1. How Informer can benefit the Financial Aid Office
Informer for FA
How Informer can benefit the Financial Aid Office
Brandi Massey, System Office, Financial Aid SME
Daniel Boyette, System Office, Technical SME

2. Before you get started, ask yourself a few questions.
Why do you need this report?
What information do I want my report to display?
What file(s) and field(s) are needed to create the report?
Has a similar report already been created?
What filtering criteria is needed?
How often will the report be run?
How will the information be grouped
and sorted?
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3. Information for Report
We need a list of all students that have recently been admitted our college.
This report is useful in identifying students that have met all admissions requirements and are now ready to package financial aid.
The output of this report needs to be the student ID, student name, application status and the application status date.
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4. Informer Main Page
Search for existing reports
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5. Create a New Report
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6. Report Template
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7. Select Filter *An additional filter that could also be added:
AD = Admitted; PR = Provisional
*An additional filter that could also be added:
Appl Status Date = Today
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8. Columns
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9. Sorts
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10. Normalized those Multi-valued fields
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11. Scheduling a Report to run
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