“One Picture is Worth a Thousand Words.” The phrase, often attributed to Fred Barnard after it appeared in the advertising trade journal Printer’s Ink, also applies to the visual presentation of data. While our focus is often on higher education, the above idiom...
Template designers know that Evisions FormFusion provides flexibility in the look and layout of documents. However, due to the variable nature of some Banner output (i.e. transcripts and purchase orders), versatility of data mapping and control is limited. The Project...
The decision has been made that your institution will be switching to a new reporting tool. The existing tool has been in place for years. There are a multitude of reports that work like a well-oiled machine and haven’t been touched since their creation. However, that...
If you’re just joining us, welcome to the third and final installment of our series on good Argos DataBlock design. Our first two chapters covered Planning Your Ideal DataBlock and Getting The Look Just Right. Today, I want to talk about an often-overlooked, but...
Welcome to our second installment of our Best Practices for Argos DataBlock Design series. If you were following along with our last post, you should now have everything you need to get started with the visual design of your DataBlock. There are a few aspects of the...
If you've been using Evisions' Argos Enterprise Reporting Solution, you already know what a powerful tool it can be for making sense of complicated institutional data. But what you might not know is that Argos is much more than a reporting resource. In fact, with a...
Jumping into DataBlock design can be a bit overwhelming at first. There are many objects to choose from, and many more possibilities on how to use them. To make this prospect a little less daunting, we’ve put together a series of blog posts that will walk you through...
Everyone loves a good shortcut to save time and make things more efficient, and when it comes to a complex system like Banner, sometimes we need all the help we can get. That's where APIs come in. Application Programming Interfaces allow users to access a system from...
We’ve talked before about the importance of security in protecting your organization’s data. In our most recent post on the subject, we discussed, in detail, the process of establishing good security measures within your applications. But that’s only part of the...