Task Summary

You can use this report to display the summary of Contact Manager tasks.

If you frequently generate reports with the same selection criteria, you can save the selection criteria under a name. This makes it easier to generate reports in the future with the same selection criteria.

Prerequisites

You must have: 

  • Common - Reports - View authorization

  • Either Reports - Contact Manager - Task Summary or Contact Manager - All Reports authorization (All Reports provides authorization to view all reports for Contact Manager.) 

If policies are enabled, you must have permission in the policy to read the task template.

To configure the timeout duration for the Export to Excel button, your institution must have configured Export to Excel Timeout in SecondsClosed Enter the Timeout Value in seconds (0-900) for all the SSRS Export to Excel. under Settings > System > General.

Access Method

Select the Reports tile > locate Contact Manager > select Task Summary.

Procedure to Generate the Report

  1. Specify the data selection criteria.

    CampusesClosed The campus where the student or students were enrolled.

    Completed ByClosed The last and then first name of the staff member who completed the item.

    Date AddedClosed The date when the item or person was added or the status change was entered. From and To

    Date CompletedClosed The class section start and end date. From and To

    Due DateClosed The date when the item is due (such as task, document, or message). For a new task, the default is today. If you are specifying the value, specify the value in the format MM/DD/YYYY or select the calendar button to select the date. From and To

    Employers Closed The name of the contact within the organization. If you are selecting a contact in a list, it contains the contacts configured for your institution. If your institution uses the Contact Type/Activities Security to limit access to contacts (Setup > Career Services), the list only contains the contacts you are authorized to select.

    Event TypesClosed The type of event associated with the task. Events are defined by the system and are selected for task templates when they are configured by your institution.

    Include Details with no Associated Campus or StudentClosed Indicates that you want to include tasks that do not have any associated campus or student.

    Load Saved CriteriaClosed Select the required saved criteria that you want to load in the selection criteria fields.

    Previous OwnerClosed The previous owner of the task.

    PrioritiesClosed The priority of the task. The options are Low, Normal, and High. The default is Normal.

    Prospect TypesClosed The type of prospect. The values are configured by your institution. They are categories that classify your prospects according to any grouping your institution might find useful. For example, you can classify prospect sources into groups to analyze market effectiveness and determine the category of prospect sources that generates most prospects.

    StaffClosed The last name and first name of the staff member.

    Staff GroupsClosed Group containing staff members in an institution. Typically, the groups are based on departments and job functions. Administrators can use staff groups to assign or revoke access privileges to all the members in the staff group.

    Student ID to PrintClosed Specifies the ID that is printed. The values are Student Number, Enrollment Number, and None.

    Student StatusesClosed Specifies the status of the prospect or student at your institution. Statuses vary by institution. They are configured by your institution. If you change the status for a student, a dialog is displayed so that you can confirm the change. If there are also tasks associated with the previous status, Anthology Student displays a dialog that you can use to select the tasks to keep and the tasks to close with the result of canceled.

    Task CategoriesClosed Categories your institution can use to organize task types. They are configured by your institution and can be associated with task types.

  1. Take the appropriate action.

    Task Action to Take
    View the report

    1.  Select the View Report button. Anthology Student displays the generated report.
    Export the report

    1.  Select the Export to Excel button. Anthology Student displays the Export Report Data dialog box.

    2.  Review, specify, or change the following value.

    Export File NameClosed The name of the exported file.

    3.  Select the Export button.

    Anthology Student exports the generated report as a CSV file which may be viewed in Excel. In some cases, the exported file will contain additional data not displayed in the report on your screen.

    Note: If you entered special characters like *, -, !, (, or ) in the report fields, Anthology Student automatically prepends an apostrophe to those field values upon export to Excel or CSV. The apostrophe is added to reduce vulnerability, as these characters are perceived by Excel as an actionable formula. Once the report is exported to Excel, Anthology suggests using find and replace on the characters only if necessary to restore original values.
    Save the selection criteria

    1.  Select the Save Criteria button. Anthology Student displays the Save Criteria dialog box.

    2.  Specify the name to save the criteria.

    3.  Select the Save button. Anthology Student saves the selection criteria for the report.
    Delete the selection criteria

    1.  Select the Delete Saved Criteria button. Anthology Student displays the Delete Criteria dialog box.

    2.  Select the Delete button. Anthology Student deletes the selected saved criteria for the report.

You can also save to a student group. For more information, see Create or Update a Student Group Using a Report.

Details for the Report

In the report:

  • Students are displayed and sorted alphabetically by name

  • Related tasks are displayed for each student