This article will help you configure your store for a manual police export.
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For more information about other Export formats, click below.
Police Export Configuration
Start by checking your Police Export Configuration settings. Select System Configuration from the Bravo Dashboard.
Navigate to the Configuration Tab, then scroll down and open Police Export Config. You are going to want to edit the Primary Police Export Config settings.
For information about setting a Primary and Secondary Export type, click here .
Enter the following settings:
- For Police Store ID enter 1
- For Export Type select FILE
- FTP User Name and FTP Password can be ignored.
- Store License is required for California Stores only.
- Leave the rest of the fields blank.
Click Save.
Configuring the Report Layout
After you have configured the FILE export type, you will need to set your Police Export Layout.
Click on Police Export from the Bravo Dashboard.
Click on the radio button 
next to Send New Exports.
You will be brought to the Police Export Screen.
To add new columns, right click on the title row of the report.
Select Show Column Chooser.
The Column Chooser will appear. This feature allows you to scroll through all of the available columns. Go through this list and select all of the columns required by your police department.
When you find a column that you need to add, simply click on it and drag it to the appropriate placement within the report.
You will see two arrows indicating where the column will be placed. Release the mouse when you are ready to set the column.
You can move columns into different positions in the same way. click on the column header and drag it to the correct location. Release when you see the arrows indicating the new placement.
If there are columns that you do not need on the report, click on that column's header and drag it away until you see a red 
.
Release the mouse and the column will be removed. If you remove a column in error, it can be retrieved from the Column Chooser.
Once you have the report set up correctly according to the requirements of your local police department, click on Save Layout from the right hand column.
Clicking on Save Layout will save all of the changes you made to the report layout. You will only have to set this up once.
Sending the Export
Click on Police Exports from the Bravo Dashboard. Alternatively you can access this function from the Loans/Buys screen.
Select the radio button 
next to Send New Items
If you need to resend an earlier date, select the radio button 
next to Resend Prior Export and select the correct date.
Bravo keeps the last 90 DAYS of police exports for the Resend Prior Export button to use.
From the Police Export screen, select Print List
You will be brought to a Report Preview screen
Click on the Export Document icon 
. This will give you a list of file types that you can save the export in.
Then, you will need to click the 3 dots (aka ellipsis) and change the file path to save to as well as name the report. It is a good idea to have a folder on your desktop for this. Leave the box checked for Open file after exporting when saving if you need to preview the information, otherwise uncheck the box.
You will need to save your file. It is a good idea to have a folder set up on your desktop specifically for the export file.
Choose the correct folder and give your export file a name. Click Save.
If you preview, Bravo will open the file type that you exported to.
Close the file window when finished.
On the Report Preview screen, click Done.
You should now be back on the Police Export window. Click Mark All As Exported from the right hand menu.
Bravo will confirm that all files were marked as exported.
Click Done to go back to the Dashboard. The Police Export Button will now show no active items.
Your export is complete for the day.