Argos© Reporting

Well, after a number of folks asked me, "Why don't you have a web page dedicated to reporting", I decided to start putting my thoughts down and get started. I am not by any stretch of the imagination a web page designer, so this site will not have a lot of the fancy stuff you have come to know and love. But then, that's not the point.

I have looked at many web sites dedicated to reporting but found few that specialized in reporting data from a database. So, with that in mind, lets get started and get some housekeeping detail out of the way. My name is Calvin Deiterich and I work at Harrisburg Area Community College, a five campus community college located in south-central Pennsylvania. I have been working with the Sungardhe Banner Software since 1999 and with Evisions' Argos since 2008. I am Senior Systems Analyst for the Student Accounts area and also do much of the cross-module reporting for areas like Institutional Research. I can be reached at cedeiter at hacc dot edu. I am also the owner of The Deiterich Group, a consulting firm which supports colleges in the areas of business analysis, reporting and accounts receivables. Email me at DeiterichGroup at comcast dot net for assistance.

I would like to thank the folks at Evisions for allowing me to use the name Argos, which is the name of their reporting tool. Do not ask me to send you any DataBlocks that I have created. If you would like them, I will upload them up to the Evisions' Coop and you can download them from there. Finally, although this site is mainly dedicated to reporting using Argos, much of the information on these pages will be applicable to any reporting arena. Now, on to reporting.

• Reporting Basics
• The Why of It
• The What if It
• Argos Information
• The Parts
• The Forms
• The Parameters
• The Code Behind the Parameters
• The Reports
• Miscellaneous Information
• Argos Security
• Sorting a Report driven by a Union Query
• Adding a table using a ROWID function.
• Links
• BannerArgos - Bruce Knox
• BannerArgos - using Evisions' Argos Reporting Tool with Banner