Printing graphs/reports

While our online survey reports print out best in colour, we recognise that not all organisations provide easy access to a colour printer. If you add multiple demographics or benchmark data to your graphs, the differences between the colours used in the bars can be hard to distinguish when printed in black and white. We can propose two solutions:

1. Add labels to graphs - when viewing your reports, go to "Preferences" at the top of the launchpad menu on the left hand side of the page. If you check the box for "Add labels to graphs," each bar on your graph will be labelled with the name of the datasource and the score.
2. Change the "View" of the report to Table format - above each graph in our online reports, there is a dropdown box that defaults to "Graph" - this can be changed to "Table". Once this step is done, you can also change the layout of the table as desired. The Table can then be printed out, or copied and pasted into a document or spreadsheet. If you are dealing with a large number of demographics, the Table fromat is the best way to go.

*** Edited 5/21/2007 4:31:44 AM UTC by Leighton (JRA)***

While we are working on dedicated "Export" functionality to allow you to download your Consolidated Report (and other graphs/tables) in formats like Word .doc, Excel Spreadsheets .xls, and .pdf files, we have found another way to improve the quality of your printed Consolidated Report. By logging in to survey-online.com to view your reports in Mozilla's Firefox browser (instead of Internet Explorer), when you print out your Consolidated Report the tables in it will not break over pages. This results in a tidier-looking printed report.

Firefox is the world's second most widely-used internet browser software, and can be downloaded from www.firefox.com. Depending on your System/Network Administrator's security settings, you may or may not be able to download and install this software - but if you can, great!

JRA provides this information as a courtesy, and is not affiliated with this software in any way.

*** Edited 6/5/2007 10:39:30 PM UTC by Leighton (JRA)***

By default, internet browsers like Internet Explorer and Firefox add information like the web page address, page count, page title etc to each page you print out. This can make your printed Consolidated Report look ugly. Follow the steps below to remove this information from your printed pages (Note: these changes apply to your printouts from all web pages. You can reinstate the codes later if you wish - these are listed below):

Internet Explorer

• Open Internet Explorer
• Go to the File menu, select 'Page Setup...'
• Simply delete the codes in the 'Header' and 'Footer' boxes.
• Click 'OK'
• If you want to reinstate the default codes later, the codes are: Header: &p of &P Footer: &b&d

Firefox

• Open Firefox
• Go to the File menu, select 'Page Setup...'
• Click on the 'Margins & Header/Footer' tab
• Change all of the dropdown boxes under 'Headers & Footers' to '--blank--'
• If you want to reinstate the default options later, they are:
  Title -- Blank -- URL
  Page # of # -- Blank -- Date/Time

While our high-quality graphs look great when printed out, the Consolidated Report can be a little slow to print out for some people as high quality images = larger download. If you don't need to have your Consolidated Report printed out in high quality, you can choose to print it our more quickly in draft quality. Simply go to "Preferences" at the top of the launchpad menu on the left hand side of the page and check the box for "Print Consolidated Report in Draft Quality."