Thursday, October 29, 2009

Printable Graphs!

Last week we released a new feature to allow therapists to graph their student's progress by goal.  We've been overwhelmed and amazed by the number of requests we've had in the last couple days along the following lines:


I love the new graphs! How do I print them???

Well, the short answer was "You can't".  Our vendor for the charting software was going to charge a lot of money for the "print" feature, and it just didn't seem worth it.  However, given the amount of demand we've had so far, it's been nothing if not unavoidable. Therefor, we went ahead and spent the cash, and the ability to export and print this chart has now been integrated into our website.

Here are the instructions:

1) First, pull up one of the charts from your student's goal page:



2) Now right-click (ctrl-click for Mac) the chart to get the context menu:


3) From here you can choose which format you want.  JPEG and PNG are both image files (like a photo), and PDF is what a lot of documents come in.  All three are printable, but if you're unsure or uncomfortable I would recommend PDF as it should do all the page margins for you when printing.  Once you click on the format you want, you'll see the export process begin:



4) When the progress bar hits 100%, the button at the bottom of the chart will change from "Waiting" to "Save":





5) Click on that "Save" button at the bottom of the chart, and the file dialog will come up to help you save the file:


From there you can do what you want with it:  Print it off, put it in your files for the student, whatever you want.

Remember, we're here to help make this product better for you.  Your ideas are welcome, and if we hear it enough it will happen one way or another. :)

~Ethan

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