Advanced Focus Reporting Course

Course Code: FC 21
Course Abstract: The Advanced FOCUS Reporting Class will teach the participant FOCUS internal concepts as they relate to reporting, including the two phases that comprise a typical report. By understanding these important internal concepts, the participant will learn how to write more efficient and effective reports in FOCUS. The participant will learn how to perform record selection based on subtotal and/or totals. The course will introduce prefix operators for calculating average, minimum, maximum, and other values. A major section of the course will introduce using multiple verbs in reporting, for combining summary and detail data all into one report request. Additional formatting options, including subtotaling, customized subheadings and footings, special calculations, and special reporting options will also be presented. The participant will also learn additional sorting options for reporting. The course will include the merging of multiple files together for subsequent reporting. There will also be a section on user-defined variables in reporting.
Audience: This course is intended for both the end-user and data processing professionals who have working knowledge of the operating system and system editor where they will be working with FOCUS. The participant should have completed the FOCUS Basic Reporting Class or equivalent before enrolling in this class.
Duration: 2 days
Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:
> Identify and apply the internal concepts of FOCUS reporting to write more efficient reports
> Utilize alternate file views for reporting
> Selectively retrieve data based on subtotals/totals
> Utilize prefix operators to display special values
> Write multi-verb reports, combining both summary & detail data
> Merge multiple files together for reporting
> Create user-defined variables for use in stored reports

Course Topics: Refer to Learning Outcomes
Prerequisites:

None

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