USING SONRIS DATA ACCESS SONRIS Data Access has been reconfigured to integrate Conservation Classic, SONRIS Lite, Reports and Reports on Demand (formerly Discoverer Reports) into one area where all are accessible. This eliminates the need to go back and forth from Conservation to Lite to Reports to Discoverer. Please see the following instructions for navigation. Get to SONRIS by going to the DNR homepage (http://dnr.louisiana.gov/) and clicking on the SONRIS icon, or by accessing SONRIS directly at www.sonris.com. This will bring you to the SONRIS home page. In the menu on the left click on Data Access (New). This will eventually be the only Data Access available. The new Data Access will look like this:
You will notice that the screens are now separated by Office and within each office by Category. Access to the different SONRIS screens is gained by clicking on the Category name to open it. For example, when we click on the Well Information category under the Office of Conservation heading, we get this: The Item Name tells you what the screen will return the label will tell you what format it is available in. Click on the label to access the screen in the format you want. The chart below will describe the label. The Standard label indicates what was previously considered Conservation Classic. This tutorial will describe using all Label Types
Standard Standard SONRIS screens use Java to display sophisticated query screens and results. Remaining under the category Well Information, we will look at the item Amended Permit to Drill. Click on Standard. This link will bring up the Amend Permit to Drill screen in Conservation. The window that opens will look like this: To prepare the screen, or to ENTER the query, you can choose from one of the following options: You can click on Query and then select ENTER from the drop list You can click the Enter Query button Or click the F7 button on your keyboard. Once you ve done this, you will find you can enter data into the search field you are going to use. We are going to search using the Serial Number 123456.
Enter the serial number into the serial number field: Then we are ready to Execute the query. To return or EXECUTE the query, you can choose from one of the following options: The returned result will look like this: You can click on Query and then select EXECUTE from the drop list You can click the Execute Query button Or click the F8 button on your keyboard. Please note that when using Standard screens they cannot be copied and pasted, only screen shots can be taken here.
Lite Items that work without using any plug-ins, only native web browser functionality. Remaining under the category Well Information, we will look at the item Wells By API Number. Click on Lite. This link will bring up the screen to search for Wells By API Number. The window that opens will look like this: Enter the API number of the well you are interested in. You may need to add 0 s to the end of the number to fill in the spaces provided. Remember to put them at the end. Click the Submit Query button for the results.
The returned results will be a list of all the wells associated with the entered API Number. Click on the Well Serial Number to get to the well information in the SONRIS Lite database. The results will be displayed. All information in SONRIS Lite can be copied and pasted into an excel spreadsheet. Simply highlight what you want pasted, right click and copy, open excel, right click and paste. You may have to adjust the columns to suit your needs. Also, remember, any object in SONRIS Lite that is blue and underlined is a hyperlink and will take you to that particular information. Use the back button to get to the previous screen.
Report SONRIS Reports display a web page to enter report criteria, then display the results in PDF format. Remaining in the Conservation Menu under the category Well Information, we look for the item Wells by Parish. Click on Report. The screen will display like this: Enter the FROM date and TO DATE in the indicated format:
Select the parish from the list. We are going to choose East Baton Rouge Parish. The search screen will look like this. Then click Submit Query. The report will open in.pdf format and look like this: The report can then be printed.
ROD~ Reports on Demand - Reports on Demand display a spreadsheet-like interface to produce customizable reports. There is a video tutorial available at www.sonris.com on the SONRIS homepage. The link is available under the heading Data Access in the middle of the page: Under the Conservation heading, Well Information Category, we navigate to Wells by Status Click on ROD to open access to the report search criteria screen. When the report opens, a box titled Edit Parameter Values will be displayed. Here we will enter the information that will allow us to create the report we need and structure it to our specifications. The search fields are different for every report. In the Wells by Status Report, you can search by: Well Status Parish Well Status Date Product Type Code Well Field Area Code
If you know the information you are looking for, and know it in the correct Office of Conservation code format, you can enter the information into the search field. If you don t know the correct Office of Conservation code format, you can search for it. By clicking the flashlight to the right of the search field, you gain access to a list of values for that particular search field. When we click on the flashlight, we notice that there is a drop down box directly to the right of Well Status. This drop box, when clicked, has two values: INDEX and VALUE. Use INDEX when you know the well status code you are interested in and want to type it in; use VALUE when you want to search for available status codes. In our case we are going to use VALUE and search for available status codes. A box entitled SELECT VALUES will pop up. This is where we search for our code or codes.
