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Advanced Analysis Topic Development

Advanced Analysis Topic development needs to be structured and logical.

You need to have a skeleton idea from which to work, from which you can build a quality Advanced Analysis Topic that will work efficiently and effectively.

Before you start to write a Topic, it is advisable to spend time thinking through your specifications and ensuring that you have clearly outlined your goals and future objectives for your new Advanced Analysis.

Topic Development Steps 1 - 10

  1. Design of the Advanced Analysis - profiles and individual views

  2. Creation of a data dictionary: ##.AA.rawXX.dd where ##is the company number, normally 00 and XX is the Topic code.

  3. Creation of an afile and ifld

  4. File utility creation of raw data file: ##.AA.rawXX

  5. Generate AA/IFLDS and Generate Combined Databases

  6. Development of the Topic with up to eight profiles, using rawfields from ##.AA.rawXX

  7. Generate the Advanced Analysis environment

  8. Writing and running of a Report Generator Update Report to select and manipulate the data and update the raw data file ##.AA.rawXX

  9. Process raw data for the Topic

  10. Generate Topic's individual drill-down views

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