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November 23, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Posted by soukupm at 4:00 PM | Comments (0)

New Job Submission - SZRCRSF

I created a new job submission this week called SZRCRSF that reports additional course fees for students. This will be used by the registrar's office for estimating tuition and fees prior to the term. The input parameters are term and vnumber. The output is crn,credit hours and fees for courses that the student is registered for.

Posted by soukupm at 3:07 PM | Comments (0)

November 19, 2010

Scarf Financial Aid EOY

I've been working on the Scarf Financial Aid end of year report and I ran into a problem that was throwing off some student's term balances. There was a detail code (A405) that was not supposed to be included in the aid calculation and this caused the students aid amount to be a negative number (financial aid will always be a positive number). I removed that detail code and the numbers balanced out.

Posted by soukupm at 2:36 PM | Comments (0)

Transfer Articulation webpage

A faculty member kept getting an error message on the transfer articulation page so I took a look at the code and it's calling a baseline procedure to select a student's ID number. This procedure was changed sometime in Banner 8.2 or so and returns a base64 encoded pidm instead of a varchar2. I changed the parameters on the transfer articulation page so that it can handle the base64 pidm.

Posted by soukupm at 2:19 PM | Comments (0)

November 12, 2010

Mobile Connection

I attended a webinar today on Sungard's mobile connection ( a framework for developing mobile applications ). It'll allow developers the ability to create mobile apps for the IPhone, Android and Blackberry and connect to Banner information. Some the examples that were shown were class lists, final grades, directory information, and campus maps. I looks very interesting and I believe it'll be useful for our campus. The first release will be available by the end of November. I'm looking forward to getting a copy of it to try it out.

Posted by soukupm at 3:55 PM | Comments (0)

Scarf Ethnicity

I added some logic to the scarf script for handling students that have not updated their ethnicity yet in Wolf Web via the ethnicity survey. It will pull their old ethnicity/race code if it exists. If both values are null, it will return with an "unknown" race code.

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November 5, 2010

Banner web CSS

I updated the stylesheet (web_defaultapp.css) in Banner Web this week because the version we had was from Banner version 7. I added some new comments to the file so it's easier to find the modifications that were made to the file.

Posted by soukupm at 3:29 PM | Comments (0)

Banner web - table display problem

When we upgraded to Banner 8.3, some of the apps in Banner web had display issues ( columns were not lining up in tables and some table data was left justified while others were right justified within a cell ). The problem is from a new parameter that was added to 8.3 for the new banner web UI. Since we're using the old UI, I had to remove the value under "Document type Definition URL" on the web tailor web rules. If we ever switch to the new interface, I'll need to put the parameter back in (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/transitional.dtd).

Posted by soukupm at 3:13 PM | Comments (0)