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April 27, 2012

Degreeworks ADMITTYPE view problem

When I added the new scribe data "ADMITTYPE", I noticed that the data wasn't populating. After looking at the log files, it was truncating the pidm column name. It was supposed to be dw_admit_pidm but was using dw_admi_pidm. I renamed the view to dw_admt and the column to dw_admt_pidm and it fixed the problem. I think the problem had to do with the seven character restriction for banner table names.

Posted by soukupm at 3:27 PM | Comments (0)

Degreeworks - withdrawn classes issue

The registar's office found a new problem within Degreeworks this week. Withdrawn classes were showing up as "in progress" and they should be under "insufficient". I tried a couple ideas after reading the Degreeworks documentation but they didn't seem to fix the problem. The registar's office decided that they don't need the withdrawn classes loaded into degreeworks so I edited the bannerextract.config file and excluded those classes from being loaded.

Posted by soukupm at 3:16 PM | Comments (0)

April 20, 2012

Degreeworks - added new custom scribe data admittype

I added a new custom scribe data item "ADMITTYPE" to Degreeworks this week. This data item will pull the admit_code "TR" for transfer students. The Registrar's office will use this code to identify transfer students in Degreeworks.

Posted by soukupm at 3:25 PM | Comments (0)

Linux migration update

I updated the linux migration documentation and added information for using subversion to check in,check out, or update source code. The document is located in \Staff\Banner_Information\Linux Migration\Linux Migration.doc.

Posted by soukupm at 3:11 PM | Comments (0)

April 13, 2012

SHATCMT - transcript comments

I was working with the banner team on a problem with SHATCMT where the transcript comments seemed to be sorting in a random order for "999" comments. These are free form comments that allow you to specify a description (basically you can add your own comments and not be restricted to the descriptions in stveven). I contacted Sungard about this and they responded that the sort order is (1) by "Level" (shrevnt_levl_code), (2) by "Originator" (shrevnt_orig_code), (3) by "Event" (shrevnt_even_code), (4) then finally by "Effective date" (shrevnt_effective_date). So to have it sort we'll have to follow this sort order.

Posted by soukupm at 9:43 AM | Comments (0)

Degreeworks in progress courses update

I got a workaround for the in progress courses that are flagged as audits in Degreeworks. You have to add a grade of "UG A NA" in the UCXSTU385 table and set override to Y and audited to N. This instructs Degreeworks to set any UG level classes with a grade mode of "A" with no grade to non-audit. I had the Registrar's office test this and it seemed to fix the problem.

Posted by soukupm at 9:34 AM | Comments (0)

April 5, 2012

Compass (mathtest) updated text for algebra scores

I made a change to the recommendation results for the math test for scores 40 through 49. The recommendation said students could register for Math 95 if they received this score (this is not correct according to the math department). The recommendation text is buried under the customize menu, placement rules,compass math, algebra general. I already fixed the text for test 1 & 2. Tests 3-21 will still need to be done before SOAR this summer.

Posted by soukupm at 2:37 PM | Comments (0)

E-disburse SSO

I put the new single sign on link for E-disbursement into Wolf Web this week. I made a modification to the job TZPEDRF (response file process) that sends out emails to students so that it no longer refers to the old login/unique ID/password into the system.

Posted by soukupm at 2:26 PM | Comments (0)