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June 2012 - What's New in Advisor View

Contents

More Professional PDF Reports

Themes

Easily Build Elegant Custom & Cover Sections

Improved PDF Report Builder

Enhanced Headers & Footers

Packaged Templates & Themes

Billing Reconciliation

Yield at Cost on the Holdings Report

Buy Date Renamed to Open Date on the Unrealized Gains and Losses Report

Video Lesson on June Enhancements

 

More Professional PDF Reports

From improved PDF template sections to more customization and new themes, the PDF reports in Advisor View are now cleaner and more professional.

We think you'll find the new PDF reports are easier to use and offer many new features that you'll want to take advantage of. But if you're not quite ready to make the switch, you can still create PDF templates the previous way by clicking Classic Templates on the PDF Templates menu.

Themes

While Tamarac Reporting does an excellent job of helping you personalize your reports, we felt our PDF reports would benefit from a more professional look. That's why we're excited to announce that you can now apply custom themes to your Tamarac Reporting reports.

Themes give you these important features:

For more information on creating and working with themes, visit PDF Themes.

Easily Build Elegant Custom & Cover Sections

The new custom report section builder simplifies the process of creating custom report sections. You can use the custom report builder to create professional cover pages, envelope insert pages, newsletters, personal letters, and more.

In the new version of Advisor View, you can add custom text, pictures, background pictures, data fields, and other Advisor View information directly in a custom section.

For more information on creating custom sections for your PDF reports, visit Custom PDF Section.

Improved PDF Report Builder

We've redesigned the PDF report builder for greater customization and flexibility.

Here are a couple of the improvements:

The settings for each report section have not changed except for a few improvements detailed in these release notes, so it shouldn't take you long to get used to the new design.

For more information on creating PDF templates using the new report builder, visit Create and Edit a PDF Template.

Enhanced Headers & Footers

Many of you loved the flexibility of creating headers and footers for your reports. However, you couldn't easily reuse the same header and footer on multiple PDF templates.

With this release, we've added the additional flexibility reusing headers and footers on your PDF templates - for example, you might want all of your PDF templates to use the same header and footer.

Headers and footers can have three lines of text. For example, you can have the date on one line, account information (account name, account number, etc.) on the next line, and the page number on the last line.

The header and footer areas are also split up into three columns: left, middle, and right. The columns are distributed evenly across the page – for example, let's say your PDF template does not have any margins and is printing in landscape orientation. When you print the report, the left column will span the first 3.66 inches, the middle column will span the next 3,66 inches, and the right column will span the remaining 3.66 inches (totaling 11 inches).

Headers and footer combinations may be assigned to a PDF template or modified for each section.

For more information on Headers & Footers, visit Contents

Packaged Templates & Themes

To help you get the most out of the new report improvements, our graphic designers have created report themes and color assignments that will help you take your PDF reports to the next level.

Our product experts have also configured several report templates for you to demonstrate some potential best practices in report generation.

The new report templates are:

Billing Reconciliation

In a previous release of Advisor View, we released a billing system that delivers an array of customizable billing features, so you can bill clients based on their preferences.

In this release of Advisor View, we're pleased to introduce billing reconciliation. With billing reconciliation, you can manually and automatically reconcile payments for your services, which helps you account for every billing statement and payment in your firm. You can now mark payments as unpaid, paid, and partially paid and run reconciliation reports to track your outstanding fees.

For more information on billing reconciliation, visit Billing Concepts.

Yield at Cost on the Holdings Report

You can now add yield at cost as a column on your dynamic and PDF Holdings reports. The yield at cost is the amount of annual income divided by cost basis and multiplied by 100. When the yield at cost is 0 percent, the column will be blank.

Buy Date Renamed to Open Date on the Unrealized Gains and Losses Report

To create a consistent labeling of fields across reports, we've renamed the Buy Date field on the Unrealized Gains and Losses report to Open Date.

Video Lesson on June Enhancements