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University of Wales Swansea
Voyager Web Reporting
Andrew BrownUniversity of Wales Swansea
University of Wales Swansea
Aims and Objectives
• Aim– To encourage Voyager users to setup and run
web-based reporting in their organisation
• Objectives– Know the benefits of web-based reporting – Know what is required to setup web reporting– Know the process involved in setting up web
reporting
University of Wales Swansea
Session Outline
• Why use web-based reporting?
• Putting it together
• Demo
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Benefits of web-based reporting?
University of Wales Swansea
Benefits of web based reporting?
• Improves access to report writers/creators– Potential to split SQL work/report formatting
• Improves access for report customers/users– Can run their own reports– Standard format of reports
• Increasing cost effectiveness of reporting– Separation of production roles and training needs– Quicker creation of new reports– Low maintenance
University of Wales Swansea
Putting it together – preface
• University of Wales Swansea– 15000 students / 3000 staff– South Wales
• Library and Information Services– Manage library, IT and
telephony across the university (1997 merger)
– 100 staff & six libraries– £4m (€5.7m) annual
budget
• Information Systems– 1.5 staff manage Voyager,
LinkFinderPlus and digital resources
– 450,000 bib records– Voyager budget
£40K(€57K)• Voyager maintenance
• Authority and bibliographic records purchase
• Projects (e.g. reporting)
• Essential trips to places like Helsinki…
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Putting it together – history
• Voyager implementation (Sept 1999)• Experimental web work and simple Access
reports (Late 1999)• Access reporting course (Early 2000)
– Improved Access reporting
• Reporting review (May 2001)– Two staff with SQL and MS Access experience and
Oracle drivers installed– Results of experimental web reporting– Small collection of MS Access reports
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Putting it together – problems
• Plenty of other things to do ;-)
• All MS Access queries required individual packaging into user friendly reports
• Experimental web reports – worked but not easily replicated by others
• Other interested staff but required training and support
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Putting it together – possibilities
• Features– Easier to author
reports– Easier to run reports– Cost effective– Minimise post report
processing
• Resources– No extra staff– Small budget (≈£1K)
• Solutions (Aug 2001)– Commercial package
• E.g. Business Objects
– Perl– Active Server Pages– ColdFusion 5.0
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Putting it together – proposal
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Putting it together – procedure
• Server hardware– Test server
• PII 450MHz• 512MB RAM• Cost – free!
• Server software– Windows 2000
Professional (patched!!)
– IIS 5.0 (patched!!)– Norton Anti-virus
(managed)– Oracle ODBC drivers– ColdFusion 5.0
(patched)
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Putting it together – procedure
• Report writer/creator client hardware– PIII 850Mhz– 256MB RAM– No additional cost!
• Report writer/creator client software– Windows 2000– Dreamweaver
UltraDev 4.0– MS Access 2000– Oracle ODBC drivers
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Putting it together – procedure
• Report customer/user client hardware– Anything…
…in theory!
• Report customer/user client software– Operating system– Web browser
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Putting it together – post test
• Testing results
• Upgrades
• Staff training
• Offline reporting
• Report conversion
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Putting it together – procedure
• Writing a report
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University of Wales Swansea
University of Wales Swansea
Wrapping up + demo
University of Wales Swansea
Any questions?
University of Wales Swansea
Any answers?