Edit a report anytime to update what it shows or how it's organized. The fastest way to edit a report in Bloomerang CRM is to describe your changes with conversational reporting. You can also edit a report manually.
Tip: To quickly add or edit a report's description without opening the report, hover over the Description icon
for that report in the report list. For more information, read View and Edit a Report's Description.
Requirements
To edit a report, you have an administrator account or a standard user account with permission to edit reports.
Edit Reports with Conversational Reporting
Describe how you want to change a report in your own words. Bloomerang CRM updates the filters, columns, calculated columns, sort order, and groupings for you.
To learn how conversational reporting works and how it benefits your organization, read About Conversational Reporting.
Tip: If you use conversational reporting to edit a report, you can still manually change the filters, columns, groupings, and sort order at any time.
To edit a report with conversational reporting:
Click Reports.
To find the report:
Click the name of the report you want to edit.
In the How You'd Like to Adjust This Report text box, describe how you want to change the report. Bloomerang CRM can add, edit, or remove filters, columns, calculated columns, groupings, and the sort order for you. Examples:
“Only include constituents who gave more than $500 last year.”
“Add a column for each constituent's email address.”
“Group the report by campaign and sort by the total amount given, highest to lowest.”

Click Refine Report. Bloomerang CRM updates the report based on your description.
Review the report to make sure it's built the way you want. Review the filters, columns, sort order, and groupings. To view the settings for a filter, click the filter.
(Optional) To make more changes, repeat steps 4 and 5.
On the Details tab, update any of these as needed:
Name: Rename the report.
Description: Update the description.
Folder: Select a different folder.
To save the report, click Save And and one of these options:
Keep Editing: Save the report and keep working.
Export to Excel: Save the report and download a spreadsheet.
Schedule Report: Schedule the report to automatically email once, daily, weekly, or monthly.
Go to Report List: Save the report and go to the Reports list.
Edit Reports Manually
To manually edit a report:
Click Reports.
Click the name of the report you want to edit. If you have many reports, to find the right report, you can:
Enter one or more words from the report name in the Search Reports text box.

Click Folder and select a folder, if you organize your reports by folder.

To change the report data, you can do any of the following:
To add a filter, in the Include or Exclude sections, click And or Or.
To edit a filter, click the filter and then change the settings.
To remove a filter, click the X icon in the filter name.
For more information about filters, read Report Basics: Add Filters.
To add a column to the report results:
Click Columns.
Next to the column name, click Add. If you can’t find a column name, enter some or all of the column name in the search box.

Repeat these steps for each column you want to add.
When you’re done adding columns, click Apply.
To remove a column:
Click Columns.
Click Remove.

Click Apply.
To change the sort order of your report results, click the up or down arrow in the column name.
To add or edit a column grouping:
Click the column.
Click Group By This Column.
Select a Sort By option: By Value or By Number of Items in Group.
Select a Direction: Ascending or Descending.
To collapse each group to one row, select Collapse Group to One Row.
Click Apply.

For more information about columns, read Report Basics: Add and Edit Columns.
To remove a column grouping:
Click the first column.
Click Remove This Grouping.
Click Apply.
To edit the report's name, description, or folder:
Click More.
Select Details.
Enter a new Name for this folder.
Enter a new or updated Description for this folder.
To change the folder, click Folder and select a different folder or None
Click Save.

To schedule the report, or edit an existing schedule:
Click More.
Click Schedule.
For detailed steps, read Schedule Reports.
To save the report, click Save. The report stays open so you can keep working.


