| 2009 Conference update The conference is a great opportunity to meet your colleagues, to make new friends, share your ideas, and ask about experiences on the modules in RMS. See how RMS users find ways to make RMS work on their campus to streamline operations and become more user friendly.
Programs: We have about 40 sessions lined up for this year’s conference. RMS staff will also be on site with sessions on: Auto Allocation, Accounting, Student Web, Student Web Self Assignments, Mailmerge, Patches, Conferences, Judicial, Walkabout, Interfaces, Servers, DBA’s, Helpstar, Canned Reports and Enhancements.
We have a number of sessions where several of our colleagues will share with us how they are utilizing RMS, ranging from Crystal Reports, Student Web Self Assignments, Manual Assignments & Auto Allocation, Card Swipe Check-In, PEP, and short cuts they have found, views and many more.
Vendors will also be on site to share their products and the ease of interfacing with RMS.
Post-Conference Training Sessions:
Morning:
Basic SQL for Mail Merge
Both application mail merge and ad hoc mail merge letters rely on SQL statements to populate merge fields and identify who is receiving the letter being sent. During this half day session, participants delve into the three components of the SQL statement: Select, From and Where clauses. Topics to be covered include select distinct, the creation and use of aliases, concatenation, strings/substrings, working with null values, the inclusion of dates, and joins. The end result is a knowledge base that should provide participants the ability to develop most mail merge letter needs.
Afternoon:
Creating Crystal Reports in RMS
This half day session focuses on the use of Crystal Reports within RMS. Crystal Reports is a powerful report writing software that is used in creating customized reports. Participants are shown the basic concepts and procedures of Crystal Reports needed to create a report as well as connecting to a database, overview of RMS table structure and data location (e.g. what tables and fields to use), creating a view, steps required for users to view customized reports in RMS, and the setting of user permissions for customized reports.
Time permitting, participants are shown how to write and design more complex reports using such features as parameters and formulas.
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