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Overview

What Is Report Manager?
Report Folders
Report Parameters

What Is Report Manager?

Report Manager, shown below, is a web-based tool that you use to view, subscribe to, print, and export Datatel reports.

Report Folders

In Report Manager, reports are organized in folders.

When Report Manager appears, you should see the folders to which you have access. If you don’t see any folders, then please contact the Information Systems Center at x2106.

Note: Some reports may be located in a Test or Temporary folder. These reports currently are being tested for validity. When the report data is considered to be valid, you or someone from your department must notify the Information Systems Center (x2106) so that the report can be moved to the appropriate non-test folder.

Report Parameters

All reports have parameters that define the data that will be retrieved and displayed.

Report parameters display at the top of the report, as shown circled below.



Types of parameters that you may encounter in Report Manager include:

• Date
• ID
• Multiple-select
• Special

Date Parameters

To specify a date parameter, either enter the date in the entry field (in the same format in which the default date appears) or select the date by clicking on the calendar icon.

ID Parameters

To enter an ID number in an ID parameter field, enter leading zeros.

Multiple-Select Parameters

Some parameters allow you to select more than one choice. For example, the parameter shown below allows you to select one or more majors.

Selecting a checkbox causes data for that choice to be included on the report. For example, if you select the ACCT and BIOL checkboxes in the example above, then data for all records with an accounting major and data for all records with a biology major would be included in the report.

Note: Most multiple-select parameters have a Select All option. This option allows you to select all of the checkboxes at once. (If you want to select most, but not all, of the checkboxes, then select the Select All checkbox and uncheck the checkboxes that you do not want.)

Special Parameters

Some reports may contain special parameters, such as Include Blank, Do Not Limit By Campus Orgs, or Include Blank Mail Rules.

For more information on how these and other special parameters work, contact the person in your department who requested the report.

Null Parameter Option

On some reports, you may see a Null checkbox next to a parameter. Selecting a Null checkbox causes the associated parameter to be ignored.