DAVIS DriveRight VMS Getting Started Guide (8180, 8185) - Manual (Page 15)

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The Active Range is another powerful tool to isolate data. By
enabling the Active Range, a group of dates or vehicles may be
globally isolated from the overall database. All operations will
then take the isolated portion as its starting point before any
additional filters are added.
Reporting
The reporting tools are perhaps the most valuable aspect of
VMS for vehicle managers and other administrators. The
Reports… menu offers tools for determining use and safety
information.
In most cases, the amount of information needed for routine
operations is only a small portion of what is available. We
recommend that, once data is available, managers and admin-
straters run initial samples of all desired reports. Those which
the manager/administrator finds most valuable could then be
made part of a routine weekly and/or monthly reporting
schedule.
For summaries of driver and fleet data, we recommend check-
ing out the following reports: Driver Performance Score, Cor-
porate Reports (if you have set a corporate structure), Trips
(Graphical), and Aggregated Trip Information.
Passwords
By default, VMS sets no passwords. This default mode permits
anyone running it to perform any and all of the available
functions. The password feature allows access rights to be
granted to particular software users in various degrees. The
first user has full access and can then create other users with
specific rights to view, print and modify data.
Symbols
The creation and use of symbols may save time when a cer-
tain group or time frame is often isolated in a filter. By creat-
ing a symbol, the set of characters “01/01/1998…31/01/1998”
may be called “January 1998" when using a date filter. The
software comes pre-loaded with numerous defined symbols -
each of which can be added by pressing the Add Standard
Symbols button in the Setup|Symbols dialog box.