REX Fundamentals
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REX Training
What is REX?
REX is a web-based data warehouse application that is used to store and process UMBC's data resources. It provides a large library of reports to assist in analysis and decision support. REX provides accurate, timely information ensuring sound business recommendations and decisions.
REX Fundamentals - Course Overview
The purpose of this course is to provide basic REX knowledge, along with information and tools, to effectively navigate and run reports in REX.
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Below is the self-paced version of the course. This robust course allows you to learn the basics of working with REX reports and provides practice working with different features.
You can viewing the learning modules in the order they are presented on this page to work through all course material or you can simply launch the lesson(s) you are interested in learning more about.
Module 1 -Rex Report Organization
This lesson will teach you how reports are organized within REX
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Module 2 - Locating REX Reports
This lesson will teach you how to locate a REX report, open and close a report.
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Module 3 - REX Report Tabs and Filters Overview
This lesson will teach you about the Tabs and Filters that can used when viewing a report.
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Module 4 - Navigation Tab
This lesson will teach you how to use the features available within the Navigation Tab.
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Advanced Navigation Tab Features
This lesson covers the advanced features of "Drill to Detail within a Cell" and "Analyzing information in a Decomposition Tree."
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Module 5 -View Tab
This lesson will teach you how to use the features available within the View Tab.
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Module 6 - Sort Tab
This lesson will teach you how to use the features available within the Sort Tab.
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Module 7 - View Tab
This lesson will teach you how to use the features available within the View Tab
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Module 8 - Filter Tab
This lesson will teach you how to use the features available within the Filter Tab.
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Module 9 - Other Report Features
This lesson will teach you how to save, export, email REX reports. You will also learn about how to use Help.