http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/ en Copyright 2009 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:54:30 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss First, AIS would like to thank the campus community for their patience and understanding while we work to increase the number of available logins to the Datatel Colleague system. We've noticed a marked dropoff in sessions left running which has made a nice impact to performance. Thank you! http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/11/informer_beta_and_session_upda.html http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/11/informer_beta_and_session_upda.html AIS Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:54:30 -0500 Informer web reporting system to administration and faculty since 2006 to allow easy access to the data you need from the college's administrative database. While the current version has remained very popular, we've been excited to start initial work on a new server running the latest version (new in 2009) that promises an improved interface and new features.]]> http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/11/informer_upgrade_ahead.html http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/11/informer_upgrade_ahead.html AIS Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:54:43 -0500 During registration, which lasts until about December 4, please limit the number of Datatel sessions you use. We reached our Unidata License Limit today at about 1:15pm. The critical times are 8-9am and 1-2pm. When you are done with a Datatel session, please log off. http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/11/please_limit_your_number_of_se.html http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/11/please_limit_your_number_of_se.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:45:01 -0500 During registration, which lasts until about December 4, please limit the number of Datatel sessions you use. We reached our Unidata License Limit today at about 1:15pm. The critical times are 8-9am and 1-2pm. When you are done with a Datatel session, please log off. http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/11/please_limit_your_number_of_se_1.html http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/11/please_limit_your_number_of_se_1.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:45:01 -0500 Datatel User's Group conference on the 6th, 7th, and 8th of April. We'll be joined by a record eight other Allegheny users to learn about best business practices and ways we can make Allegheny more efficient and the administration better at what they do. Todd Fox from the Development office helps plan the Advancement portion of the DUG conference and is a presenter and panelist at the conference. Rich is a key coordinator for the regional PADUG and conference, held this year in September at Hershey. In addition Jason and Jason Andracki from Admissions office will be first-time presenters at this year's DUG. For more information about DUG, Datatel consulting, or the annual PADUG conference contact a member of the AIS team.]]> http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/04/ais_at_datatel_users_group_con.html http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/04/ais_at_datatel_users_group_con.html AIS Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:07:54 -0500 WebAdvisor and Informer will be unaffected by this shutdown and will remain available for campus use throughout the conversion. Benefactor will become unavailable prior to the start of conversion. After conversion, use of Benefactor will be replaced by screens in Colleague (r18-production). For additional questions or details regarding Benefactor and the new Colleague Advancement module, please contact the Development office. ]]> http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/03/colleague_advancement_conversion_-_date_set.html http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/03/colleague_advancement_conversion_-_date_set.html Datatel Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:03:25 -0500 TNS is performing routine maintenance on the Informer report server that will involve it being offline over lunch today. (Roughly between 12 and 1.) No changes are being made to the system. http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/03/informer_server_maintenance_to.html http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/03/informer_server_maintenance_to.html AIS Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:59:27 -0500 All problems from Sunday have been corrected. Everything should be working normally now. Thank you for your patience. http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/02/all_problems_resolved.html http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/02/all_problems_resolved.html Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:06:08 -0500 One of the listeners affected by Sunday's problem during system maintenance is still unable to start. This will not affect most users, but the Ben/GL interface is not working. Some other processes mail not work until this issue is resolved. AIS is in contact with Datatel to get the problem resolved. http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/02/some_problem_remain_from_sunda.html http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/02/some_problem_remain_from_sunda.html Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:47:21 -0500 AIS has resolved the problem and both Datatel and WebAdvisor are available again. http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/02/datatel_and_webadvisor_availab.html http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/02/datatel_and_webadvisor_availab.html Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:42:46 -0500 While performing maintenance at about 9:15 on Sunday morning a problem occurred with the Datatel system causing the production environment, including WebAdvisor, to become unavialable. The problem has been reported to Datatel. Unfortunately, software support is not available over the weekend so this will be resolved as soon as possible Monday morning. http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/02/datatel_system_including_webad.html http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/02/datatel_system_including_webad.html Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:42:02 -0500 The problem reported with XREL not being accessible has been fixed. Please begin using XREL to help resolve privacy concerns. http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/02/xrel_screen_available.html http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/02/xrel_screen_available.html Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:16:46 -0500 The problem with entering multiple line in the Comment field of the APRs on WebAdvisor has been fixed as of this morning. http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/02/apr_comment_field_corrected.html http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/02/apr_comment_field_corrected.html Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:02:42 -0500 The count day adjustments are completed and Colleague is back up and running. It's ok to start using Colleague for your day to day operations. As a reminder for those who may discover any required changes involving the count, these changes must be recorded in both the live account and also in the colred account. http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/01/count_day_success.html http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/01/count_day_success.html Datatel Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:48:55 -0500 Wednesday, January 28th is Count Day for this semester. As with other previous Count Days, we use this day to get all the registration/billing/housing information in sync. As part of this procedure we must close down Datatel's Colleague for a few hours while all the offices do their last minute fine tuning of the data. So please be ready to signoff of Colleague at noon on Wednesday. If all goes well with the count procedures, Colleague will be back up by Thursday morning. Benefactor, WebAdvisor and Informer users do not have to sign off and may continue to those systems throughout the day. http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/01/semiannual_count_day.html http://ais.allegheny.edu/newsblog/2009/01/semiannual_count_day.html Datatel Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:45:49 -0500