Exporting scouting reports: layout and customization

FarmQA users can customize exported scouting report layouts from either the web app or the mobile app. This includes options for the orientation of your PDF, page size, map background image, and question layout. Follow the instructions below to learn more.

Downloading scouting reports

Adding a cover page to a scouting report

PDF Export options

Downloading scouting reports

Available from the: MOBILE APP and WEB APP

Permissions: ENTERPRISE ADMIN, AGRONOMIST, TECHNICIAN+, TECHNICIAN, OPERATOR

FarmQA mobile app

• Next click on the Scouting tab and scroll down to the past reports section. 
• Click on the report you wish to export. A dialogue box appears allowing you to select your customization options (see below).
  • NOTE: See the bottom of this article for details on each option.

• Send the report directly to the desired recipient by pressing the Share... button, or open the PDF on your mobile device by pressing the Open PDF button. 

FarmQA web app

• Click on the Scouting tab and select the report(s) you wish to export.
  • Note: Use the check box left of the report to select the desired report from the list view.
• Proceed by clicking the export button in the top right-hand corner of the screen (see below)
• Then click the Export icon at the upper right-hand part of the screen (pictured below). This will open the menu you will use to customize how you want to format your report.  

• After selecting an export option, select the format you would like to export your report as. You can export them as a single PDF, or you can have the information exported as an Excel file.
  • Note: multiple reports can be exported at the same time. They will appear in one PDF with one report after the other.
• FarmQA Controller will remember a user's export preferences to expedite the process of exporting future reports.

Adding a cover page to a scouting report

Available from the: MOBILE APP and WEB APP

Permissions: ENTERPRISE ADMIN, AGRONOMIST, TECHNICIAN+, TECHNICIAN, OPERATOR

• In the Scouting page, click on the scouting report you want to export.
• In the PDF Export Options page, check on the Show cover page box (pictured below).

• Use the provided text box to write up a summary of your scouting report. This will then be shared as the cover page for your exported scouting report PDF (pictured below). 

Limit the number of observation columns in a report

Available from the: MOBILE APP and WEB APP

Permissions: ENTERPRISE ADMIN, AGRONOMIST, TECHNICIAN+, TECHNICIAN, OPERATOR

• In the Scouting page, select the report you want to export.
• In the PDF Export Options page, use the Observation column limit text box to choose how many observation columns you'd like to have in your scouting report (pictured below). 

• Your scouting report export will be reformatted to only have the number of columns that were specified in the 'PDF Export' menu (pictured below).

Other PDF export options

FarmQA gives you a number of options to customize the format of your scouting reports. See the below descriptions to see how to use each option.

• Observation as rows
  • By default observations are listed as columns and questions are rows within FarmQA Scouting reports. This layout option works well for reports with many questions (ex: 5+ questions).
  • Toggling the Observation as rows option will flip the layout to display observations as rows and questions as columns. This layout works well for reports with few questions but lots of observation points (ex: fewer than 5 questions and more than 5 observation points).

• Suppress page breaks
  • If multiple scouting reports are being printed in the same PDF, FarmQA will automatically start a new page for each scouting report. Select the Suppress page breaks option to have new reports populate right after each other in PDF reports. 

• Related recommendation(s)
  • Toggling this option will add any Recommendation reports that have been associated with the scouting report(s) you have selected to the PDF report. You have the option of adding the Recommendation report First or Last in your PDF report. 

• Map type
  • This option can be used to change the background map of the field boundary image on your exported scouting report.
  • The following map options are available: 
    • Gray (DEFAULT)
    • Terrain 
    • Terrain with labels (this is the same map shown within Controller map view)
    • Dark 
    • Light
    • Road
    • None (this option is ideal for a summary report of multiple fields or Adhoc scouting)

• Weather format
  • This option allows you to toggle whether or not you want to see weather conditions in field at the time when your scouting report was submitted (pictured below). Selecting the None option will omit the weather data from your report.

• Header Options
  • FarmQA provides the following options for displaying header information on your Scouting report: 

• Logo with Enterprise Name 

• Logo with Farm/Field Name
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    • Logo only
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    • Enterprise Name only
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  • 
    • Farm/Field Name only

• Orientation
  • Portrait (DEFAULT)
    • Note: This option works well for reports with a significant number of observation points
  • Landscape
    • Note: This option works well for reports with a significant number of questions

• Page size: select the size format you want to export your PDF as. Below are listed the size options that FarmQA supports for PDF export. 

• Note: If you will strictly be viewing reports in a digital form, a larger page size can be used to appropriately space questions horizontally or vertically