Report Wizard

Introduction

The Report Wizard can export your music collection to plain text, html, csv or any other format. The templates used to create reports can be modified in any text editor to customize the layout of the report.

Using the Report Wizard

The Report Wizard can be run in two different ways:

• With tracks to create a report for selected
• Without any track selected. You will be able to create database searches to define which tracks to include in the report. You will also be able to create a report of your entire database.

 

Starting the Report Wizard with tracks selected

From any View in Helium Music Manager except the Music Information Browser, browse for the tracks you want to create a report for, select them and start the Report Wizard using any of the methods below:

• Click the Tools | Create Report in the main menu.
• Click the button on the main toolbar and select Create Report.
• Right click the selected tracks and select the Tools | Create Report option.

Starting the Report Wizard without tracks selected

When starting the Report Wizard without any tracks selected it will try to select all tracks in the track list if there are no tracks to select it will start with the query editor and you can search for the tracks to include in your report. Start the Report Wizard using any of the following ways.

• Click the Tools | Create Report in the main menu.
• Click the button on the main toolbar and select Create Report.
• Right click the selected tracks and select the Tools | Create Report option.

If you want to use the query editor and you already started with some files selected, you can click the Back-button, choose the Database option and click Next-button.
 

Previewing/changing options

Choose one of the following report types:

• HTML, will list all html templates.
• Text, will list all text templates.
• Other, will list all other templates.

Choose the template you want to use for your report, use the Preview button to view a preview of the report. You can also click the Edit Template button to open the template file in Notepad.
 
Use the Browse and Save buttons to choose where to save your report on disk.
 
Note:

• Read about how to create your own templates here.