xReporter Tutorial
Online: November 2005
Last Updated: July 2007
xReporter may be accessed by clicking here.
There is also a direct link from the main page of the Nanofab website.
At the welcome screen, please enter your login information (Figure 1). The system will allow you to log
on using either your NIST domain account or your NIST email account. It is not necessary to specify which account
you are using. Once you have entered this information, press "Submit query" to log in to the system.
NOTE: xReporter issues a ticket to each user upon login. If your ticket expires during your session,
you may get an error message when attempting to view the login page. Should this occur, please take a direct
link back to the login page to ensure that a new ticket is issued.
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Figure 1: xReporter login screen
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After successfully logging in, you will be asked to choose a datasource. At the moment, the only system
linked to the xReporter report generating system is Coral. Please click on the word "Coral" to advance
to a list of reports (Figure 2).
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Figure 2: List of all available datasources
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III. Running a report
Once a datasource has been chosen, a list of all available reports will be presented (Figure 3).
Click on the name of the report to enter input parameters and generate data.
Note: Certain reports require special privileges (e.g. staff, admin) to be run. If you do not
have the correct permissions to run a certain report then it simply will not appear.
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Figure 3: List of all available reports
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Example: Select the report "My Accounting". On the parameters scren, enter a date for the
beginning of the report (Figure 4). To finalize this report, click "Submit Query".
Note: Only parameters followed with an asterick (*) are required.
Note: Accounting reports must be run with their beginning and ending dates falling on
the first of the month. For example, 11/1/05 is acceptable, but 11/30/05 is not.
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Figure 4: Specifying report parameters
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After a report has been run, the data will be displayed as a list of records. The controls for converting this
data into other formats are found on the left side of the page under the heading Complete output of this report
in another format (Figure 5).
For XML, Excel, and .pdf output simply click on the link beside the file icon. For text output, select the
appropriate encoding, line separator, separation character, and titles option. Click on the button which says Get Text.
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Figure 5: Report results for ’My Accounting’
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Example: Data converted into Excel spreadsheet (Figure 6).
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Figure 6: Data converted to Excel spreadsheet
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Example: Data converted into Adobe .pdf format (Figure 7).
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Figure 7: Data converted to Adobe PDF format
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Contact:
nanofab@nist.gov
Online: November 2005
Last Updated: July 2007
This page is for NIST Staff only!
