Manipulating Report Properties in Microsoft Excel

If you wanted to further manipulate your data using particular properties, these properties could be included in your report, and separated by a special character.  Since certain characters are fairly common and may appear in other places in your report, you may wish to use a special character that is seldom used (i.e., ~).  

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If sorted by Task, your generated Qualification Report would look very similar to the one below.

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At this point, you could export your results to Microsoft Excel using the but_export.png Export button.  The Export dialog appears.

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The resultant report will look like this:

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Microsoft Excel contains a function that allows you to separate the contents of a cell based on a special character.  This function is found under Data/ Text to Columns from the main menu.  

Before doing so, insert a column to the right of the Employee Name field.  

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Select Data/ Text to Columns from the main menu.

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The corresponding wizard appears.

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Select Delimited and click Next.

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Deselect Tab, select Other, and enter the tilde character (~).  Click Next and Finish.

Your property value will be moved to the adjacent field, and can then be used as a sort field in Excel.  With a few more adjustments to this spreadsheets, using the Data/ Sort by Rank column, you could see if the Rank of an Employee affects whether or not they are complete on Tasks.  

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In this case, Probationary Fire Fighters tend to have more completions on the selected Tasks than Fire Fighters and Senior Fire Fighters do.

 

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