1. Custom Reports Made Easy Using sqlReports
Laurie Kinney
Michigan PSUG Summer Academy
June 2010

2. About Laurie Laurie Kinney (laurie.kinney@cadillac.k12.mi.us)
Technology , Assessment and Data Coordinator – Cadillac Area Public Schools
PowerSchool newbie – converted from SASI this year (after 14 years)
Old dog trying to learn new tricks

3. Objectives What is sqlReports? How do I install it? Why do I want it?
How do I use it?
How do I customize reports for my school?
How do I write my own reports?
Other?

4. What is sqlReports? sqlReports is a simple way of creating
sql queries inside PowerSchool.
It is like a beefy List Students function only you can query any table or view, save the query for repeated use, and even export the query to give to all your PowerSchool friends for Christmas.

5. Downloading sqlReports
sqlReports can be downloaded from
You will need to create an account in order to login and download anything from PDS

6. Installing sqlReports
After downloading the zip file, uncompress it and place the sqlReports folder in the admin folder of your custom web_root.
For more details on adding custom pages see the following:

7. Using sqlReports Now that sqlReports is installed, how do we use it?
Navigate to Reports and select sqlReports from the tabs.
In order to create a new report your user account needs to be part of Group 9 (Administrators).
Click the link to Create a new sqlReport link.

8. Questions?
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