Activities, Customers
This report lists Activities of all Task Types, sorted by Customer. Included in the report are the number of Activities and total time for each Customer and for all Customers.
When printed to screen, the Activities, Customers report has FirstOffice's Drill-down feature. Click on a Person's initials to produce an Activities, Persons report for that Person, or on an Activity Number to open the Activity record.
- Period
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Reporting Periods setting, System module
- Enter a reporting period: Activities whose Start Dates fall in this period will be shown in the report. To produce a report for a particular day, simply enter the date once. FirstOffice will then convert it to period format by inserting a colon and repeating the date.
- Customers
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Customers and Suppliers in Customer register
- Range Reporting Alpha
- Enter a Customer Number or a range of Numbers to list Activities recorded or scheduled for that Customer (or for the range of Customers).
- Person
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Person register, System module
- Enter a Person's initials to list the Activities recorded, scheduled or carried out by this Person.
- Classification
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Customer Classifications setting, Sales Support module
- Enter a Classification Code to list Activities featuring Customers with a particular Classification. If you enter a number of Classifications separated by commas, Activities will only be listed for those Customers featuring all the Classifications that you have entered. If you enter a number of Classifications separated by plus signs (+), Activities will be listed for all Customers featuring at least one of the Classifications listed. If you enter a Classification preceded by an exclamation mark (!), Activities will be listed for all Customers featuring any Classification except the one listed.
- For example:
- 1,2
- Lists Activities for Customers with Classifications 1 and 2 (including those for Customers with Classifications 1, 2 and 3).
- 1+2
- Lists Activities for Customers with Classifications 1 or 2.
- !2
- Lists Activities for all Customers except those with Classification 2.
- 1,!2
- Lists Activities for Customers with Classification 1 but not those for Customers with Classification 2 (i.e. those for Customers with Classifications 1 and 2 are not shown). Note the comma before the exclamation mark in this example.
- !1,!2
- Lists Activities for all Customers except those with Classification 1 or 2 or both. Again, note the comma.
- Activity Type
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Activity Types setting, Sales Support module
- Enter an Activity Type to list Activities of that Type.
- Customer Cat.
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Customer Categories setting, Sales Ledger
- Enter a Category Code to list Activities featuring Customers in a particular Category.
- Function
- Use these options to control the level of detail featured in the report. In both cases, the report is sorted by Customer.
- Overview
- This report contains a single row per Activity, showing Date, Activity Type, Person, Contact and Text (from the Activity header).
- Detailed
- In addition to the information shown in the Overview, this option shows all details entered in the grid area on the 'Text' card of the Activity screen.
- Specify
- Use these options to determine whether the report is to contain only Done Activities, not Done Activities or both.
- Show Activities without Type only
- Activities that do not have an Activity Type will be included in the report. If you want to list these Activities only, use this option.
