Banner Naming Conventions
Banner forms, reports, jobs and tables have seven-character names with the following structure:
Position 1
Identifies the primary system owning the form, report, job or table.
| A Alumni/Development | K Work Management | S Student |
| B Property Tax | L Occupational Tax/License | T Accounts Payable |
| C Courts | N Position Control | U Utilities |
| D Cash Drawer | O Customer Contact | V Voice Response |
| F Finance | P HR/Payroll/Personnel | X Records Indexing |
| G General | Q Electronic Work Queue | W, Y , Z Reserved for client applications that co-exist with Banner 2000 |
| I Information Access | R Financial Aid | |
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Position 2
Identifies the module owning the form, report, job or table.
General (G) | Alumni/Development (A) | HR/Payroll/Personnel (P) |
| E Event Management | A Membership | A Application |
| J Job Submission | D Designation | B Budget |
| L Letter Generation | E Event Management | C COBRA |
| O Overall | F Campaign | D Benefits/Deductions |
| P Purge | G Pledge and Gift/Pledge Mgmt | E Employee |
| S Security | M Prospect Management | H Time Reporting/History |
| T Validation form/table | O Organization | O Overall |
| U Utility | P Constituent/Person | P General Person |
X Cross product
| S Solicitor Organization | R Electronic Approvals |
Student (S) | T Validation form/table | S Security |
A Admissions
| U Utility
| T Validation/rule table |
| C Catalog | X Expected Matching Gift | U Utility |
| E Support Services | Financial Aid (R) | X Tax Administration |
| F Registration/Fee Assessment | B Budgeting | Finance (F) |
| G General Student | C Record Creation | A Accounts Payable
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| H Grades/Academic History | E Electronic Data Exchange
| B Budget Development |
| I Faculty Load | F Funds Management
| C Cost Accounting |
| K Reserved for SCT Intl. - UK | H History and Transcripts | E Electronic Data Interchange |
| L Location Management | J Student Employment
| F Fixed Assets |
| M CAPP | L Logging
| G General Ledger |
O Overall
| N Need Analysis
| I Investment Management |
P Person
| O Common Functions
| O Operations |
R Recruiting
| P Packaging & Disbursements
| P Purchasing/Procurement
|
S Schedule
| R Requirements Tracking | R Research Accounting
|
T Validation form/table
| S Student System Shared Data | S Stores Inventory |
| U Utility | T Validation form/table
| T Validation form/table
|
| | U Utility
| U Utility
|
| | | X Archive/Purge
|
Accounts Receivable (T) | Information Access (I) | |
F Finance Accounts Receivable
| S Student
| |
G General Accounts Receivable
| R Financial Aid
| |
O Overall
| | |
S Student Accounts Receivable
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T Validation form/table
| | |
U Utility
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Position 3
Identifies the type of form, report, job or table
General (G) | Student (S) | Finance (F) |
| A Application Form | A Application form | A Application form |
| B Base Table Batch COBOL process | B Base table | B Base Table |
| I Inquiry Form | I Inquiry Form | I Inquiry form |
| O Online COBOL process | P Process | M Maintenance form |
| Q Query form | Q Query form | Q Query form |
R Rule Table /Repeating Table Report/process | R Rule table/Repeating Table Report/Process | R Rule Table Repeating Table Report/Process |
T General maintenance Temporary Table | V Validation form/table View | V Validation form/table View |
| V Validation form/table View | | |
Financial Aid (R) | HR/Payroll/Personnel (P) | Alumni/Development (A) |
| A Application form | A Application form | A Application form |
| B Base Table | B Base Table Batch COBOL process | B Base Table |
| I Inquiry form | I Inquiry form | C Called/list form |
| P Process/Report | P Process | I Inquiry form |
R Rule Table /Repeating Table Report/process | R Rule Table/Repeating Table Report/process
| P Process/Report |
| T Temporary table | V Validation form/table | R Repeating rules table |
V Validation form/table View | | V Validation form/table View |
Accounts Receivable (T) | Information Access | |
| A Application form | R Report | |
| I Inquiry | | |
| P Process | | |
| Q Query | | |
| R Report | | |
| V Validation form/table | | |
Position 4, 5, 6 and 7
Uniquely identify the form, report, job, or table.
Example
SPAIDEN | |
| S | Student |
| P | Person |
| A | Application |
| IDEN | Identification |