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Reporting Periods Overview
Reporting periods represent time periods during a project. The feature is commonly used to manage grant reports or progress reports (including narrative, results, financials, and files).
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Creating Reporting Period records is essential for Indicator Management and Financial Management features to function.
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Create Reporting Period Records
Reporting Periods in Amp Impact can be created manually one by one, or automatically in bulk.
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📝 Create Single Reporting Period Records Creating single Reporting Period records manually is helpful when adding Reporting Period records to an in-flight project. |
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Create Multiple Reporting Period Records using a Wizard Creating multiple Reporing Periods using the wizard is helpful when initially creating Reporting Period records according to a pre-defined reporting schedule for a project. |
Manually Create Single Reporting Period Records
1.Navigate to the Setup tab on the Project.
Scroll to the Reporting Periods related list.
Click the ‘New’ button.
Select the Reporting Period type you’d like to create: Baseline or Reporting Period.
If you have chosen Baseline, enter all the fields required in the New Reporting Period: Baseline option and then click “Save”. Ensure that the ‘Reporting Period Name’ field is filled out consistently as ‘Baseline’.
If you have chosen Reporting period, enter all required fields in the New Reporting Period pop-up and then click “Save”.
Reporting Period Name: Enter a Name for the reporting period.
Ensure your naming convention is consistent with your organization’s standards. For example, are
time periods referred to as Q2 2017 or Apr-Jun 2017? Does the fiscal year start in January, April,
October? Consistency is important to get the clearest output from the system.
[If using translations] Enter the translated value(s) for the Reporting Period label in the appropriate field.
Ensure that the translated value corresponds to the Language code defined by the System Admin.
For example, if the System Admin has set up the Custom Label USER_LANGUAGE_CODE such that
Language 1 is ‘Spanish’, enter the Reporting Period in Spanish for ampi__Name_Language_1__c.
If up to three supported languages are enabled and set up by the System Admin, populate the
following fields in the languages defined as Language 1, Language 2, and Language 3:ampi__Label_Language_1__c
ampi__Label_Language_2__c
ampi__Label_Language_3__c
Report Type: Select the Report Type. This controls which indicators will be reported on in this reporting period.
If my report type is quarterly, then all indicators with a quarterly reporting frequency will display for
this reporting period.
Reporting Period Start Date and Reporting Period End Date: Enter the start and end dates for the reporting period.
5. Click Save.
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Users will be able to create duplicate records through the native Salesforce interface if no additional validation or review process is in place. |
Automatically Create Reporting Periods In Bulk
Reporting Period records can also be created in bulk according to a pre-defined reporting schedule for the project or grant using the “Generate Reporting Periods” Wizard.
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Contact your System Administrator if the “Generate Reporting Periods” button is not available on your page layout. |
Navigate to the Project.
Click the ‘Generate Reporting Periods’ button.
Complete the required fields in the pop-up that renders.
Select a Start Date and End Date to define the Reporting Period schedule.
Select the Reporting Due After (days) and the
of the Reporting Period(s).
Users have the option to create an initial baseline Reporting Period record to track baseline data before interventions start. In this case, the user can check the checkbox field “Do project indicators have baseline data?”. For example, if the user had set the reporting frequency (Reporting Period Type) = Monthly, Start Date = 1/1/2023, End Date = 31/12/2023, and checked the checkbox to create a baseline Reporting Period, 12 monthly Reporting Periods and a baseline Reporting Period will be created for the project.
Click “Next “
Reporting periods will then be created depending on the frequency chosen, between the start date and end date mentioned earlier. The number of Reporting Periods created will be mentioned in the popup.
Click on “Finish” to see the list of all the Reporting Periods that are created in the Reporting Periods related list.
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A warning will be displayed if a user attempts to create duplicate Reporting Period(s). Users will have the option to proceed to create duplicate Reporting Period(s) if they choose to ignore the warning. The only exception here is for the ‘Reporting Period for Baseline’ - this record cannot be duplicated using the wizard and ultimately, the user will not be able to create the other Reporting Period records through the wizard if they are trying to create a duplicate ‘Reporting Period for Baseline’ record. This de-duplication is only triggered when users create Reporting Period records using the wizard. Users will still be able to create duplicate records through the native Salesforce interface without a warning. |
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Please refer to Record Feature Limits as limitations do apply to the number of Reporting Period records that can be created in one interaction. |