By choosing the option to print Only entries with "specimen available" you're instructing the report generator to produce a restrictive report. This type of report is useful for seeing the diversity or the concentration of your collection.

The "specimen available" checkbox of the Checklist View is automatically updated for each entry you add to your collection.

By choosing the All checklist entries option, you're instructing the report generator to include taxonomic names for everything in the Checklist View, even if your personal collection has no corresponding entries. This type of report is useful for seeing your collection in relationship to the entire Plant Kingdom.

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By choosing the Print hierarchy starting at X option you're instructing the report generator to begin with the supra-ranks of a given name and proceed down the hierarchy to a particular level. To use this option, you must select which item in the Checklist you want to create the report for before showing this print window. The name shown in place of the "X" is the starting point for the report.

By choosing the All members starting with rank option you're instructing the report generator to list the named members of a rank without including any supra-ranks. This type of report can be useful in preparing a list of all family names, or all names of some other rank. Choose which rank to list in the report using the adjacent droplist.

When using this option, be sure to carefully choose the Include all ranks to this level option (see next item below for a description). Usually, you'll want to choose the same rank here and in the droplist above. It's possible though to produce meaningful reports using various combinations of these two.

In the list to Include all ranks down to this level you're instructing the report generator where to stop its listing. Choose the lowest rank in the hierarchy to include. When producing lists of your own collection you might like to set this at species or sub-species -- this will produce a good list of your specimen.

When producing lists of the entire taxonomic checklist, you should carefully set this. Setting it too low can easily produce a report that is hundreds of pages long!

Include outline numbers. Turns on the numbering of each item. Each sub-rank in the hierarchy starts all over again with the number "1".

Include rank. Prints the rank for each name (something like "classis", "ordo", "familia", "genus", "species", etc.)

Include author. Prints the name of the person who wrote the official description of the plant.

Include publication. Prints the name of the book or journal where the official description of the plant was first published.

Include synonym. Prints the true name of the item if this item is a synonym.

Include vernacular names. Prints the common name as well as the botanical name.

Include symbols. Prints a red checkmark for any name which has the "specimen available" box checked. Prints a blue checkmark if the name is of rank species.

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