Reporting

Setting the project-to-date opening baseline

Correct the running total a metric started from, so the project-to-date column is right.

Where to find it

Sidebar Reports cumulative figures

Before you start

The correct opening figure, from the last submitted report or GIA's own records.

Opening baseline / cumulative figures panel
Reports › opening baseline

The report has two columns: the period, and project-to-date. Project-to-date is the platform's own counting added to an opening baseline — the total that existed before the platform started counting.

Steps

  1. 1 Select Reports in the sidebar.
  2. 2 Find the cumulative figures panel below the figures table.
  3. 3 For the metric you are correcting, choose how its running total is built: from a baseline plus the platform's counting, or from a value you enter yourself.
  4. 4 Type the correct figure into Opening baseline.
  5. 5 Save.

What you'll see

The project-to-date column moves by exactly the amount you changed the baseline, and the period column does not move at all.

Good to know

Record why you changed a baseline. It is the one figure in the platform that is not derived from a record you can point at, so the reason has to live in your own notes.