Generate reports for transactions and trade orders
You can generate reports for selected transactions or trade orders. For example, if you need to report transactions that result from trade order execution, or all today's transactions or trade orders. Depending on how often you need to produce the report, you can use one of the options:
Generate reports based on an ad-hoc search. This option is convenient if you need to produce the report only once.
Generate reports based on the saved search. This option is convenient if you need to generate reports more than once – for example, if you need to report all today's buy transactions every day. You can also schedule report generation.
You can automatically create reports for the recent transactions or trade orders that have not been reported: Mark transactions and trade orders as reported with tags.
Generate reports based on an ad-hoc search
To generate reports for transactions or trade orders based on a search:
Define the report scope:
Search for transactions in the Overview (lower section) or in the Transactions view.
Search for trade orders in the Trade orders view.
Click the printer icon in the top-right corner of the view and choose the report options in the Report window that opens (see Report window in FA Back reference for details).
Click Generate report.
Generate reports based on the saved search
To generate reports for transactions or trade orders based on the saved search:
Open Transactions or Trade orders view, define the search criteria, and save the search (see Saving search views in FA Back reference for details).
Click the printer icon in the top-right corner of the view. In the Report window that opens, select the report and report options. In the Saved search field, choose the search you created in the previous step.
To schedule the report generation, click Add schedule and follow the steps in Schedule reports.
Mark transactions and trade orders as reported with tags
You can automatically maintain an up-to-date list of transactions or trade orders that need to be reported and those that have already been reported. For example, this is convenient if you send out transaction or trade order confirmations to your clients. To set up this feature, you need to create tags, for example, "Confirmation sent" and "Confirmation pending". Then, set up the system to generate reports for the pending transactions or trade orders and replace the tag after reports are ready.
Create tags for transactions and trade orders in Preference view. For example, you can create a tag called "Confirmation pending" for transactions and trade orders that are awaiting report generation and a tag called "Confirmation sent" for transactions and trade orders that have already been reported. For detailed instructions on creating tags, see Preference - Tags.
Create two saved searches in the Transactions or Trade orders view for the transactions or trade orders and use the tags you just created as a search filter. All new transactions or trade orders with the specified tag are added to this view. To learn how to save search views, see Saving search views.
Click the printer icon in the top-right corner of the view for pending transaction or trade orders to create a new report.
Select the search view you saved in the Saved search field and add the tag to be automatically applied after the report is generated in the Transaction tags or Trade order tags field. For example, you can enter the "Confirmation sent" tag here.
After you complete these steps, generating the report automatically applies the new tag to transactions or trade orders for which reports have been sent out.