Application Development

Benjamin Wilbur has been hired as programmer analyst to join the Application Development team starting June 1st, 2009. Benjamin will be supporting the admissions and financial aid modules and reporting in Datatel, system support for the AdAstra facilities scheduling software, and interfaces to other systems.

The Google Search Appliance (find.luther.edu) is now configured to index documents and sites in Norse Apps that are shared with the public. For instance, if you search for “kiva” you now receive results from https://sites.google.com/a/luther.edu/kiva/.

LIS and Dining Services are pleased to announce a new service allowing students and staff to check their Luther ID card activity.

NorseCard.luther.edu allows students to check their meal plan
balances, Dining Dollars, and NordicCash balances. Students no longer need to contact Dining Services to check their balances.

To use the NorseCard.luther.edu website, use your NorseKey username and password to access your NorseCard account information. If you need assistance, please contact the LIS Help Desk.

Datatel.luther.edu web interface will provide Mac or PC users with the same access to all information, reports, and screens that you use on your desktop application or icon.
Off-campus availability to datatel.luther.edu is limited to college-owned laptops with the VPN Client installed. With this new mobility, it is especially important not to share your Datatel password and logout of your session and web browser. Visit http://lis.luther.edu/learn/datatelwebfaq for more information.

We have set up a process for Financial Services to start issuing electronic payments to vendors instead of sending paper checks.

This is standard functionality provided by Datatel. The Financial Services office will work with vendors to set up bank routing and account information for the vendors’ accounts. Once the accounts are “pre-noted” and confirmed, Luther can issue electronic payments to the vendors and eliminate the need for some of our paper checks.

Student registration starts tonight and continues on the following schedule. Please refrain from running any Datatel processes that use significant computing resources during these times to insure that our students get the fastest response times possible.

Wednesday, April 15th
Thursday, April 16th

Tuesday, April 21st
Wednesday, April 22nd
Thursday, April 23rd

Registration times will begin at 5:30 and end at 10:30 p.m.

Please report any problems to the help desk at x1000 or helpdesk@luther.edu

I attended the Datatel Users Group conference on April 5-8. Following is a summary of the highlights from the conference:

1) IT trends and futures – Datatel is developing a new web-based user interface that will be called “User Interface 4.0”. Luther has joined the first client trial to test new functionality and provide early feedback to Datatel. We’ll be installing this within the next few weeks and hope to allow some end users to help us with the testing.

Datatel is requiring a User Interface upgrade (UI23). This morning the required patches were installed into coll18production and benlive. The new patches will force an alert (attached) which may ellict a call to the helpdesk. To help avoid this, the following email was sent to all Datatel users.

Hello Windows* Datatel Users,

__Last night Application Development installed patches into Coll18Production and BenLive that require a new version Datatel UI Desktop (UI 2.3).

The new Forgot My Norse Key site went live this morning. When users change their Norse Key, they now will be asked to complete several personal questions. If they forget their password in the future, they will be able to reset their password with this new site. This site is active for Students, Staff, Faculty and Alumni.

Starting Monday March 23rd, a CBORD technician will be at Luther for four days to upgrade our Micros server and cash register software. On Monday Oneota Market will close at 2pm. The Print Shop will manually record transactions for later entry from 2pm Monday to mid-morning on Tuesday.

The server and one register in Oneota will have it’s software updated on Monday. On Tuesday the Print Shop, the rest of Oneota, Marty’s should be updated. On Wednesday the Peace Dining, C-Store, Sunnyside Cafe, and manager’s workstation should be upgraded.