Hello,

Before listing the steps to display the report, it's important to point out that it requires you to have entered the dividends received from the various securities in the report. If you have not entered the transactions, the report does not automatically track and display the dividends for securities.

That in mind:

If you're working in the portfolio section of StockCentral, click the portfolio first, to see the basic reports. Click Advanced Reports, near the top right of the page, to see more reports. From there, click Security Dividends in the left-hand column.
Select the portfolio you want to display the report for, and the range of dates. By default, all of the securities in the portfolio will be selected.
Click Submit, and the report will be displayed.

Hi,

For any portfolio not marked as SIMPLE on the main portfolios page, click the name of the portfolio, to get to the default Valuation report. Check above the title of the report for a link titled Transactions. Click that link, and you will see a list of all the transaction types that the site knows how to accommodate.

As far as automatic entry, this part of the site is carried over from the club accounting site, where we didn't want to assume either way that the dividends would be accepted as is or always reinvested.
If you start to make an entry, some information such as the ex-dividend date, and the amount of the dividend (based on the number of shares as of the date you enter for the dividend) will fill in automatically, so it's not 100% manual.

As far as the utility of the report, primary purpose is to work with the Buy and Sell transactions you're entering as part of the record-keeping, to help keep track of whether the dividends are Qualified or non-Qualified.