Sometimes when searching for a code or value, ALL VALUES may be checked, by default. If this is the case, we are given the option to select our own values. To select our own value, we will simple click on the box before SELECTED VALUES. This will allow us access to select the desired search options without knowing specific codes or names. For example, by searching in the List of Values for Parish we can select the parish by name listed. ALL VALUES is selected by default. To choose our own values, click the box before SELECTED VALUES. You will notice once we click the box before SELECTED VALUES we are given access to the boxes for us to the SEARCH FOR value field to enter the parishes we d like to create a report for.
Suppose we know we want all the parishes that have the word SAINT in them. In the SEARCH FOR box, type in the word SAINT. Then click GO. All of the parishes available for your search that have the word SAINT in them will be returned in the Displayed Values section. Select the ones you are interested in by clicking the single right arrow to get them into the Selected Values box. ALL VALUES is deselected. SELECTED VALUES is selected. We type our search option in the SEARCH FOR field and hit GO. On the left, the box titled Displayed Values is where we will choose the parishes we want for our report. If we want all the available parishes, click the double right arrow button. This will pull all the parishes from Displayed Values into Selected Values. To bring them all back, click the double left arrow button. To select several different parishes, hold the control button on your keyboard down while you click on the parishes you want. Then click the single right arrow button to get them to the selected values. If there is one you didn t want, highlight it, click on the single left button and bring it back over to the displayed list. To bring items over from the DISPLAYED VALUES box, select the item to highlight it and then click the single arrow button that points to the right. This will bring the selected value into the SELECTED VALUES box.
The values have been moved over to SELECTED VALUES. Click OK to run the report. When you have selected the values you want for your report click OK. This will take us back to our Edit Parameter Values box. You will notice that our selected parishes are listed in the Parish field. If there is a * by the Index Value, then the field is required. This is the case for Well Status for the Wells by Status report. You can go further to drill down the report by selecting more search values. We will stop here and hit OK to run the report. To get complete list of active wells in the selected parishes, we simply click OK. The returned result will be a report that contains a list of all wells in the selected parameters.
Notice at the top of the form is the report title, the date and time the report was run and the chosen parameters. The title and run date and time are also on the bottom. Our report looks good, but we decide we want to change it up a bit. By clicking the circular arrow at the top of the page, the refresh tool, we can drill a little deeper into our report and get a result more narrow to what we need.
When we click the refresh arrow, it brings us back to our Edit Parameter Values box. Let s add a search value for Product Type Code. Click the flashlight to get to the available Product. For tutorial purpose, we ll select GAS. Highlight GAS in the Displayed Values and click the single arrow right arrow to bring it over to Selected Values. Click OK.
You will notice that GAS is now listed as a parameter in the Application Status search field in our Edit Parameter Values box. Click ok to run the report. The resulted report is a list of the Active wells for the Parishes we selected with Product Type of Gas. You can use the Refresh arrow to change any available parameters for the chosen report at any time during report building. The report is done to our satisfaction and can be exported to a format that I can use in my own system or database. We can now export report to a format we can use. Go to FILE and select EXPORT.
The export tool will open. At step one, click NEXT. At step two answer the questions for how you want to format the report. Question one will ask the file format you want to use, you can select that from the drop down list. Question two asks what folder you want to save the file to.
Question three asks you to name the report. It is suggested that you date (YYYYMMDD) the report. The program connects straight to the database the data can change daily if updates to the system are made. Naming the report using the date can save confusion if the report is run at a later date Click SAVE to go on. The next step lets you confirm the format, file destination and name. After confirmation, click next. Step three shows the values we selected for the report.
After confirming they are correct, click NEXT. Step four asks if you want to supervise the export. Leave this as it is and click FINISH. The export will take place and the export log will display that the export is complete. Uncheck the box that says Open the First Exported Sheet and click OK.
The report has been exported in the chosen format to the chosen computer destination. We are finished with using Reports on Demand (ROD) and will now close it properly. Go to File and select Exit. This will close Reports on Demand. You may get the following message. If you do, click YES to close the browser window. From here, go to windows explorer and navigate to where you saved your file. My file is saved in excel format directly on desktop.
When the file is opened, there is a SECURITY WARNING bar indicating that the Macros have been disabled. I click the enable content button to allow the macro to run. You will notice that the first column is very wide. This happens because of the report title.
You can resize the first column to accommodate the data in it. I save the changes and the report is ready for use.
PDF These reports link directly to PDF (portable document format) files without additional input. Under the Conservation heading, Well Information category, we will click on Lafayette Scout Details PDF. The report opens directly.
Data Access History You will notice at the top of the Data Access page there is a YOUR HISTORY section. This part of the page will keep a running tab of where you have been. You can click on the link to get to your most commonly used searches without having to navigate through the menu for them. Items will stay in the history list as long as you don t delete cookies from your machine. You can also remove history items by clicking the red circled dash or minus sign. You can also reload or refresh the page here