Banner General User Guide
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Banner General User Guide Release 9.3.1 December 2016 Notices Notices ©2016 Ellucian. Contains confidential and proprietary information of Ellucian and its subsidiaries. Use of these materials is limited to Ellucian licensees, and is subject to the terms and conditions of one or more written license agreements between Ellucian and the licensee in question. In preparing and providing this publication, Ellucian is not rendering legal, accounting, or other similar professional services. Ellucian makes no claims that an institution's use of this publication or the software for which it is provided will guarantee compliance with applicable federal or state laws, rules, or regulations. Each organization should seek legal, accounting, and other similar professional services from competent providers of the organization's own choosing. Ellucian 4375 Fair Lakes Court Fairfax, VA 22033 United States of America ©2016 Ellucian. Confidential & Proprietary 2 Contents Contents System Overview....................................................................................................................... 11 Banner General modules............................................................................................................ 11 Features.......................................................................................................................................13 More information......................................................................................................................... 14 Validation Pages........................................................................................................................ 16 Accessing validation pages.........................................................................................................16 Validation pages reference......................................................................................................... 16 Processing.................................................................................................................................... 31 Multi-Entity Processing procedures.............................................................................................31 Home context........................................................................................................................32 Process context.................................................................................................................... 32 How to switch between institution codes............................................................................. 33 How changing institution codes impacts your Banner session............................................ 33 Job Submission.............................................................................................................. 34 Oracle Reports............................................................................................................... 34 Running Oracle Reports from the page.................................................................. 34 Running Oracle Reports from Job Submission....................................................... 35 How Institution Role Maintenance Process (GURIROL) works........................................... 35 Setting up medical information................................................................................................... 36 Job Submission..........................................................................................................................38 Validation pages..........................................................................................................................38 Related report..............................................................................................................................38 Menu navigation table.................................................................................................................39 Job Submission procedures........................................................................................................40 Oracle*Wallet Proxy for Job Submission............................................................................. 40 Defining new reports and processes to Job Submission..................................................... 41 Setting up parameter defaults for Banner reports and processes....................................... 41 Setting up system-level defaults.................................................................................... 42 Setting up valid characters for the Special Print field....................................................42 Setting up user-level defaults........................................................................................ 42 Using GJAPDFT...................................................................................................... 43 Using GJAPCTL.......................................................................................................43 Changing user-level defaults..........................................................................................44 Using GJAPDFT...................................................................................................... 44 Using GJAPCTL.......................................................................................................45 Copying user-level defaults to another user..................................................................46 Creating a job parameter set.........................................................................................46 Using GJRJPRM......................................................................................................47 Using GJAPCTL.......................................................................................................47 Using Oracle*Reports........................................................................................................... 47 ©2016 Ellucian. Confidential & Proprietary 3 Contents Setting up default values for parameters 71-77............................................................ 48 Accessing the Oracle Reports URL (Report Server Showjobs).....................................50 Running Banner reports and processes...............................................................................50 Using Job Submission................................................................................................... 51 Running reports and processes.............................................................................. 51 Viewing, saving, and printing online output.............................................................52 To view, save, and print online output.................................................................... 53 Using the operating system prompt...............................................................................54 Job Submission messages......................................................................................................... 55 Can't read page by that name............................................................................................. 55 Can't read page by that name............................................................................................. 56 Run sequence number is invalid. Aborting job.................................................................... 56 Run sequence number is invalid. Aborting job.................................................................... 56 *ERROR* Problem communicating with job submission program. Seek Help..................... 57 *ERROR* Unable to submit job. Verify that the gurjobs program is running........................57 *Warning* Timed out waiting for response from job submission program............................57 The variables' values do not print when I run GLRLETR.....................................................57 External Program Could Not Execute Or Had An Error.......................................................58 Dynamic parameters found. Please fill in the appropriate values........................................ 58 Population Selection................................................................................................................ 59 Definitions.................................................................................................................................... 59 Validation pages..........................................................................................................................59 Related processes.......................................................................................................................60 Menu navigation table.................................................................................................................60 Population selection procedures.................................................................................................62 Definitions..............................................................................................................................62 Building a population selection.............................................................................................63 Task notes......................................................................................................................66 Copying a population selection............................................................................................ 67 Creating a population with GLBDATA..................................................................................67