Jonathan Vester, Director of Institutional TechnologyNash Community College

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

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 ExamplePDF Example

All Sections:

All Sections With An OnlineComponent:

1. Create your list of values…2.Click Export Results…

3. Tell Informer what to name your list.

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

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

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

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

Step 1 – Create the data feed

Step 2 – View the results

Step 3 – Setup the PivotTable and analysis

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

${secCourseName}-${secNo}-${secTerm}

Hidden Fields Custom Field Template

= MAT-060-01-2011FA

‘Add Calculation’ allows you to do more than just arithmetic.

Informer understands JavaScriptand HTML (even if you don’t).

You can create if/then statementswhich modify your output based specific criteria.

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 = "<div style='text-align:center;height:100%;font-weight:bold;color:red'>ERROR</div>"}a;

Find out the length of the stringDo this if true

If it is not seven characters long, try this testDo this if true

If it is not seven or six characters long, try this testDo this if true

If it meets none of the above, tell me there is a problem

In a web report

In a Live Excel worksheet

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

Questions/ Discussion