Export a journal as a PDF
Download one young person's day as a single document — what goes in it, and what doesn't.
A journal day can be downloaded as a single PDF — one young person, one date. It's what you send to a social worker or hand to a visitor who needs the day on paper.
Download it
Open the journal day and choose Download PDF, top right. It builds on
demand and saves as daily_journal_[the young person's ID]_[date].pdf.
The button is there at every stage — you don't have to wait for the day to be submitted or signed off.
What's in it
The document is headed Daily Journal, with your company's logo, and carries:
- The young person, the date, the home, and the status
- Who published it and who signed it off, with times, once those have happened
- Daily summary — the day's note
- Journal entry — your company's journal sections, but only the ones that have something written in them
- Staff daily logs, grouped by type
- Incidents recorded that day
- Manager's review comments
- Active goals
The footer records when it was generated, by whom, and your company name.
Two things to expect
The status wording differs from the screen. A submitted day reads Awaiting review in the PDF and Awaiting Review on screen; a finalised one reads Signed off.
Photo logs are left out. Photo entries are stripped from the staff-log groups before the document is built.
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