Faculty Corporate Documents

The Business Objects Corporate Documents area provides access to pre-defined, prompt-driven reports that you can run to retrieve a standardized perspective on your data.

The following reports are available under the "FIS" category:

FIS Inquiry by PennID: After prompting the user for PennID, this query will return two reports:

• Appointment Details - returns Name, School, Department, and a listing of all appointments for that person along with appointment details.
• Text Minutes - returns Name, School and the text minutes associated with each action along with associated start, end and meeting dates.

To import reports for your own use:

Using InfoView:

The InfoView web page allows you to view the list of corporate documents in the Business Objects repository and refresh and download those documents via the web. To access the corporate documents using InfoView (Business Objects users only):

1. Point your browser to https://zinc.isc-seo.upenn.edu/wi
2. Click the blue "Log In" button. Enter your Business Objects ID and password in the User Name and Password fields that appear. Click OK to continue to the InfoView Welcome page. You should not click the "Remember my password" box, as this would allow anyone using your browser to access the Data Warehouse under your ID.
3. Click the Corporate Documents link. You may then click on a document name to view the structure and then refresh it, or download it, or edit it using Business Objects.

Using the Business Objects client software:

1. Log on to Business Objects.
2. From the File menu, click "Retrieve From", and then "Corporate Documents".
3. Click on the name of the file you'd like to retrieve, and then click the Retrieve button. You may choose whether to open the document upon retrieval.
4. Retrieved files are saved in your UserDocs directory by default. You may wish to relocate and/or rename them.