The Report Builder is available to ABC members and registered users who have paid to use it.
The Report Builder is made up of three stages which will allow you to define and display ABC data the way you want it. The three stages are:
- Product selection - select a range of products
- Data selection - select the range of data for your products
- Report Results - choose how you wish to see the results presented
You are able to create a range of products that you wish to appear in your reports. Products may be selected from one or more of 5 filter options. Please note to enable multi platform reporting, these options are not connected. So if you select "Product Type A" and "Market Sector D" you will get results for Products that appear in either option not products that only appear in both options. The filter options are:
- Product Type - this refers to the nature of the product - e.g. is it a magazine, newspaper, website etc.
- Product - also sometimes called 'title', 'website' and various other names, this refers to the name of the entity that ABC certifies. The selection option here has the alphabet listed above the selection boxes. ABC certifies, at any one time, in the region of 4,000 products. This would make for an unmanageable list, so we have broken it down for you. Select the first letter of the product you want, to be presented in the selection box with all products starting with that letter. You can now select individual products.
- Market Sector - these do not tend to be used by newspapers but are widely used by magazines, exhibitions and websites.
- Geography - this is primarily used by regional publications. Here you are able to filter by one or more counties in England, or countries of the world.
- Media Owner - Each product registered with ABC, is registered by a company, its 'owner'. This selection allows you to pick one or more of these companies, which will result in all titles registered by that company appearing in your report.
To make a selection, click on the option in the left hand box and use an arrow control to move it to the right hand box. Selections in the right hand boxes will form the 'basket' of products that will form your report. These are the functions of the arrows:
> Move a highlighted selection in the left hand box to the right hand box
< Move a highlighted selection in the right hand box to the left hand box
>> Move the entire contents of the left hand box to the right hand box
<< Move the entire contents of the right hand box to the left hand box
At the base of the page, you have the facility to save the criteria you have selected. This allows you to easily update it in the future. To do this, enter a name in the 'Save Report Name' box and select save. Reports saved in this fashion are stored in a web page for you in your 'My ABC' area. The page is in the menu under 'My Saved Report Criteria'.
Please note the following:
- The save feature saves report criteria not actual data. You may therefore get different results when you run a report at a later date. Retaining the criteria and not the data ensures your report always contains the most up-to-date figures for that given period.
- Most ABC data is certified subject to Audit/Inspection. If the results of an Audit/Inspection require data to be changed, it will be re-issued as an Audit/Inspection Report.
- Products may register for ABC certification at any time. Once registered they may opt to produce data for a period that has already passed. This may mean that there are now more products available for your report than when you first ran it.