Transcript Document
DUCK & Stuff
Michael Quiner Director for Administrative Technology,
Whitman College
What is a DUCK?
The DUCK is an informal way for Datatel Users
on Whitman’s campus to learn new tricks and
tools in using Colleague. DUCK is a short session
for the AIS team to present ideas that will benefit
day to day users of Datatel. In turn, staff can pose
questions and suggest topics.
When, Where, Who?
Every Week (bi-weekly in summer)
½ hour maximum
Same place, day, time every week
All invited – every week
Provide goodies (or prizes)
What does a DUCK do?
Build Campus Knowledge
Build Documentation
Build Team Proficiency
Build Empathy
What topics are covered?
Datatel E-mail discussion
ListServs
Technical Documents On-Line
Finding Fields and Data (RDEL
& RDEP)
List Dict and File Element
Inquiries (RFEI)
Identifying other Users on the
System
Saving Private Queries
Printing Options
Core Standards
Hold File Options & Saved
Lists
Saved Lists & Hold file
Maintenance
The New UI 1.0 & Installation
Query Builder- Breaks and
Totals, Headers & Footers,
Prompts, Column Reformatting
SAAL - Saved List Algebra
Import & Export
FTP with TPF
http://wcts.whitman.edu/ais/DUCK/index.htm
Web Presence
Other options
UI 1.0
Our Experience
Released April 2001
60 to 70 of our 80 to 90 users on UI
Installed by 1 person over 4 week
Approx. 15 minutes to install
Portfolio of Interfaces
UI 1.0
Terminal – Fully Supported
Frontview
09/30/01 – End of Programming Support
10/20/01 – End of Full Tech Support
12/31/01 – End of Limited Tech Support
Navigation Improvements
Explorer Styles
Tree View – r17
Speed between apps.
Icons
Inquiry
Maintenance
Report
Process
Screen Improvements
Fonts & Colors options
Tabs
Close all tabs – r17
Special Buttons
Detail
Drop Down
Calendar
Calculator
Calculator
Calendar
Drop-down
Menu
User Choice Improvements
Favorites
Fonts & Colors options
Report Browser
Comm. Interface (w/Word –r17)
On the other hand…
OK on win2000
- Some win98 experience Insuf. Resource error when
running w/excel (datatel's solution center doc)
Change in default .wis directory
Was - \datatel\frontview\filetran\*.wis
Now - \mydocuments\wintegrate
QB - increased time out needed to PC/Process
Security Class Setup