To access the Initial Assessment Report capability, click the “Reports” Tab, then select the client for whom this report will be. (Change Folders as needed by clicking the down arrow… The “General” Folder is selected in the image below.)

Select a report type of Initial Assessment Report.

To generate an assessment report, click the “Create report” button.

Modify the Initial Assessment Report Template
A “template” file is a file (that you can edit) that represents the desired report. It contains all the formatting (tables, tabs, boldface, point size, fonts, etc.) that will appear in the final report. The only difference between the final report and the template file is that NutriBase “macros” are inserted in place of the required data.

NutriBase “macros” are strings of text that act as placeholders for other information. This allows you to create a customized report template that will suit a wide variety of clients.

Every NutriBase macro begins and ends with a caret symbol (“^”). For example, the macro ^LastName^ is a placeholder for the selected client's last name. And ^Salutation^ is the placeholder for the selected client's salutation (“Ms.” or “Mr.”) as appropriate for their gender. Any time you see “^LastName^” in your Template File, it will be replaced with the client’s actual last name in the final report that you create.

To create a new assessment report template, open an existing template file; edit it as desired, then us the “Save” or “Save As” option. You can use the same macro as many times as you wish throughout your report. You can add macros as desired to include additional information. Anything you type literally will appear in your report “as is.”

To see a list of all the macros available to you, view the "Macros for Assessment Report” Topic in this Help File.

Make sure the template you want NutriBase to use is selected in the drop down menus provided. You can create several templates for each client situation (whether they are trying to lose, gain or maintain their body weight) and these drop down menus let you select the template you want to use for this particular report.

Reports ending in “RTF” (a generic word processor format). You can open an RTF with MS Word if you like and you can save it in Doc or Docx format if you want to. Reports ending in “HTM” are HTML formatted – these are web page formats.

Initially, there are three template files for you to edit. The assumption is that you will provide clients with different information depending on whether they wish to lose, gain, or maintain their current body weight. You may add as many new template files as you require.

To see the relationship between the template file and the actual assessment report, first look at a template file… then look at the report that it produces.

Notes:

1) We recommend you generate a report after you edit a template to assure it is error-free.

2) If you misspell a macro, it will appear in the report as “UNDEFINEDMACRO”. If you see this in your final report, take note of where it appears and fix it in your template file.

3) If you are missing a “^” (caret) symbol in your template, you will have problems. Every macro must have one and only one caret symbol at the beginning and one and only one caret symbol at the end of each macro.

4) When the “UNDEFINEDMACRO” note appears in your report, the remaining macros may become unreliable.
Company Name. One thing you will likely want to do right away is to assure that your company name will appear in your Initial Assessment reports. Do this by clicking the “Header setup” button and type in your company information.

To create a Meal Plan Report, click the “Reports” Tab, then click the “Meal Plan” button: Use the resulting window to select your Meal Plan, set options, and create a report. After the report appears, click the Save Icon (it looks like a diskette) at the top of the report. Once again, note that you create your Meal Plan report in the “Reports” Tab – not in the “Meal Plans” Tab. The NutriBase edition you are using will determine the formats you can save to. Some of the personal editions do not support the save to PDF feature. This topic updated 06/24/2015

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