Automated Report Update and Display

system · April 12, 2014, 8:41am

You could use a dashboard that auto displays, in terms of your other statistics you could just add those into the dashboard tracker view

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On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 5:22 PM, <jim_rogers@...> wrote:

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  <p>I&#39;ve done something along those lines where management wanted to see weekly, monthly and YTD totals for orders and shipments. I wrote a SQL view that calculates those numbers and then linked an external BAQ to that view. Now we have a dashboard with auto-refresh that gives those numbers in a realtime fashion.<br>

This could be extended to get the numbes out to a powerpoint or other media.

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system · April 11, 2014, 4:33pm

I may be asking a very easy to answer question here, so bear with me if this a very simple task.

I have a BAQ written that will provide the total sales dollars put into our shipping department by date range. It's a pretty simple query. I want to automatically update that total every hour for each day and have that total displayed on a separate monitor. Ideally, I would like that $ value to dump into a Powerpoint presentation so it could be displayed alongside our safety statistics and other pertinent information.

Is there a way to do that or can somebody point me in the right direction?

Thank you.

system · April 11, 2014, 4:57pm

You could use the Business Activity Query Export Process to export the query on a schedule to a file and then have your Powerpoint "pull" in the value from the file. I was thinking about doing the same thing but never go around to actually implementing it.

Steven G.

On Friday, April 11, 2014 4:48 PM, "aarondaane@..." <aarondaane@...> wrote:

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  <div>I may be asking a very easy to answer question here, so bear with me if this a very simple task.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>I have a BAQ written that will provide the total sales dollars put into our shipping department by date range. &nbsp;It&#39;s a pretty simple query. &nbsp;I want to automatically update that total every hour for each day and have that total displayed on a separate monitor. &nbsp;Ideally, I would like that $ value to dump into a Powerpoint presentation so it could be displayed alongside our safety statistics and other pertinent information. &nbsp;</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Is there a way to do that or can somebody point me in the right direction?</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Thank you.&nbsp;</div>

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system · April 11, 2014, 5:22pm

I've done something along those lines where management wanted to see weekly, monthly and YTD totals for orders and shipments. I wrote a SQL view that calculates those numbers and then linked an external BAQ to that view. Now we have a dashboard with auto-refresh that gives those numbers in a realtime fashion.

This could be extended to get the numbes out to a powerpoint or other media.