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Custom Report Templates and File Types

July 23, 2012

In this post, I want to discuss the relationship between custom report templates and VTA report file types. You may recall from my previous post on VTA Report File Types that some file types bypass the report form and work…

Schedule & Session Summary Reports by Instructor

June 25, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

Administrator, How To, Reports

While you’ve had the ability to run a Scheduled Sessions or Session History report by Instructor for a long time in VTA to show the sessions scheduled for or taught by a particular instructor, you’ve never had an easy way…

How To Run a No Show Report

June 15, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

Administrator, How To, Reports

Looking for a report on No Shows or Cancellations? The Course History report on the Course Reports menu is the one for you! From time to time, we get asked if there is way to generated a No Shows report. …

Controlling Date Formats in VTA

June 14, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

VTA

Introduction VTA manages a host of dates; job title dates, session dates, requirement due dates, etc. Administrators select session dates when scheduling or entering history sessions and students are exposed to these dates when browsing Learner and in email notices.…

Improvements to the Enforcement of Employee Restrictions in v6.3

June 6, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

Administrator, General, How To

Employee Restrictions have been around for some time in VTA. They have been used to limit an administrator’s ability to edit or enroll to a specific group of students. However, those restrictions were not applied to other areas of the…

Using Options on the New Grids in v6.3

June 6, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

General, How To

This is part 3 of a three-part article on the new grids in v6.3. For an overview of new grid features see Part 1 of this article. A new Options section has been added to many of the main data…

Exploring New Grid Filters in v6.3

June 4, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

General, How To

This is part 2 of a three-part article discussing the new grids in v6.3. To see Part 1 of this article, click here. There were filters on some grids in previous versions of VTA Backoffice, but version 6.3 takes grid filtering…

New Grids in v6.3

May 30, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

General

This is part 1 of a three part article on the new grids in v6.3. In VTA Backoffice version 6.3, we have re-engineered the main data grids in the system. This was primarily done to improve performance. However, in addition…

Find Instructor Report in v6.3

May 25, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

Data Cleanup, Reports

In version 6.3, we’ve added a new Find Instructor report that lists the courses for which the selected person is assigned as an instructor in VTA Administrator. This report allows the selection of the person to include in the report…

Vendor and External Instructor changes in v6.3

May 24, 2012

Duncan Welder IV

Administrator, Data Cleanup, How To

Understanding Vendors, External Instructors and Course Instructors All external instructors are associated to a vendor in VTA. Once an external instructor has been added to a vendor, that external instructor can be added to any number of courses as an…

Posts by Duncan Welder IV

Custom Report Templates and File Types

Schedule & Session Summary Reports by Instructor

How To Run a No Show Report

Controlling Date Formats in VTA

Improvements to the Enforcement of Employee Restrictions in v6.3

Using Options on the New Grids in v6.3

Exploring New Grid Filters in v6.3

New Grids in v6.3

Find Instructor Report in v6.3

Vendor and External Instructor changes in v6.3

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