Tuition Distribution 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 Extract Date is the specific date of the extract. Tuition Distribution takes five (5) extracts per term for each of the three terms. Spring extracts run January to May, Summer extracts from May to September, and Fall extracts September to January. When choosing an Extract Date, please be mindful of the Term.

The following reports are available under the "Budget Office" category:

TD Summary: After prompting the user for an Extract Date and SRS Term, this query will populate several reports covering the full spectrum of Tuition Distribution. The new versions of the Course Enrollment and Registered Credit Reports, together with an Export Matrix and Home and Teaching Distributions can also be found.

TD Student Detail: After prompting the user for an Extract Date and SRS Term, this query will populate reports showing Students and Home School Distributions.

TD Course Detail: After prompting the user for an Extract Date and SRS Term, this query will populate reports showing Courses and Teaching School Distributions.

TD Faculty Detail: After prompting the user for an Extract Date and SRS Term, this query will populate reports showing Faculty, Job Title and Academic Appointment Data.

Faculty Load Report: After prompting the user for a SRS Term, this query will populate the Faculty Load Reports from the Student Data Warehouse.

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.