee Flag so hours served by your staff are not included in the report.

Site¶

This option only appears if you use Site Level Access in Volgistics, and you are a headquarters operator who has access to the volunteer records for all of the Sites in your account.

Choose Any if you want this report to include volunteers regardless of which Sites they serve at.

Choose Any of these if you want this report to include only volunteers who serve at at least one of the Sites you check, then check Sites you want to include.

Set¶

You can use the Sets feature in Volgistics to query the database to find volunteers who meet certain requirements that are not options on the Include tab. For example, you may want your report to include just the service hours of volunteers who have been at your organization less than a year. In this case, you'd create a Set to locate the volunteers based on their start date first. Then, to limit the report, check the box by This set and pick the name of the Set you created from the dropdown list.

If your report is blank, it is most likely due to one of two things. It may be the other Include tab selections are too restrictive as described in the Keep in Mind call out box above. Or, it may be that the Set itself is not set up correctly to identify the volunteers you want included in the report. One way to check if this is the case is to view the volunteers in the Set.

Complete Report¶

When you're finished choosing the Include options for your report click the Next button to continue to the next step if you're creating or modifying a custom report. If you're running a custom report that you already made, or using a stock report, click the Run Now button when you're ready to have the system create the report file. This file will be sent to the In Box of your Volgistics Mailbox when it is complete.

Related Help¶

• Create Custom Reports
• Add Set Names to Report Titles
• Add Site Names to Report Titles