After you have followed the steps to create the Narrative Changes Report, follow these steps to download the report. This report is a snapshot of narrative changes at the time the report was generated. The downloaded version will not automatically update when further changes are made to a plan’s narratives and must be recreated and downloaded each time you view it for the most updated version.
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From the Narrative Changes Report view, select ‘Download Report.’
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Your browser may require you to choose a location to save the report. If so, follow instructions to save the report.
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The report name will be in the following format: “MM-DD-YYY-10-26__narrative_changes__000000,” where the first part are the dates in month-day-year format, followed by the time, the text ‘__narrative_changes__’ and several digits. This name format indicates when you ran the report.
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The report will automatically save the file in a spreadsheet format.
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Open the report from the location where it was downloaded onto your computer.
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Columns included in this report are Year, State, Section, Requirements and Compare Changes columns.
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The text in the Requirements and Compare Changes columns are links.
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To open the narrative, select the requirement name link in the Requirements column. From this view, you can select Compare Changes.
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If you wish to navigate directly to the Compare Changes view of a narrative, select the link in the Compare Changes column. Follow the steps in the Compare Changes job aid.