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Creating Combination Reports with Campus
Limitations with Campus
Campus is a flat file database divided up into silos.
Each department has their own silo: We use the Career Services Tab.
Report creation is difficult with Campus because it is not relational and data within one silo cannot talk
to data in another. For example, we cannot run canned reports that ‘relate’ data from the Activity
section to the Career Services or Academic section.
We have customized our reports by running independent filters and creating unique Excel spreadsheets
to display the data we need.
Seeker Criteria
To be labeled a Seeker a student/graduate must complete 3 seminars and get their resume approved.
Input Errors that cause discrepancies:
1. A student is Approved by the CS, has completed all seminars, but CS does not
change the Placement Status to ‘Seeker’.
2. CS changes the Placement Status to Seeker, but did not ‘Approve’ the resume.
In this case a CS mistakenly selects the Resume Reviewed Activity.
3. CS approves the resume, changes Placement Status to Seeker, but student has
not completed all seminars.
Remedies
Scenarios 1 and 2 can be corrected by running the new Seminar report, Activity report (Resume
Approved), and creating a combined excel report. (See steps below).
Scenario 3 is harder to detect. First, check to see if a resume exists on the network and write down the
Creation Date of the document. Compare this date to the latest Activity in the students’ record. If the
dates are the same or close, it is likely that the CS approved the resume, but selected a ‘Resume
Reviewed’ activity by mistake. That Activity can be Edited and changed to the appropriate status.
Steps to Create an Excel spreadsheet that contains Seminar and Activity data.
1. Run the Career Seminar Report.
2. The Report dialog box is displayed.
3. Select and then click on

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4. Campus will display the results in the Report Viewer.
5. Save the report to Excel.
6. The Campus – Report Viewer will display the Excel worksheet. A modified version appears here:
The report provides a list of all students / graduates who have completed all three seminars. This
criterion was selected above. At this point, we do not know who all the Seekers are, because we cannot
identify those who had their resume approved on this report. Before we move to the next step, we
must Save the report in Excel.
7. Click on the arrow in the top left hand corner to highlight the worksheet.
8. Then, open Excel. Right click and copy this worksheet. Paste it in a new document in Excel and
Save the file.

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Part ll – Append the Worksheet
9. Run the Activity Report – Resume Approved’
The Activity Selection Report from is displayed below with the correct fields selected:
a. Left Column - Category = Activity
b. Middle Column - Activity = CS-Resume Approved
c. Right Column - Date Completed: From: 4/30/2011 – 1/31/2014
10. Click on the button to display the report in the Report Viewer.
11. Click Yes on the Tip Message and the report form will appear:

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12. Save the report to Excel.
13. The Campus – Report Viewer will display the Excel worksheet. A modified version appears here:
The only columns that are required are G and N.
14. Paste Row N – Name, in Column A. Paste Row G – Activity Type (Resume Approved), in Column
B.
15. Highlight Columns A and B. Now, append them to the bottom of the original Excel file where
you saved the Seminar Report.
16. The combined report will look similar to this one:
17. Save the file.
18. Re-sort the Name column to place all Names in Alpha order.
To identify seekers, you will need to find duplicate names.
19. From the Home Menu, click on the Conditional Formatting tab.

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20. Select at the bottom of the right column.
21. The following dialog box will appear:
22. Select OK. Your report will display duplicate with the highlight color. The duplicate names are
your Seekers. The rows in black and white may not be seekers and must be checked individually
in Campus.

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23. First, check the network to see if a resume exists for that student / graduate. If you cannot find a
resume, that person cannot be a Seeker.
24. If a resume exists, and it is recent, check the Activity screen to find a Resume Approved or
Resume Reviewed Activity. If you find a RR with the same creation date as the resume; that
student is a Seeker. Change their Placement Status to Seeker; also Edit the Activity – change it
from RR to RA.
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