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[[MAST Online]] reports have been designed to provide quick and easy access to important numerical information for road safety professionals.

==How do users view reports?==

The MAST [[Select Report page]], which is the first page users see after login, list all the reports available to them.

The [[Edit Report page]] displays the current active report, and allows the user to edit, save, print and download report results.

==How are reports created and saved?==

To create new reports, users click the [[thumbnail]] for a [[blank report]] on the Select Report page, then use the [[Save Report]] link on the Edit Report page to save it under a name of the user's choice.

To use a [[public report]] as a template, users click its [[thumbnail]] on the Select Report page, then use the [[Save Report As]] link on the Edit Report page to save it under a name of the user's choice.

==What elements make up a report?==

Every report has two essential components, which are necessary to return useful results:

*A '''[[Measure]]''' to indicate what the numbers represent (for example, [[Crashes Measure|crashes]] or [[Casualties Measure|casualties]])
*A '''[[Category]]''' to specify how the data is organised (for example, by [[date]] or by [[Severity hierarchy|severity]])

There are two ways in which these components can be displayed:
* In a [[Chart View]] column chart, categories are on the horizontal axis and a value scale for the measure appears on the vertical axis
* In [[Grid View]], categories appear as row titles and exact values of the measure appear in the corresponding cells

Each MAST [[blank report]] has a default measure and category, which can easily be changed if different information is required.

==Optional report elements==

Other elements can be added to reports, including:
*A '''[[Series]]''', to group data in different ways in the same report (for example, by both date and severity)
*A '''[[Filter]]''', to stipulate what should and should not be included (for example, to restrict a report so it only includes crashes occurring in a certain area)

There are two ways in which series can be displayed:
* In a Chart View column chart, series appear as different colours in the legend
* In Grid View, series appear as column titles

Filters are not themselves visible in the report, but they do effect measure values.  For example a filter might exclude all crashes which occurred outside a particular geographical area chosen be the user.

By default, blank reports do not have any series or filters, but these can readily be added if necessary.

==Indexed Reports==

[[Indexed reports]] allow extra index information to be added to a chart.

==[[Your first MAST report|Examples of MAST Reports]]==