Create Custom Printable Documents and Reports

Anthology Student includes:

Printable documents (such as award letters)
Predefined reports from the Reports tile

Your institution can also create custom printable documents and reports. For example, you can create award letters for different campuses that you can then select when you print an award letter for a student.

Determine the Method to Use to Create Custom Reports

Anthology Student has more than one option for creating custom reports. You can create reports:

In Anthology Student
Outside of Anthology Student using components of SSRS

Where Done	Method and Where Displayed	Prerequisites	Data Available	How Access to the Report is Controlled	Supported Export Formats
In Anthology Student	Views Explorer (Select the Views tile > Explore Views tile.)	You must have Views - Module Data authorization for the type of data in the view. For example, to access views that contain: Financial aid data, you must have Views - Financial Aid Data authorization Admissions data, you must have Views - Admissions Data authorization	Data and fields that you have been authorized to view.	Any staff member who is authorized to access the folder where the view is saved in Views Explorer can access the report.	Excel PDF Query URL that is a direct link to the query and all the data in the view that can be used in an application that supports OData (such as Microsoft Excel)
Outside of Anthology Student using components of SSRS	Reports list (Select the Reports tile.)	You must have: Access to the Anthology Student database Access to your Microsoft Reporting Services web portal Permissions to work with the Reporting Services web portal and Report Builder components of SSRS	All the data and fields in the Anthology Student database.	Any staff member who is authorized to access the folder where the report is saved on the report server can display the report in the folder in Anthology Student	Word Excel PowerPoint PDF TIFF MHTML (web archive) CSV XML file Data Feed

Where Done

Method and Where Displayed

Prerequisites

Data Available

How Access to the Report is Controlled

Supported Export Formats

In Anthology Student

Views Explorer (Select the Views tile > Explore Views tile.)

You must have Views - Module Data authorization for the type of data in the view. For example, to access views that contain:

Financial aid data, you must have Views - Financial Aid Data authorization
Admissions data, you must have Views - Admissions Data authorization

Data and fields that you have been authorized to view.

Any staff member who is authorized to access the folder where the view is saved in Views Explorer can access the report.

Excel
PDF
Query URL that is a direct link to the query and all the data in the view that can be used in an application that supports OData (such as Microsoft Excel)

Outside of Anthology Student using components of SSRS

Reports list (Select the Reports tile.)

You must have:

Access to the Anthology Student database
Access to your Microsoft Reporting Services web portal
Permissions to work with the Reporting Services web portal and Report Builder components of SSRS

All the data and fields in the Anthology Student database.

Any staff member who is authorized to access the folder where the report is saved on the report server can display the report in the folder in Anthology Student

Word
Excel
PowerPoint
PDF
TIFF
MHTML (web archive)
CSV
XML file
Data Feed

Locate Additional Information for Custom Reports

Method	Additional Information
In Anthology Student using Views Explorer	Create a View Specify the Data Displayed in a View
Outside of Anthology Student using components of SSRS	For more information, refer to Background for Reports and Other Printable Documents.