1. Jonathan Vester, Director of Institutional Technology Nash Community College

2.  Creating a real-time class schedule and availability report for different course types  Using Saved Lists for Input and Output  Retrieving Unique Values with Select/Returning  Using Live Excel Files  Simplified Net Price Calculator  Using Calculated Fields  Custom report values  Error checking

3.  Create the report once and give all Informer users access  Place the report on a schedule for all faculty  Reduce the workload of Administrative Assistants  Video Example Video Example  PDF Example PDF Example

4. All Sections: All Sections With An Online Component:

5. 1. Create your list of values…2.Click Export Results… 3. Tell Informer what to name your list.

6. Create your list using Colleague mnemonics, and use GET.LIST to retrieve your list of values for use in other reports.

7. Step1.wis VERB: SELECT FILE: ISIR.FASFA ITEMS: WITH IFAF.DATE.SIGNED GT 1/11/2001 AND WITH IFAF.STUDENT.ID NE NULL SAVEDLIST AFTER: SAVE.LIST ISIR.LIST1.PT1 Step2.wis VERB: SELECT FILE: SA.2011 ITEMS: WITH SA.AWARDED > 0 SAVEDLIST BEFORE: GET.LIST ISIR.LIST.PT1 SAVEDLIST AFTER: SAVE.LIST ISIR.LIST.PT2

8. Requires links between the tables Replaces needing SAVING UNIQUE in TCL/ECL statements

9.  Setup queries once, and skip the Informer step afterwards  Distribute data tools to non-Informer users  Use PivotTable and PivotChart features for deeper analysis  Keeps leading zeros

10. Using the structure provided by the June 2011 System Office guide, you can replicate the output in Informer Using a Live Excel sheet, it is possible to calculate the Net Price data automatically

11. Step 1 – Create the data feed Step 2 – View the results Step 3 – Setup the PivotTable and analysis

12. Useful when creating:  Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) Accounts  Moodle Accounts  Blackboard Accounts  Publisher Web-Supplement Accounts  Anything you want a custom field for

13. ${secCourseName}-${secNo}-${secTerm} Hidden Fields Custom Field Template = MAT-060-01-2011FA

14. ‘Add Calculation’ allows you to do more than just arithmetic. Informer understands JavaScript and HTML (even if you don’t). You can create if/then statements which modify your output based specific criteria.

15. var txt = person_to_Student_assoc_students_to_Person_assoc_id.toString(); var a; if (txt.length == 7){ a = txt; } else if (txt.length == 6){ a = '0'+txt; } else if (txt.length == 5){ a = '00'+txt; } else{ a = " ERROR " } a; Find out the length of the string Do this if true If it is not seven characters long, try this test Do this if true If it is not seven or six characters long, try this test Do this if true If it meets none of the above, tell me there is a problem

16. In a web report In a Live Excel worksheet

17.  Import/Export of reports coming in R4.3 (2012 Q1)  Common (shared) library in the discussion phase  Common Informer linkages a must – using standardized fields  Conversion to SQL version of Datatel  Informer Users Group

18. Questions/ Discussion