I Didn’t Know Web Reporter Could Do That! (Valerie M. Chase – valerie.chase@sirsidynix.com / eric.graham@sirsidynix.com)
As we haven’t had Web Reporter installed yet, kinda of everything was “I didn’t know that”!
Anyway, hopefully these notes will act as a reminder once we’re up and running…
filters…
- once you’ve run a report, you can run the re-prompt to reselect the filters for the report without going all the way back
- “view filter”s limit the existing results (rather than re-running the report)
- “qualify” works well for limiting by dates, etc
- to create new filters, you need to use the desktop client:
- select “new” / “filter”
- if you want a prompt, you need to hit the “prompt” button
- prompts can be either single select (drop down list), multi-select, check boxes, or radio buttons (use the web options “modify” button to do this)
- right-click, “search for dependants” will show you every report that uses a specific filter
consolidations…
- allows you to do a grouping (e.g. combine all the “reference” types together)
- remember to enable subtotals!
- you can use consolidation to group together months (e.g. “summer”, “winter”)
metrics…
- e.g. create a new metric to combine phone, OPAC, etc renewals to get the total renewals
threshold…
- add a new qualification to highlight parts of the report results (e.g. show certain results in red)
advanced formatting…
- e.g. change year format from “2005” to “05”