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The reporting section allows users to export data from Open Collection into a downloadable Excel documentthe CMS into .xls or html format. The two tabs in this section denote the two steps to running a report. The "Set Up" tab (right) is where users select the fields they would like to include in the report (this selection of fields is called a "report format"). The "Reports" tab is where users define the search terms that will determine which objects are included in the report. Thus, a user can use the same report format to run several different reports, each on a different group of records defined by different search terms.
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