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A View To The Data
Session ID: 443
2011 Evisions Conference
Debi Whitcomb
Senior Systems Analyst
Samford University
March 19, 2011
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Samford University
Samford University
Birmingham, Alabama
Samford University
• Chartered in 1841• 4,715 total enrollment (Fall 2010)• Eight Academic Schools
School of the Arts
Howard College of Arts and Sciences
Brock School of Business
Beeson Divinity School
Orlean Bullard Beeson School of Education and Professional Studies
Cumberland School of Law
Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing
McWhorter School of Pharmacy• Ranked in top tier of national doctoral research universities by U.S. News & World Report • Rated one of the 50 “Best Values” nationally among private universities by The
Princeton Review and USA Today • Ranked in top 100 best values among private universities by Kiplinger's• Largest privately supported institution for higher learning in Alabama
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Background Information
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• Converted to Banner 2005 – 2007
• Early adopter of Argos
• Many reports in production
• Heavily using the scheduler
Why Views?
• SQL challenged (me, not everyone)
• First moved to Banner – not familiar with SQL or the Banner tables – also new to Argos (we used Argos on PLUS to become familiar with it) – Concerned that we would be
reporting incorrect information and not know
• Joins already done – SunGardHE supplies many views where much information is available (student, employee, constituent)
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Why Not Views ?
• Performance Issues
• Some people prefer tables only
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PROCESS
• Create Argos report that defines the output
• Use generated SQL from Argos to create the view
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Samford Created Views
• My Views are set up in a separate folder within my directory• The Argos to create the view is called xxxxxxxxx_view• The output of the view is xxxxxx_vw
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Samford Created Views
Report Query in Argos
Email address- pidm with each email address in a separate field
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Samford Created Views
Email address- pidm with each email address in a separate field
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Samford Created Views
Other views: • Lifetime giving by fiscal year – broken down by hard credit and soft credit• Lifetime giving by college – broken down by hard credit and soft credit• Lifetime giving by athletic funds – broken down by hard credit and soft credit• Number of Samford Degrees – count of Samford degrees with a field
containing the latest degree year• Number of Samford Gifts – Number of gifts and gift amount by fiscal year• Number of years giving – Number of years where a gift was given and the
total gift amount• Useradmin – contains pidm, suid, username, username upper case,
lastname, fname, midname• Pledge report views – several columns on a pledge report – a view for each
column• Current student parent - parent pidm and Y indicator that the parent has a
current student• Current student parent email – student pidm and email addresses and
names for parents• Summarize hard and soft credit by date – two views that are used to create
giving between dates by college or designation
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GOTCHAS
Field names in the view must be upper case
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Questions
Questions
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Questions ?
Please complete a session evaluation formThis session ID is 443
For further information please contact Debi Whitcomb: [email protected]
or
Evisions’ Professional Services at [email protected]
