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21  Reporting

Note: T.O.V.A. results should be interpreted only by qualified professionals.

Viewing a report is easy. In the main window, highlight the session you want to report on and choose ‘View’.

Note: If you want to view a comparison report, highlight more than one session using Shift-click or Ctrl-click. The ‘View’ button becomes a ‘Compare’ button, and when you choose it, you will see a graph comparing the highlighted sessions. For more information on the comparison report, see section 21.2.

The T.O.V.A. Report

While you’re viewing a report, you have other options:

Save
- Exports a .pdf file of the report
Print
- Send the report to your printer
Back/Next
- Proceed through the pages of the report
Smaller/Larger
- Zoom out/in on the report pages
Fit to width
- Zooms the report page to the width of the window
Fit page
- Zooms to view the entire page of the report in the window without scrolling
Customize
- Choose which pages of the report to display, among other customizations. See Customizing the Report, section 21.1 below.
Help
- Loads this Help section
Close report
- Closes the report window.

On the left of the report window is a list of the pages of the report. Highlight a page to view it in the right pane.

21.1  Customizing the Report

Select pages and fields to include

Choose ‘Customize’ from the Report window, and you’ll find several ways to customize the T.O.V.A. report:

Once you’ve made your changes, choose ‘Apply’, or choose ‘Set as default’ to apply your changes to this and all future reports. Close the window to abandon your selections.

21.2  Comparison Graphs

When you select more than one session in the main window, the ‘View’ button becomes a ‘Compare’ button. Click it to bring up a report with graphs comparing statistics of the selected sessions.

You can highlight multiple sessions using ‘Ctrl’-click (Mac users, ‘Command’-click) to highlight each additional session, or ‘Shift’-click to highlight a range of sessions.

The Comparison Report

There are three pages:

Standard Comparison Graphs
- Similar to those in the T.O.V.A. 7, this displays four graphs, each comparing the results for one statistic each session and quarter.
Small Comparison Graphs
- This contains many smaller graphs, one for each session and statistic, so that you can compare graphs rather than values.
ACS Comparison Graphs
- This page displays the ACS score bars of the selected sessions, so you can easily compare the scores.

21.3  Printing problems

We try to support all printers, but if you encounter problems printing the T.O.V.A. report, there is a workaround:

21.3.1  Windows

  1. In the Report window, click ‘Save’ and save the .pdf file to a known location (such as your desktop).
  2. Open that location and right-click the .pdf file.
  3. Choose ‘Print’. Alternatively, you may choose to open the file in your system’s PDF viewer and customize the printing options there.

21.3.2  Mac

  1. In the Report window, click ‘Save’ and save the .pdf file to a known location (such as your desktop).
  2. Open that location and double-click the .pdf file. That should Preview the saved report.
  3. In Preview, print the report.

We hope that this works for you. However, please do send us a Tech Support request (section 29) to let us know about the problem, so we can correct this for you and other users.

After that, you can automate this workaround:

  1. Run the T.O.V.A. and choose ‘Preferences’, ‘Reports’.
  2. Check ‘Use PDF reader for printing’ and click ‘Save’.

From then on, printing a report will save a temporary file, open your default PDF viewer, and print the report using your default printer/settings.


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