Filter reports and screens for active clients only
By default Practice CS includes all clients and staff regardless of status on reports and screens, whether their status is active or inactive. If you would like to limit the output to show only active clients or staff, you'll need to create a custom filter.
You may want to run historical reports on the full financial history in the application or run reports or filter screens to show only active data. For example:
- You may want to run a client-based report and show active clients only, excluding clients you no longer provide services to.
- You may want to run a report and exclude staff members that no longer work for the firm.
- You may want to go to aSetupscreen and filter out inactive clients, activities, or staff.
- Follow the steps in theFiltering your dataarticle to create a custom filter.
- Go to theCriteria Informationsection of the custom filter setup.
- Set the following options:
- Filter by:toStatus
- Method:tois
- Selected: toActive
- Use filter options on reports.
- Go toFile, thenPrint Reports.
- Select a report.
- Select theSelectiontab.
- On the 1st line of the Filtering section, select theClientorStaffdata type.
- In the next column, selectisfrom the filter dropdown list.
- Select the custom filter you created for active staff or clients.
- PrevieworPrintyour report.
Examplenote- Example active client and staff filters:
- Active clients —Client IDis in the filter: This is the name of the custom filter created for active clients.
- Active staff —Staff IDis in the filter: This is the name of the custom filter created for active staff.
- You can use custom filters in any screen or dropdown list where you can filter information byIDorName.
- To filter theTime & Expense Entryscreen to only show currently active projects and exclude the completed projects, you'll need a different method.