ART
Release Notes
This document lists the key
changes from DWOW to ART. You may also want to check the
FAQ page for
postings related to "Data Warehouse/ART" and
"Crystal Reports" for answers to any questions you
may have.
 What's
New In ART?
New
Login Page - ART has a new "look" on
the login page, bringing it into alignment with the overall design
elements of the other UCAR web applications. It will, however,
continue to use a unique logon and password - not the CAS logon
that is used for most other UCAR web applications.
All website links to "DW on the Web" will have changed to
"ART" when
ART is released. If you find a link we missed, please
contact the F&A IT webmaster
with the location of that link.
Navigation - The general layout and navigation of the
ART pages are very similar to what you have had in DWOW for some
years. Now, however, the graphic elements have been customized to
reflect the common design of the UCAR web applications. One
navigation change of note is the path for changing your Report
Viewer preferences (necessary if changing from using Mozilla
to Internet Explorer, for example). Before it was simply a
matter of clicking on the Preferences button at the top right
corner of the window. Now, after clicking on the Preferences
button, you will then need to click on the "Crystal
Reports" link on the top left portion of the Preferences
window.
New
Folders - While many are not populated at the release of ART,
additional folders to house customized reports for the NCAR
Laboratories and Institutes have been implemented. As
reports are developed in the coming years to be shared by staff
within the various entities, they will be posted in the associated
folder.
Report
Modifications - A number of the division-based reports
inherited from DWOW have been enhanced to allow multiple division
codes, and an example, multiple variations on how many and which
account keys will be chosen to display in the report. Some
examples of this are the "Paymentnet" reports in the
Financial Summaries folder, a number of the HR reports in the
Division HR reports folder, and the "Fiscal YTD Transaction
Detail By Division" report in the Revenue & Expenditure
Detail folder.
Export
to Excel Fixed - When exporting to Excel from DWOW, it was
necessary to unmerge the cells and redefine the print area due to
a bug in the Crystal Enterprise 8.5 application that ran DWOW.
That bug has been fixed in the Crystal Enterprise 10 application
that runs ART, and the resulting exported reports are much easier
to work with in Excel than before.
Access
to More Data - Over the years, more and more Crystal Reports
have been developed to access data from other locations than the
Data Warehouse. Within the ART system, data from additional
databases such as Bi-Tech (yes, we're "going live"!),
EventMaster, Advance Notice, Remedy and the new HR Information
System will be made available accordingly. Hence the new name
"Administrative Reporting Tool",
rather than just the Data Warehouse On the Web.
Look for more exciting developments on this front in the near
future!
Impact
to Crystal Report Writers - ART operates on the Crystal
Enterprise 10 application. This system can only display
Crystal Reports from Crystal Reports version 9 or 10. When you
download a copy of a report for customization from ART, it can
only be opened in one of these two versions of Crystal
Reports. Downloading "originals" of reports
before modification is the recommended procedure, as this
provides you with the most up-to-date version of the report
available, as opposed to re-using a previously-modified copy of
the report that may be on your computer. It is important to note
that many of the reports that were inherited from the DWOW system
were re-written and improved as part of the upgrade to ART.
Keep in
mind that if you wish to post a report to the ART application to
share with others in your work group, the same version
compatibility constraints apply. Per launch date of March 3, 2005,
all current Crystal Reports writers in UCAR have been notified of
this and recommendation given to upgrade their installation of
Crystal Reports to a minimum of version 9 to stay in sync with the
Web-based application.
If you have questions about the content of this page, please contact the
F&A IT Help Desk with the subject "ART
Release"
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