| ##### Summary reporting

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DROID can create a variety of reports containing statistics about the files and folders in your profiles, and save the report as several different kinds of file.

### Selecting profiles to report on

To create a summary report of one or more profiles, press the Report button, or select the Report / Generate Report menu option. This will bring up the profile selection dialog, which allows you to select which profiles to report on.

If a selected profile has an active filter, this filter will be used when generating the report. So you can produce different reports on the same profiles, by using different filters. For example, you could filter out all files which are very large, giving you averages which are closer to the mean values normally encountered. Or you could filter out everything except document formats, letting you produce statistical reports on document types only.

### Available reports

Once you have selected some profiles to report on, select which report you wish to generate. DROID ships with eleven pre-defined reports:

File count and sizes | The count, total size, and minimum, maximum and average size of all files in your profiles
Total count of files and folders | A count of all files and folders in your profiles
Total unreadable files | A count of all the unreadable files in your profiles
Total unreadable folders | A count of all the unreadable folders in your profiles
File count and sizes by file extension | The count, total size, and minimum, maximum and average size of all files in your profiles broken down by their file extensions.
File count and sizes by file format PUID | The count, total size, and minimum, maximum and average size of all files in your profiles broken down by their file format PUIDs.
File count and sizes by mime type | The count, total size, and minimum, maximum and average size of all files in your profiles broken down by their mime types.
File count and sizes by month last modified | The count, total size, and minimum, maximum and average size of all files in your profiles broken down by the month they were last modified in. Months are represented as a number from 1 (January) to 12 (December).
File count and sizes by year last modified | The count, total size, and minimum, maximum and average size of all files in your profiles broken down by the year they were last modified.
File count and sizes by year and month last modified | The count, total size, and minimum, maximum and average size of all files in your profiles broken down by the year and month they were last modified. Months are represented as a number from 1 (January) to 12 (December).
Comprehensive breakdown | A report combining all of the above reports into a single report. This report may take a long time to generate over large profiles.

### Building your report

Next, press the Report on profiles... button to generate your report.

Statistics presented are broken down by profile, and aggregated across all the profiles you have selected to report on.

### Exporting your report

Finally, if you want to save your report, press the Export... button. This will enable you to save your report in a variety of file formats. By default, all reports can be saved as:

- PDF
- Web page
- Text
- DROID Report XML

In addition, some reports have special output formats defined. As shipped, DROID 6 includes a PLANETS XML export option for the Comprehensive Breakdown report. All reports are generated from the DROID Report XML, so you can use this format to transform into any other formats you require, using XSLT technology. All report definitions, and any associated transforms are located in the report_definitions sub-folder underneath your user settings folder.

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