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DevonWay University - DevonWay

Written by DevonWay | August 30, 2017

Note: All courses are 1 full day.

1000 — DevonWay User

All DevonWay deployments feature a standard dashboard, search functionality, and reporting and notification capabilities. These courses focus on these features, ensuring users understand how to find and report on the information important to them.

  • Course 1010 – User: Dashboard, Searching, and Reporting
    • Run searches against the in-memory database using keywords, field-specific criteria, or both
    • Filter by dates, numbers, statuses, assignees, and other attributes
    • Display your results in List, Grid, or Calendar view
    • Edit multiple items at once
    • Export to Excel, PDF, or Zip
    • Create ad hoc charts, reports, and pivot tables
    • Share your searches and reports with others
    • Customize and publish live tiles on your dashboard
    • Create notifications to email your results using schedules and triggers you specify
    • Course level: Beginner
  • Course 1020 – User: Advanced Business Intelligence
    • Build complex reports based on your data (please be prepared with any reports you want to create)
    • Set up chart attributes and custom filter expressions
    • Report on child-level data
    • Customize chart colors, labels, backgrounds, and other attributes
    • Course level: Advanced
  • Course 1021 – User: BI Calculated Fields and Measures
    • Learn the difference between a calculated field and a calculated measure
    • Understand the various types of functions involved (Case, If, Concatenate, Elapsed Days)
    • Implement calculated fields and measures
    • Course level: Advanced
  • Course 1030 – User: Trending
    • Learn what the various types of trend profiles are
    • Create trend profiles
    • Create trend reports
    • Set up notifications to automatically send trend reports
    • Course level: Intermediate

2000 — DevonWay Administrator

DevonWay Administrators are key to successful deployments. Administrators manage users, teams, shared tiles, and are sought after experts within their organization for front-line support. The following courses focus on enhancing skills fundamental to the administration of DevonWay applications.

  • Course 2010 – Administrator: Fundamentals
    • Manage persons and teams
    • Define an organizational hierarchy for your data
    • Publish tiles to groups of users
    • Customize your login page and other environmental preferences
    • Implement security features like minimum password requirements and session timeouts
    • Use SQL to export data to Excel
    • Import data from spreadsheets
    • File bugs and enhancement ideas using TrakWay
    • Course level: Intermediate
  • Course 2020 – Administrator: Partnering with DevonWay
    • Understand how the DevonWay platform can be configured to meet your company’s current and long-term needs
    • Gain insight into DevonWay’s current and future capabilities
    • Learn about DevonWay design decisions, SQA process, and best practices
    • Learn how to take advantage of training documentation and support
    • Course level: Intermediate

3000 — Module Administration (YourWay)

To maintain and enhance your DevonWay applications, we offer the following courses to teach administrators how to make simple modifications to YourWay modules.

  • Course 3010 – Module Builder: Application/Module Basics
    • Gain a high-level understanding of the various components of a module
    • Understand how modules interact and share information
    • Learn the capabilities of Module Builder
    • Learn how to gather the requirements necessary to build a module
    • Course level: Intermediate to Advanced
  • Course 3020 – Module Builder: No-Coding-Required Changes
    • Learn how to make minor modifications to hover help, field labels, instructions, messages, and field search properties
    • Learn about the use of Build, Test, and UAT
    • Course level: Intermediate to Advanced

4000 — Module Development (YourWay)

These courses have been created for the more technically advanced administrators that are interested in developing their own rules-driven, workflow-aware solutions using YourWay. In addition to administrators, this course could also be attended by customer IT professionals skilled in application development. A Module Developer license is required when user-designed modules are used in production.

  • Course 4010 – Module Developer: Fundamentals
    • Learn the process of developing and updating modules
    • Understand how to use reference fields and the search index
    • Understand the different administrative screens, roles, reporting authorities, and troubleshooting tools
    • Course level: Advanced
  • Course 4020 – Module Developer: Advanced Topics
    • Learn best practices for using Build, Test, UAT, and importing and exporting modules
    • Gain an understanding of advanced module behaviors such as batch processing, calculation options, and dashboard nodes.
    • Learn about the various types of interfaces and how to configure them
    • Course level: Advanced

Pricing

The $895 per student, per day cost includes facility expenses, lunch, and DevonWay travel and expenses within the United States.

Group Discounts

  • 2 students: 10%
  • 3 – 5 students: 20%
  • 6 – 10 students: 30%
  • 11 – 20 students: 40%

All DevonWay University courses are also available via Virtual Classroom or On-Site.