New Enhancements: Documentation and Limits

As I write this post, most templates are being generated with the following new enhancements:

Documentation is available by clicking on the hand above the submit now icon. This will provide you documentation for the template along with a narrative. Anyone is invited to help assist in this project by sending a description of a template and how they use it by to sashi@fau.edu with a subject line of Narrative.

Users may choose to limit their data if desired. For example, this may be useful when an individual has multiple addresses ordered by sequence number. One may select Sort Descending along with Limit 1 Value on Report to report the latest address.

Please feel free to contact me if you have other ideas for enhancements or questions at ext. 7-3156.

ODS Prod Academic Study Reports

There have been some changes with the new ODS V8 release that went into effect over the holidays. One of the changes affected the Academic Study View. The ACADEMIC_STUDY view was not working like it used to because Sungard has changed it to identify “active” students. However, since FAU’s records do not conform to the Sungard’s “active” records criteria, we were missing many records in this view.

This was not identified and resolved until today.

Please note that because of this, your reports which you generated earlier this week was using a database that held far fewer records than it should have and may not have been accurate.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns regarding the above.