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Safari Tools
Rich Hinz – Technology Training Officer
Michael Quiner – Director for Administrative Technology
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Safari – So Goodie !
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What is Safari?
Safari Administrator
Safari Report Writer
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What is Safari Administrator?
Set Security Access
Create Groups
Create Users
Create Views
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Users and GroupsIn Safari Administrator
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What is a View?
A subset of fields from a file
View field names can be anythingMust be SQL compliant
BUT…Users will eventually learn colleague names
Users might get confused
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View CreationIn Colleague – was VWBR now RUVB
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View CreationIn Safari Administrator
SQL’ize files with METP
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View CreationIn Safari Administrator
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What is Safari Report Writer?
A Report Building Utility
Uses Views Created in Colleague OR
Created in Safari Administrator (Preferred)
Uses ODBC and SQL’ized file
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Report CreationIn Safari Report Writer
Select View to Use
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Report CreationIn Safari Report Writer
Select Fields
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Report CreationIn Safari Report Writer
Select grouping
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Report CreationIn Safari Report Writer
Select sort options
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Report CreationIn Safari Report Writer
Report Layout
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Report CreationIn Safari Report Writer
Report output
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When should we use the RUVB process to create a native database view and when should we use Safari Administrator to create a Safari
view?
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Previously known as SureView, the Reporting Utilities module’s focus is to assist Datatel Clients in the translation of data from Colleague into distributed information for SQL-based reporting, including ODBC access.
What Happened to SureView?
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SureView to RU
07/31/2001 – End of Programming Support
10/31/2001 – End of Full Tech Support
12/31/2001 – End of Limited Tech Support
06/01/2001 – Start of Annoying Attitude
“ Both SureView and RU can be used, but it is not recommended!”
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RU FunctionsSet up parameters and dictionaries for UniData SQL-based reporting.
Load table and view definitions, including all relevant metadata, to the Safari dictionary.
Specify and generate database SQL Views. ?• Optionally create new files as snapshots of data at
a point in time, based on View specifications. • Other utilities to support using read-only SQL-
based products to retrieve data from your UniData database.
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Expanded RU Menu
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Expanded RU Menu
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RU Enhancements
Moved utilities from TOOL to the UT.
All Envision applications and the Colleague run-time CDD to feed metadata for SQL-based views.
(Great DVF/PFDE vrs. RDVF Debate )
Load Safari automatically based on a parameter.
Load multiple Safari RECORDS to logically normalize the data for use in Safari Views.
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Expanded RU Menu
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RU Enhancements
Remove the restriction to require those using RU to be logged in as "datatel”.
Better performance with SQL-based reporting against the UniData database, including STAR joins.
Moved utilities from TOOL to the UT.
All Envision applications and the Colleague run-time CDD to feed metadata for SQL-based views.
(Great DVF/PFDE vrs. RDVF Debate )
Load Safari automatically based on a parameter.
Load multiple Safari RECORDS to logically normalize the data for use in Safari Views.
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Expanded RU Menu
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MEVS to Export to RU
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Questions ?? Safari - So Longie !!