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Data and Reporting Fundamentals - Activity Instructions

Updated over 2 months ago

Session Objectives

The purpose of this session is to guide you through exporting data from GEMS with the Advanced Search tool and Sample Reports.


By the end of this session, you will be able to...

  • Use the Advanced Search to generate spreadsheets of your data

  • Run Sample Reports to export your data


Task 1: Export a spreadsheet

Export an Excel spreadsheet showing…

  • all our Business Entities,

  • their Status fields,

  • and all their appointees.

Can you filter these results to only return current Business Entities?


Task 2: Filter an Advanced Search

Export an Excel spreadsheet showing…

  • All our Business Entities,

  • Their Status fields,

  • And only their current appointees

Is there another way you could have returned the current appointees?


Task 3: Bring in additional entities' data

Export an Excel spreadsheet showing…

  • All our Business Entities,

  • Their Status fields,

  • Their current appointees

  • Their current appointees’ addresses

Can you filter these results to only return the appointees’ service addresses?


Task 4: Save your Advanced Search

Save the Search you’ve been working with the following properties…

  • Name: [YourName] Training Search

  • Make it available to all users

  • Add it as a Favorite

  • Make sure it can be used in the Reporting Module

  • After you save the Search: log out and re-open it!

What do the Default and Jurisdiction options do? Experiment to find out.


Task 5: Run a Sample Report

  • Use the Find a Report tile to export a report containing all Business Entities and their current appointees.

Find a second report that also show Business Entities and their appointees. What's the difference between the two reports?

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