Microsoft Excel Security updates break SIMS reports
Hi All For info from Capita forum (thanks Sally), awaiting Capita update "Just a heads up that recent Microsoft Excel Security updates seem to have broken any Excel report which creates a Pivot Table...
View Article[SIMS] List of Pupil's Teachers
Sounds simple - but how in SIMS do people get a list of all of a pupil's or group of pupils teachers? Is it just running a report? Cheers T
View Article[SIMS] Cover issue in SIMS
Hello. We have a number of staff members designated as cover supervisors. For 2017-18, when any coer is added to the cover module for hem to do they do not see it in their home page and on the cover...
View Article[SIMS] Autumn 2017 Census
I've applied the Fileset704 to our SIMS server and it's given a few errors but we can deal with the majority. The one we are struggling with is: - Pupils NC Year on leaving should be present for pupils...
View Article[SIMS] SIMS report issue
Morning, Sorry if this is in the wrong place but I'm not an IT professional. I'm trying to run a SIMS report that will have every child in the school along the left hand column, all subjects across the...
View ArticleTA's using the SIMS Teacher App
Hi, Does anyone know what permissions, etc are needed to allow our TA's to sign into the SIMS Teacher App? When we added the teachers, we had to put them as a 'class teacher' but we can't quite figure...
View ArticleAutumn Census 2017 Error 2341
Hi All, we are having trouble clearing a particular error in the dummy census report. The error is as follows: Error 2341 Postcode is missing or invalid for an off roll pupil for whom learning aims...
View ArticlePros and Cons of SSRS
Hi everyone, I've been asked about SSRS reporting and whether it's worth using to query the tables of an MIS (SIMS or Bromcom) to overcome the limits of their reporting engines. Has anyone done this...
View ArticlePros and Cons of SSRS/MS Report Builder
Hi everyone, I've been asked about SSRS reporting and whether it's worth using to query the tables of an MIS (SIMS or Bromcom) to overcome the limits of their reporting engines. Has anyone done this...
View ArticleTimetabling and Games lessons
For those that have to deal with timetables or are data managers, what do you do about games lessons? I think our quandary is more a need to change how we do things, rather than technical, but would...
View Article[SIMS] Cover - seeing future absences
Is it possible in one screen to see all absences (future) added to staff? I keep getting a seemingly repetitive absence appear for one of our teachers which I (or someone else) have added in error and...
View ArticleSims error when opening reports
One of our office machines has started getting an error when running certain reports and from the look of the error it looks line a .net error but I can't seem to find the problem. Target Tracker which...
View ArticleGroupcall Xporter v4 or v5
On the xporter site it lists v4 & v5 downloads and I am not sure what the difference is. I contacted my LA and they said if v5 does not work then use v4, as this is installing on a server I am a...
View ArticleReport request: Late to lesson by subject
Has anyone managed to get a report working that does lates by student by subject. So that a Head of Dept. can plan intervention. So it, for example, it would only show lates given in Science. Not...
View Article[SIMS] Sims - historic number of students in roll.
Hi all Anyway of getting an easy list of the number of students on roll for the past few years. Can't figure out how to mash out a simple report for this.
View Article[SIMS] Is there an official Attendance Summary calculation?
Good evening all, I've always wondered if there is an official calculation to work out attendance summary data? For example, I'm not entire sure how SIMS calculates the % attendance for the entire...
View ArticleSage 200C
We've made the mistake of moving to Sage's new 'cloud' based 200C, cloud based in the sense it uses a click once application on the client and various other executables dumped in the users local...
View ArticleSIMS and Office 2016
Hi We have a number of SIMS reports that produce an XML file that links to a Word template. This works fine on Office 2010 and also on Office 2016 until very recently. Instead of correctly opening the...
View Article[SIMS] NOVA T6 NCC additional information
Hi We have made good use of the excellent Salamander software to push timetables for staff into their Exchange/Outlook calendars. There is, however, one area which eludes us. Meetings between staff...
View ArticleAre MIS systems overpriced and do they under deliver?
---Quote (Originally by pcstru)--- Your original point said "My point at present is you have a premium price wihtout the premium functionality". The BECTA report does not evidence that, rather it says...
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