5. How Report Data Is Included by Date Range

How date range works

Most report fields let you choose a date range.

GoBuid uses the selected date range to decide which records appear in the report. This helps the report show what actually happened during that period.

What GoBuid includes

GoBuid includes records and events that happened within the selected date range.

Depending on the report field, this may include:

Activity progress records
Manpower clock-in/out records
Equipment check-in/out records
Equipment status or location records
Budget request records
To-Do updates or comments
Uploaded files or photos
Approval or history records

If a record happened during the selected date range, it can appear in the report.

What GoBuid does not include

GoBuid does not mainly use an activity, task, or item’s planned start date or planned end date to decide whether it appears in the report.

This means an item may not appear even if its planned date range overlaps with the report date range.

For reports, the important question is:

Was there an actual record or event during the selected date range?

Why a section may be empty

A report section may be empty when there are no matching records in the selected date range.

When this happens, GoBuid shows an empty state for that section. It does not show records from outside the selected date range just to fill the report.

Examples

If an activity is planned for the whole month, but progress was only recorded from May 1 to May 7, a report for May 8 to May 14 will not show those May 1 to May 7 progress records.

If a worker clocked in during the selected date range, that manpower record can appear in the report.

If a budget code exists in the project but has no budget request records during the selected date range, that budget section may be empty.