2. Anywhere you want to go, how do you want to get there?... FAST

3. Making the most of the Advanced Options
Advanced Options are useful to aggregate, display and summarize your report data in a variety of different ways; from very simple to very complex, there are tons of options to make your favourite reports even more valuable!

4. Not all Reports are just “as they seem”
These are not meant to be “one-size-fits-all” reports, because we know that one size never fits all!
FAST reports are designed to be as flexible as they need to be to accommodate a wide variety of uses; each report can be used, re- used, sliced and diced in so many ways to meet so many end user needs
Let’s take a look at them using different examples!

5. Let’s start simple… Back to Basics: Pinned Reports
Let’s re-organize the report, remove the columns I don’t want and make a few other minor adjustments!
Don’t forget to SAVE so you can:
Run it again quickly and easily
Schedule it using the Report Scheduler
“set it and forget it”
Use HR -> Current Jobs Report -> aggregate down and apply custom filter to remove “no code found”, then sort and move around.

6. Who doesn’t love a good Dashboard?
You can create dashboards at the FAST Portal level
You can create dashboards at the Application level
What’s the difference, you ask?
Let’s create a couple and take a look!
Create a home page dashboard and use a student dashboard that is already there = IMUC

7. Now let’s look at a few more tools:
Cross Tabs
Grouping or Summing
Prep our data for Graphing!
Take a look at the Dashboard
Use Admissions report – already Pinned as My Admission Report – modify first to demo a XTAB using MAJOR across top, then display Admit type and Decision and Term, save as a GRID; THEN move on to grouping for graph prep using ONLY: Major, Gender and use Line Chart. ALSO show HR sample from Dedn’ report – Pinned!

8. Now for some more advanced stuff…
NEW: Virtual Columns
Allows you to create your own custom columns on your FAST reports
Private
Global
You can create Virtual Columns to:
Duplicate Existing Columns
Concatenate 2 or more columns together
Create a calculated column (apply a formula or equation)
Use Finance Reporting -> Summary by GL -> Need to revisit this when more data is available.

9. Last but not least….Dynamic Selections
This confuses everyone but is SUCH a great and powerful tool…and really not that tricky once you get the basics!
Can be used to:
Apply the report results from Report A as a filter option in Report B
Use data from an Excel spreadsheet to filter on a baseline FAST report!
Let’s do a couple examples!
Use HR Faculty Rank -> Pinned Report -> Full and Associate Professors -> SAVE and then run against YTD Benefit Detail Report for 1996 and all benefit codes -> can refine as needed. OR run against Employee Leave Details.
Then upload an XL file in STUDENT (use the Admitted Students XL) and run against Aged Receivables.