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October 29, 2019

RPG Release: Updates to Time Schedule Information report

Based on user feedback, the Report Prioritization Group released updates to the BI Portal report, Time Schedule Information. Change Summary: The Time Schedule Information report now includes summary and detailed joint course loop information. Joint Course Summary Info:  New Filters  The following filters have been added to the Columns to Display parameter: Loop Joint Course Flag Loop Current Enrollment Loop Limit / Est Enrollment Loop Joint Limit Loop Joint Courses Joint Course Detail Info: You can now drill down to a subreport that contains detailed course loop info. Look for the column “Loop Jnt Course Flag”, and click the hyperlinked...

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October 24, 2019

RPG: Updates to Student Course Distribution

Based on user feedback, the Report Prioritization Group released updates to the BI Portal visualization, Student Course Distribution. Change Summary: This is the first major update to the Course Progress in Major/Student Course Distribution visualization since it was implemented about 3 years ago. The changes discussed below are mostly usability enhancements based on feedback we collected from users. Before After Display: Changed cells from circles to squares Removed Course Names from being displayed vertically on the top of a viz. Course information is now available in the tooltip. Updated the colors to be more intuitive (i.e. gray for “no activity”)...

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October 16, 2019

EDW Disaster Recovery Exercise on October 23, 2019

On Wednesday, October 23, 2019 from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. the Enterprise Data Warehouse team will complete our Annual Disaster Recovery Exercise. Because this exercise affects the EDWPUB SQL Server as well as Reporting Services Reports hosted on the BI Portal, your user experience may be impacted in the following ways: System performance issues may occur during this time Potential service disruptions Potential delayed data This exercise has been rescheduled from its original date of October 9, 2019. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at help@uw.edu. Update October 23, 9:22 a.m.: The EDW Annual DR...

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October 3, 2019

EDW Disaster Recovery Exercise Rescheduled

Update Oct 9 2019 8:21AM: The EDW DR Exercise previously scheduled for this morning has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for a later date. On Wednesday, October 9, 2019 from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. the Enterprise Data Warehouse team will complete our Annual Disaster Recovery Exercise. Because this exercise affects the EDWPUB SQL Server as well as Reporting Services Reports hosted on the BI Portal, your user experience may be impacted in the following ways: System performance issues may occur during this time Potential service disruptions Potential delayed data If you have any questions or concerns, please contact...

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October 1, 2019

Report Update: Undergraduate Eligible to Register (Columns to Display, Major/Minor and Intended Major Filters)

The Report Prioritization Group released an update to the Undergraduates Eligible to Register. This post summarizes those changes. Change Summary: UPDATE - Minors When "Default" value is selected in "Columns to Display" filter, Minors columns is displayed in the report. "Minors" is no longer an option in "Columns to Display" filter. The Majors/Minors filter order is consistent with updates to Student Degree Information. NEW -  Applied to Graduate A field in the "columns to display" dropdown is added called "Applied to Graduate" When the user selects the "Applied to Graduate" field the report displays a student's year qtr that they...

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September 20, 2019

New Report and Data Release: Cost Share Commitments and Contributions

Now Available in the EDW: Cost Share Commitments and Contributions data and report Do you find managing Cost Share with the Unmet Cost Share Report difficult because of the way commitments and contribution details are organized? If you could, would you like to dive deeper into how Cost Share commitments roll up to the Financial Organization at the Dean, Major, Department, and Subdivision levels?  Would it make your life easier if you could filter out closed Cost Share Commitments or analyze data by the Award End Date? Thanks to the partnership between Information Management team in UW-IT and Kirsten DeFries,...

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