You’re not alone, and we can help!
We know the deadline is FAST approaching.
Please Click Here to check out a short video on how we can help simplify the transition for your end users and ease the pressure on your internal resources!
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May 22nd, 2018Brand New Training Video Playlists!
April 3rd, 2018You’ve asked for it, and we’ve delivered!
Based on your feedback and suggestions, we’re pleased to announce that we have completely overhauled the Training Video Tabs. We’ve made the Video playlists easier to navigate, easier to use and much easier to search.
Included in the latest release (as of FAST Version 4.4.04), are: curated playlists, a sophisticated Search option that looks for keywords in the Help Topic, and Video Tags that allow your end users to search for similar videos, by topic or “tag”.
Each Playlist is carefully divided by content and level to make the material more relevant to the end user and much easier to use. We have also enabled a Quick View of the video description and total length.
For more information, please email Customer Support to schedule your upgrade today! In the meantime, please Click Here to take a tour of the new Video Tabs in this short video tutorial!
Changes to Menu Access
January 12th, 2018If you’re an Administrator in FAST, then this should pique your interest!
The Menu Access form has been re-vamped and we think you’re going to love it! We’ve improved the user experience on the form by cleaning up the look of the page, adding neat sub-folders for the “child” nodes of menu headers and added an X option to quickly remove access without the need to “drag & drop” it a second time. But even more importantly, we’ve given you the ability to apply a “Cascade” option that will apply the selected role to all children on a menu.
Now this is huge! This can make the difference between grabbing that role once or twice versus 15 or more times for the very same reporting menu!
For help with this or any other Admin functionality across FAST, please don’t hesitate to inquire about custom training availability and options!
What’s New in FAST 4.4?
November 3rd, 2017With the dawn of FAST Version 4.4 (schedule your upgrade if you have not already!), we are pleased to introduce the all new FAST Notifications. No more wondering, guessing or trying to send out mass emails to your FAST user groups when updates are made to Group Pinned Reports, Group Dashboards or to notify an approver that there is a new JV that has been sent for approval!
Find all of your FAST notifications in one easy-to-find and easy-to-read panel. End users can then clear individual notifications, clear all notifications and even drill-down to the new or updated Pinned Report. This is a great way to make sure that your user community stays up to speed and in the know about all the great reports available to them.
To schedule your upgrade or add your institution to the list, please Email Customer Support today!
Last Call for IMUC Registration!
September 8th, 2017Don’t miss out on your last chance to sign up for our annual user conference! IMUC is the conference you don’t want to miss and provides so much valuable training, demo and dedicated FAST material in an intensive 2-day format. We cover Administrative material, end-user training and application-specific courses all tailored to make you a better and more informed FAST user and bring those tips, tricks and powerful new features back to your organization!
This year’s conference is being held in beautiful Whistler, BC, just North of Vancouver.
Registration is only available until September 30th and remaining space is very limited! If you’ve been thinking of attending or sending a few delegates from your organization, now is the time.
For more information on registration, travel, hotel accommodations and a detailed overview of the courses being offered, please Click Here or contact your favourite Millennium employee!
Our conference always fills up and is a guaranteed great time, so you definitely don’t want to be left out.
Are you making use of FAST dashboards?
July 11th, 2017If not, now may be the time! If you’re a fan of graphing, you want to pay attention right about now. There are some major changes brewing in the FAST Dashboarding world as of FAST 4.3.16+, so stay tuned!
FAST Dashboards allow you to create as many personalized Dashboards as you like to meet any number of reporting and workflow needs. You can then add as many different charts, graphs and grids as you need to keep track of! The beauty here is that you can keep track of your work, your way. Create charts and graphs for weekly, daily or monthly reference. Keep track of Registration, Vendor and PO Details, YTD Budget to Actuals or total spending, Admissions or Employee Leave – and make sure the data from each category is available quickly and easily! We also offer some handy new “sharing” options for your dashboards and the underlying reports.
From the dashboard, you can pop out the graph for review, you can click down to view the full details of your report, or you can even click on any individual section of your graphs (e.g. think of a delicious and colourful piece of pie in a Pie Chart or a single segment in a Bar Chart!) – and view the detailed results reflected in that sub-section of data.
Much more detail more to come, but if you’ve ever wanted to explore the wonderful worlds of Charting, Graphs and Dashboards, now may be the time! We are also offering some dedicated training programs to walk you through the essentials of these fab new features!
Using the Data Entry Pop-up in Budget Development and Forecasting
May 19th, 2017This is a pretty new (and awesome!) new feature and to avoid confusion, check out this quick video to show you how it’s done!
Keep in mind that not all Budget Offices may be using this option but it’s definitely a cool option and provides a quick, easy and intuitive data entry option for your end users! This video will show you how to avoid some of the common challenges when accessing the data entry pop-up.
Save Time with the FAST Report Scheduler!
May 9th, 2017If you’re not already using the FAST Report Scheduler to run, and automatically deliver your Pinned Reports to your in-box as a PDF or Excel file, we think you’re missing out on a great time-saving feature!
The Scheduler allows you to schedule any of your personal Pinned Reports to deliver automatically at any interval, frequency, day of the week and even time! We know that running pinned reports is a time-saver in itself – so this is just us being over-achievers as usual! Now you don’t even have to log into FAST to have those reports delivered as attachments to your email in-box when you want them!
Create your amazing and personally formatted pinned reports, schedule them for automated, regular and on-demand delivery!
If you need help getting started, be sure to check out the 5-minute How Do I? videos to learn more!
New Training Videos Released!
April 24th, 2017If you’re on your way to upgrading to the very cool 4.3.15 release or higher, you need to check out the new Admin video series that covers the new features including the FAST Table Builder that shows you how to create a quick and easy Oracle Table in FAST. You can create a table using a simple Excel upload or make one from scratch! You can then use that Table to create a multi-faceted data entry page right in your favourite FAST application! Capture data right in FAST and you manage who sees the page as a read-only report and who has data entry access to it.
If you don’t yet subscribe to the FAST training video libraries, what are you waiting for? Email us at training@mcsl.com to get started or for more info! We add tons of new video content all the time and it’s your best way to stay current on what’s new!
As a sneak peak – check out this brand new How Do I video on managing security for your new custom reporting pages!