Advanced Viewer Online Walkthrough
Advanced Search Viewer is Oracle’s ad hoc querying viewer. It is accessible to most people with IDEAS access and can be used to view reports that are customized for one’s particular college or unit.To begin, we must first login to ideas at http://ideas.wvu.edu After you have logged in,
you will see the following screen, click on IDEAS
Report Viewer to continue.
After we have clicked on advanced search viewer, we will be taken to the
Discoverer Plus Viewer entry page. On this page, we have the option to either
make a more permanent connection or log into the system directly. To create
a connection, click on the Create Connection Icon on the right hand side of the
screen and follow the instructions that were given in class. To enter the
system directly, you should type your user name and password in the boxes
labeled as such and in the text box labeled Database you should type
ideaprod Press Enter or click on the box labeled Go.
You will be presented with a list of reports that are available for you to
run. Next to each report name is a blue arrow with a plus sign, click on the
arrow next to the report you would like to see and a list of worksheets within
the report will appear. (As a side-note, in the old version, reports had a
persons name in front of them; e.g. RDEAN.Coll_enrollment or LDELEURERE.Students Enrolled. The new version eliminates the
name prefix and will now be called simply Coll_enrollment or Students Enrolled.
If you have difficulty finding a report you used to use, feel free to call
293.4245 and we will attempt to help you locate it.) A worksheet in Viewer is
very similar to a sheet in Excel, they each contain different data somehow
related to the report as a whole. We can click on the name of the worksheet to
run it. For this example, we will click next to UNIV_Grades of Students and choose the sheet labeled End of
Term Grades by Course.
We will now be presented with our parameters screen if it has any. On this
screen, we can customize the report to return the data specific to our request.
We will be presented with a list of parameters that we can change. If there is a
flashlight next to the parameter box, we can click on it to be presented with a
list of values from which we can choose. After we have chosen our parameters, we
can click on the go button at the bottom of the screen. Very
frequently, we will see a Registration Term or Student File Name parameter. This
parameter chooses the time for which the report is run. It is of the form
‘YYYYTT-MMDDYY-CensusEnd’ YYYY is the year of the term
you are running, in this case 2005. TT is the first month of the term 08 would
be Fall semester, 01 would be spring semester 05 and 07 are Summer 1 and Summer
2 respectively. The next six digits are the date on which the file was put into
the system. In this example, January 2 of 2006. The last part of the term tells
whether it is a CensusEnd, CensusBegin or Current File; CensusEnd is the final
HEPC cut for the semester, it contains the grades of
students and semester GPAs, CensusBegin is the beginning of term HEPC cut, Current is a weekly cut of the census file that
gives recent information, but is not HEPC
verifiable. For this example, we will accept the default.
After a few minutes, your report will appear on the screen. At the top of the
screen, there will usually be a title that explains a little bit about the
report (circled in green), below that are the parameters you chose. You can
change them as you did on the earlier screen and press go to rerun your report
with new parameters. Below that are the page items (circled in Yellow) These
allow you to limit the data you pulled to specific things without running the
entire report again. In this case, our report is only pulling Pre-Forensic
majors, we can pull down the column and instead choose to look at Pre-Biology
majors. Notice that the only majors available are UGASC
majors, to see other colleges, we must change the Student College field to the
Colleges majors we wish to see. If we wish to see all majors within a college,
we select <All>. Below the page items is the actual data in the report. If
we wish to export it to Excel, we can click on the Export button on the left
hand side of the screen and follow the instructions(circled in Red) If we wish
to run another report, we can click on the link that says Workbooks at the top
of the screen (Circled in Blue).
Congratulations! You have just run your first report in the new Advanced Search Viewer. If you have any questions, please call the Division of Planning at 293.4245 or email us at planning@mail.wvu.edu