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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