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Martus offers powerful search capabilities:

• Simple search. Search for terms across all bulletin fields to find bulletins concerning specific activities or geographies.
• Power search. Choose specific fields (both standard and custom) in which to search and use AND/OR functionality to sharpen your search.
• Rename results folders. A folder may be renamed from Search Results to, for example, the name of a village/province or type of violation. In this way, search results are collected and stored for future analysis.
• Saving search filters. You can save frequently used searches for future use.

The Martus Reporting Tool

• Customized reports are created from information in bulletins, and can be printed to a printer or to an HTML file (which can be opened in a browser, or other application such as word processor or spreadsheet for further editing/formatting if desired.) 
  
• Reports include user-selected subsets of fields from bulletins that match designated search criteria.
• There are two Martus report formats. A tabular report lists bulletin fields as columns in a table, with each bulletin as one row in the table. A page report lists the selected subset of fields from each bulletin separately, and is formatted as bulletins appear when printed individually.
• Reports can display sorted raw bulletin data, and can also show summary counts of bulletins grouped by user-selected fields.
• You can save frequently used report formats for future use.

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The lasting power of Martus is the knowledgebase, which has two distinct audiences: information producers, such as grassroots organizations; and information consumers, such as human rights organizations, funders, and academics. Martus search and reporting functionality reveals the value of the knowledgebase.

Simple keyword searches across all bulletin data have the ability to reveal broad trends. Power searches — using AND/OR technology and field-specific search terms — allow highly targeted searches for very specific incident information.

Martus reports allow users to summarize and display data that matches user-specified search filters (e.g. the bulletins gathered over the last month grouped by regional offices, or the number of bulletins that contain specific keywords, etc.) Reports can be used to show progress of a data collection project, and describe the types of information that have been gathered.