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The Reports dialog is split into two parts. The first part, the Report On menu, simply allows you to choose whether to run site reports


on the current document, the entire current local site, selected files within the site, or a specific folder. The second part of the dialog is the Select Reports pane. It is from this pane that you'll choose the options for reporting. These options include the following: Checked Out By: When Checked Out By is selected, the Report Settings button in the bottom-left corner of the dialog becomes active. Click the button to search for an individual who has files checked out. It's important to know that this value is case sensitive; however, you don't need to type in someone's entire name. For example, if you were looking for Zak Ruvalcaba, you could simply type Zak, zak, or even Ruvalcaba. Design Notes: When this option is selected, the Report Settings button becomes active. Click it to bring up a new dialog where you can enter the Design Note to search for and how to search for it. When searching for a Design Note, you must enter a condition for the search to meet. Recently Modified: Choosing this option makes the Report Settings button active. Click this button to launch the Recently Modified dialog, which allows you to customize time range, modified by, and server location filters for recently modified files. Combinable Nested Font Tags: Use this option to perform searches for unnecessary uses of multiple Font tags. If, for some reason, there is more than one Font tag around a particular area of text, most likely it's because each Font tag has a different attribute. For example, the following Font tags <font size="3"><font face="Arial"></font></font> could be combined to read <font face="Arial" size="3"></font>. This option alerts you of this condition. Accessibility: As you'll see in Appendix A, "Accessibility," this option reports glaring accessibility issues. Checking this option also makes the Report Settings button active which, when selected, allows you to configure various potential accessibility issues to report on. Missing Alt Text: This option searches all <img> tags within your document to find missing alt attributes. Redundant Nested Tags: This option checks to see whether tags are nested inside themselves and removes them as necessary. For instance, <em>Visit Dorknozzle's website<em>today!</em></em> could be combined to read <em>Visit Dorknozzle's website today!</em>. This option alerts you of this condition. Removable Empty Tags: Use this option to report on any tags in your HTML documents that do not contain anything. Here is an example of an empty tag: <font></font>. Because the tag doesn't contain anything, it's not needed and should be removed. Untitled Documents: Use this handy option to run reports on duplicate titled documents, non-titled documents, and documents titled as the Dreamweaver default of "Untitled Document." To run a site report, follow these steps: 1. Choose the Reports option from the Site menu to open the Reports dialog. 2. From the Report On menu, choose the current document (if a document is open), the entire current local site, any file you might have selected in the Files panel, or a folder. For this example, I'll choose the Entire Current Local Site option. 3. Now that you've selected what you're going to report on, the next thing to choose is what report you want to build. You can choose from any one of the options discussed in the preceding bullet points. I'll choose all the HTML reports except for Accessibility. 4. Click the Run button to generate the report. 5. Dreamweaver scans the document and presents the site report as a list in the Site Reports tab of the Results window similar to Figure 4.41. Dreamweaver displays an icon symbolizing the severity of the error (a question mark means a minor error or one for which the user might have to provide more info; a yellow warning means that the error is slightly more severe than minor and that the