Enhancement: Sub Line Counters on Create a Report

It was suggested in today's DARTBOARD class that a new feature be added to the "Create a Report" drilldown option. In addition to the option of invoking a Line Counter to be prefixed for each detail line, it is now possible to have a running counter on any field that requests to have a Subtotal, Page Break, Underline, or Skip Line. You must first check "Line Cnt" in order to activate this new feature. Below is a sample from the Academic Study template:

Select Line Cnt and Subtotal:

Results:

The BITS Office wants to help you achieve your reporting goals

Over the past year, numerous reporting templates have been developed and they may be just the ones you need to access to see your data. See the "What is on the DARTBOARD" report for a detailed listing of available reports you can run today. Access to all reporting templates is dependent upon your Banner security access.

Classes are offered periodically throughout the year. Please contact the BITS Office to find out how to get started or for advanced DART BOARD users, you may want to request a meeting to build a new (or modify an existing) report template.

Contact Carol Sashi at sashi@fau.edu.

A Drop in the Bucket

Please note that the BITS "Bucket" Newsletter has been replaced with this DARTBOARD Blog. Being able to interact and post current events and activities has been more effective. Therefore the Bucket has been dropped.

ENHANCEMENT: Excel Tabbed Worksheets

Excel tabbed worksheets can now be created via the "Create a Report" option on the DART BOARD by selecting your Output format to be Excel and by checking the Page Break/Excel Wksheet option below Field (1) as shown below. Note: your selection for Field (1) will be used to separate each worksheet.

Create a Report Selection (click on image for larger picture):

Excel Result:

ENHANCEMENT: Future term Academic Study records now available

As requested from the COB, the Academic Study templates now contains future term records. Please note that these future term records will contain active as well as inactive students. Therefore you should expect to receive many more records (unless you apply your filters effectively) for these future academic period terms.

FIXED: Issue with inability to click to drilldown on Statistics

The inability to click usually on a count in order to drilldown from the Statistics output has now been corrected. The cause was a 2,000 character limitation on the number of parameters to be passed through a web browser. The Statistics program now minimizes the number of parameters being passed.

DART BOARD Training Videos

Click on the topics below to view videos.


Learn how to activate your DART BOARD account, login and navigate to Reporting Templates and security requirements. (13:28)


Learn how to access report information by activating filters and organizing information by dimensions on the DART BOARD. (30:49)


Learn standard drilldown options: Show Me all the data, Create A Report, Create My LISTs and optional Custom Reports. (18:42)


Learn how to apply My LISTs to produce Labels and utilize My Lists as an additional filter on other Reporting Templates. (18:29)