Select Maintenance > Business > Custom FOH Reports to create custom reports to replace a report that does not provide you with information in a way that meets your reporting needs or to extend the existing default FOH reports. By creating your own reports, you have unlimited flexibility for reporting on any facet of your operation, such as comps and promotions, tipouts, and more. Additionally, you can filter the reporting data by one or many employees.

To allow a manager, or other employee, sufficient access to run custom FOH reports, access Maintenance > Labor > Pos Access Levels and select ‘Custom Reports’ under the ‘Reports’ group bar for each access level requiring the ability to run custom FOH reports.

Custom FOH Report tab

Use the Custom FOH Report tab to identify the report, to define how data included in the report sorts and appears, and to filter the job codes to include in the report.

Group Bar: Identification

Name — Identifies the report.

File name — Identifies the configuration file, created by either Aloha Manager or Aloha Configuration Center in the NewData directory, for this specific report. The name of the file is read-only. The naming convention is CustomFOHReportNumberx, where x is the sequential number of the report.

Allow report to be run for multiple employees at a time — Enables you to select and generate data in the report on more than one employee at a time. If you clear this option and select more than one employee, the report appears blank and with no data. Documented Version: v19.3.

Group Bar: Display options

Report format — Determines the format in which to sort and display the data in your report. Available choices include:

• Standard — Displays values for the entire day for the line item. This is the default behavior.

• Sort data in 15 minute increments — Displays the total value of each line item in 15 minute increments, for the entire day. Zero (0) appears for time increments for which data is not present.

• Sort data in 30 minute increments — Displays the total value of each line item in 30 minute increments, for the entire day. Zero (0) appears for time increments for which data is not present.

• Sort data in 60 minute increments — Displays the total value of each line item in 60 minute increments, for the entire day. Zero (0) appears for time increments for which data is not present.

• Sort by Day Part — Displays the total value for each line item for each configured day part. Zero (0) appears for day parts for which data is not present.

• Sort by Revenue Center — Displays the total value for each line item for each configured revenue center. Zero (0) appears for revenue centers for which data is not present.

Group Bar: Filter by Jobcode

Use the >> and << arrows to move items between the ‘Available’ list and the ‘Filter by’ list.

Number — Indicates the ID number assigned to the job code.

Name — Identifies the job code.

Design tab

Use the Design tab to add or edit configuration data for the selected report.

Group Bar: Design

Report lines — Represents the report line as it currently exists in the configuration file. You can manually type the dynamic calculations and strings in this column or click the ellipsis in ‘Edit report line’ to access the Report Line Builder dialog box and make your selections.

Edit report line — Allows you to access the Report Line Builder dialog box and make selections that build the report line for you.