The Category Report has been replaced by the Category Pattern Report. Both the Category and the Range Report have been grouped into the new Category Pattern Report (see the section called “Category Pattern Report”). The old Category Report is still functional in Patchworks and is therefore explained below.
A Category Report is similar in format to a Standard Report,
however data can be summarized into different categories defined from
the source data table. Each row in the report represents data
summarized from
a range of planning periods specified by you and totalled. Column
headings are derived from all unique
categories found under the columnPrefix
for
the data table, whereas the rows are derived from unique
attributes found in the same table. This type of report allows
the user to create reports
about very specific and detailed data found in the
sourceDataTable
. Using two different
categories to display data can be useful in determining
characteristics such as, the area of each species (category 1)
that falls within
unique areal units, such as watersheds (category 2). Category
Reports output three files to provide a clear visualization and
summary of the data, as well as the raw data tables to be used in
other applications.