Viewing and manipulating the control desk extract results

A control desk allows you to extract and view selected data items. Some control desks also allow you to pass these data items on to another SunSystems functions, for example to print them.

When you run the control desk extract, the selected data items appear on the display form nominated for the control desk. The type of form that appears depends on the type of data being extracted by the control desk. For example, the transactions you extract when you run many of the standard Financials inquiries are displayed on the Financials Account Inquiry control desk.

Depending on how the control desk filter has been defined, you can perform the following actions on the extracted data:

resequence the data on display based on selected column(s).
if summary details have been set up for the filter, you can Implode the data to summarize it up to the next summary level, or if the data displayed is already summarized, you can Explode it to display the data in its detailed, presummarized format.
drill down to further details associated with a selected line being displayed, depending on the drill associations set up for the functions using Drill Association Designer (DAD).

Note: It may be possible to drill around to other linked data which would result in the launching of a new control desk, in a new session.

Select data items and pass them onto another batch process.

At any time you can choose to refresh or print the results of the control desk extract.