Note: These instructions are not
a substitute for printing a Banner report to a specific printer attached to
Banner. That process continues unchanged.
These instructions apply to users who
want to review a report on their monitors and then have the option to download
that report or print that report on a printer attached to their desktops, or a
network printer that is not banner (unix) enabled.
- Run Report from Job Submission
- Go to Form GJAPCTL
- Enter the name of the job you want
to run in the “Process” field
- Go to Next Block
- Enter “DATABASE” in the “Printer”
field (necessary to retrieve your job later)
- Go to Next Block
- Enter the job parameter(s) needed to
run your report
- Go to Next Block
- Click on the SAVE icon which is the
left most icon on the ICONS bar (third line on the screen)
- Two file names appear at the bottom
of the screen. The number imbedded in those names is the only thing we need
to write down
- Wait for a few minutes to give time
for the report to complete. Those few minutes depend on the complexity of
the report and usually users already have an idea of the time the report
takes to complete
- View your report
- Click on “Options” located on the
Menu bar (second line on the screen)
- Click on the item “Review
Output”
- It will send you to the form
“GJIREVO”
- You will see the name of the report
in the “Process” field and the number you wrote down in the “Number”
field
- Double click on the “File Name”
field
- A smaller screen pops up showing all
the reports generated by the job you just run. If no report is available
yet, a message would appear at the bottom of the screen and you will have to
wait for a lapse of time enough for the job to complete to go back to the
previous step and double click on the “File Name” field
- Highlight the report you are
interested in viewing and click the OK button. Users are seldom
interested in the .log file, they are interested in the .lis, .l1, .l2…. .l6
files.
- The report will be shown on the
screen, and you can review it by scrolling up and down or left and
right
- Printing report on your local
Printer
- Click on “Options” located in the
Menu bar (second line on the screen)
- Click on “Show Document (Save and
print file)
- A smaller screen will pop up telling
that you are about to show the report on a browser.
- Click on the “yes” button to show
the report on a browser
- Once you can see the report in the
browser then you will be able to do anything you can do with a Web page such
as printing the page to your local printer and down loading the page
to your PC.
- To Print the report just click on
the “printer” icon or go to the “File” menu and click “Print”
- To download to your PC , go to the
“File” menu and click on “Save as”