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EDICS Internet Help: Ad Hoc Report Generation

The Ad Hoc report generator allows you to define both the selection criteria for collections to include in a report and the information which will appear in the report. There are five steps to constructing the report, spread over two screens.

Screen 1
The first step is to choose, if desired, an optional report title.

The second step is to identify the data elements that you are going to use as selection filters. For example, if you plan to look only a collections that affect businesses, select "Affects Business" as one of your criteria elements. A complete list of descriptions for the elements listed is included in this guide.
Ad Hoc Report Guide (HTML)
Ad Hoc Report Guide (MS Word)

Step three is to select the data elements which will actually appear in the report. Note that up to six elements can be selected, and that the first four lists provided contain relatively short elements, while the last two lists contain longer items (can be up to 2,000 characters), such as the abstract.

Step four is to select the "Submit" button, which will take you to the second screen.

Screen 2
Step five is simply to review the list of data elements which you have specified for the report, and make sure they are correct. If they are not correct, use the "back" button of your browser to return to the previous screen and fix them.

Step six is to complete the selection critieria. EDICS provides a selection of operators and values for each critieria element you chose. The selections are customized to each element according to their data type.

The final step, step seven, is to select the "Submit" button, which will generate the report.

 

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Last updated on 08/04/2006

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