Menu Items |About Reports | Types of Report

Web Reports This is a sub-menu item with the following items:

Build Web Site... This allows you to create Web files (HTML) to be uploaded to your Web Server. All checked reports will be built in addition to all brackets. A dialog will be presented asking you to select a folder in which to save these files on your hard drive. (Same as selecting the Build Website... button from the Reports screen)

ReBuild Entire Web Site... Once you have chosen Build Web Site for the first time, this will become active. Now you can select this item and all your files will be re-generated into the folder you selected from the last build.

Save As... Active only when a report is selected. This allows you to save the selected report instead of building all reports, for example. This options also allows you to save the report as Text or Excel format. (Same as selecting the Save As... button from the Reports screen)

Preview... Active only when a report is selected. This allows you to see a Web Preview of the selected report. (Same as selecting the Preview... button from the Reports screen)

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Baselines... Used to populate the Standings report Change field. See OfficePool built-in help when selecting this menu item for more information.

Edit Report... Presents a dialog which enables you to change the following report attributes: Name and Web/Print Title. (This is the same as double-clicking on a report from the Available Reports list)

Fields This is a sub-menu item with the following items:

Edit Field... Presents a dialog which enables you to change the following report field attributes: Name, Column Title, Width and Alignment. (This is the same as double-clicking on a report from the Fields list).

The Width attribute is a relative length attribute. So, for example, if you enter a "5" for Entry Name field and a "1" for Score field then the Entry Name column will be 5 times the width of the Score field.

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Add Custom Report or Link This menu item creates a new custom report similar to the built-in Rules report. These types of reports allow you to create extra web pages. These reports might contain rules for you pool, an introduction or an Index to all the reports. These reports also show up in the navigation menu which is included on all reports.

To add a link to the Popup menu built within the reports

Delete Report Active only for reports you have created using either Duplicate Report or Add Custom Report. This menu item allows you to remove these reports. Simply un-checking them may be a better approach however.

Duplicate Report Active only when the built-in Standings report is selected. This allows you to make a copy of the report and then select other fields to create your own custom report. No single report will contain all the fields available but you may want to create multiple reports with a few selected fields. (Same as selecting the Duplicate button from the Reports screen)

NOTE: The Bracket Index and Possible Outcomes reports are actually duplicated reports of the Standings report. In fact, these two built-in reports can be deleted.

Modify Report Styles.../Modify Bracket Styles... Allows you to change the look and feel of your OfficePool-generated Web files. All reports use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and this tool allows you to modify these styles.

You can also modify the styles using an TEXT or HTML editor and then opening the MasterStyles.css or the BracketStyles.css files within the OfficePool Files folder. This folder is automatically created in the same folder as OfficePool.

Brief Description of How Reports Work

This is the area where you generate output of all the information you gathered from the Brackets area. You may only access this area if you have created at least on bracket.

There are two lists on the Reports area: Available Reports and Fields. When you select a report from Available Reports then the Fields list is populated with the report's available fields.

Reports can be re-ordered by selecting a report and then dragging it to a new position. The order of reports from this list is the same order of how your navigation menu is populated on your Web reports. Checked reports are the only ones created from the Build Web Site menu item. The navigation (i.e. Popup menu) menu on each report is also populated with only checked reports.

Fields can be re-order in the same way as reports -- select a field and drag to new position. Checked fields are the only ones which will appear on the selected report.

Other Items of Note and descriptions of reports:

The Options button brings up the Preferences window and selects the Print Options tab.

The Standings report shows the current Standings based on The Results entry.

The Possible Outcomes report shows the current Possibilities based on The Results entry. Must have at least one entry and have completed the second round of games (i.e. 16 teams or less left) for these fields to show relevant data.

How many possible outcomes does your pool have? Mathematically speaking, you have 2 to the power of n, where n is the number of teams left in the tournament minus one.

So, if there are two teams left, there are 2 raised to the power of 1 which equals 2 possible out comes. Four teams left would be pow(2, 3) = 8 possible outcomes. 16 teams left would be pow(2, 15) = 32,768 possible outcomes. With 32 teams left there would be 2.1 Billion outcomes which is why we wait until there are 16 teams or less.

The Possible Outcomes and Money columns are based on what is entered under the Payout's tab under the Preferences dialog.

The Summary of Picks report displays how many times each tournament team has been selected by your pool brackets for each round. Round 6 is really the Championship game. Round 5 is the Finals, Round 4 is the Final Four, etc.

The What If Scenarios report is only available at the Final Four or Final Two rounds. For each possible outcome, the full standings are displayed. So when there are four teams left, that would make eight possible outcomes. This reports helps eliminate the always annoying questions of "What needs to happen for me to finish first?"

The Compare Brackets report allows you to multiple brackets. Select the Compare Brackets... button and now you have a side-by-side comparison of all 63 picks for the selected brackets.