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Documenting Author Information in Reports - The 'About' Band

We have repurposed the 'Details' band in standard reports to create a new space where users can document high level information such as who authored a report and when the report was last modified. 

This new 'About' Band will be included in all Standard Reports starting in August 2025, and will assist in providing effective support to report developers and users.

IMPORTANT: Report developers are expected to keep these documentation elements up to date.

The 'About' Band

Every Standard Report will have an 'About' band at the top of the report below the PageHeader band. This band will be expanded and hidden using the property Visibility = False. Inside the About band, there will be a hidden table (also Visibility = False) that contains the following information:

  • Author: Name, Company responsible for changes
  • Designer Modified Date: Date that the Designer tab was last modified
  • Scripts Modified Date: Date that the Scripts tab was last modified
  • Fee Calculations Modified Date (Beck Tech): Date that Beck Technology last modified the fee calculations portion of the scripts
  • Product Compatibility: DESTINI product name and minimum compatible version

While Beck Tech will maintain the Fee Calculations date, Report developers are expected to maintain Author, Designer Modified Date, Scripts Modified Date, and Product Compatibility information. 

Note: When filtering line items by WBS Properties, the Standard Reports recalculate fee values for the Base Estimate. To ensure that DESTINI Estimator and Standard Reports use the same logic, Beck Technology is responsible for maintaining the fee calculations section of the Scrips tab.

Report Tag

For product usage purposes, all our reports have a Tag assigned at the main Report level. To view the report’s Tag:

  1. Select the main report.
  2. Navigate to the Properties section on the right side of the screen.
  3. Select the Data tab
  4. Find the property called 'Tag'

The Tag is formatted in such a way that it is comprised of the following elements (in order):

  • Author’s Company (i.e. BeckTech)
  • Report Type (i.e. Owners-Alternates, Alternates-Summary, Accounting)
  • Fee Calculation Version (Fee Calculations Modified Date in a different format)

Report developers are expected to maintain Author’s Company and Report Type information.

Note: Beck Technology is responsible for maintaining the Fee Calculation Version.

Scripts Modified Date

The Scripts Modified Date is included as a comment inside the Scripts tab. This comment is located at the top of the script, right below the using directives.

Report developers are expected to maintain the Scripts Modified Date value when making scripting changes.

Note: Inside the Scripts tab, there is a “Calculate Fees” region. The top of this region contains a comment for Fee Calculations Modified Date. Beck Technology is responsible for maintaining this date and code.