Jonathan Vester, Director of Institutional Technology
Nash 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

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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
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Video Example
PDF Example

All Sections:
All Sections With
An Online
Component:

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

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

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

‘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.

var txt = person_to_Student_assoc_students_to_Person_assoc_id.toString(); var a; if (txt.length == 7){ Find out the length of the string
} a = txt; Do this if true
} else if (txt.length == 6){ a = '0'+txt;
If it is not seven characters long, try this test
Do this if true else if (txt.length == 5){ a = '00'+txt;
} else{
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 a = "<div style='text-align:center;height:100%;font-weight:bold;color:red'>ERROR</div>"
} a;

In a web report
In a Live Excel worksheet

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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