Trend Analysis

The Trend Analysis report will analyze a selection of Logs and show the number of occurrences per month for the selected items in a pop-up field. 

To create a Trend Analysis Report

You may pre-select the Logs or Referrals you wish to report on or you may use the search facilities in the Trend Analysis Report. If the report is run against a selection of Referrals, the corresponding Logs for the Referrals are used in the report.

  1. Choose Trend Analysis from the Report menu.
    CLIFF presents the Trend Analysis Report window.


     If you had pre-selected Logs or Referrals, the option Create Report for will show “Current Selection of ...”. If a current selection of records did not exist, CLIFF will simply put in the default of “Logs”.
    You may change any of the following search parameters to fine tune your search. All options except Current Selection requires further selection criteria to be specified.

    • Create Report for: choose between Logs, Referrals Sent, and Referrals Received.
    • Date Range: choose one of the pre-defined periods or enter your own;
    • Log Type: type of Logs to search for;
    • Action: Log or Referral action as appropriate. If report is on Logs then the Log Action will be tested, if reporting on referrals the Referral Action will be tested.
  2. Select the Groups or Offices you wish to report on.
    Before you can select individual Groups or Offices, you must first click the radio button at the top of the list. Individual Groups or Offices are selected by clicking on the name.
  3. From the pop-up, select the field to report on.
    The table values for the selected pop-up field are shown in the scrolling list.
  4. Select the table values to report on by clicking on the name.
    Note that the first six table entries are automatically selected.
  5. Click Continue to run the report.
    At the top of the print preview window you will have the following options available to you:


    • Print - will invoke your web browser's printer interface. The window and options displayed will depend on your default printer specification. From the printer window you should be able to select the Page Setup which will allow you to choose between Landscape or Portrait layouts. The browser will automatically format the data to suit the selected layout. The browser option for page header and footer may not be available from the displayed printer interface. You may defined these from the browser's Page Setup menu.
    • Close Window - close the Report window.