[SIMS] SIMs reports and Macros in Excel

[GillNash]

Hi, This is my first time here so apologies in advance.

I have been reading SIMs forums and seeing that people are writing Macro's in Excel within a SIMs report, and I would very much like to be able to do that.

I asked SIMs and was told "The Professional Services team DO NOT have a report writing product. What they can offer is a Consultancy day where a report could be one of the end products, but it is a minimum 1 day consultancy at 1 day consultancy rates."

Someone mentioned an Advanced Training Handbook on here, but I couldn't find it anywhere to download. I really just want to be able to do a little tidying up in Excel with a Behaviour report for example, by putting it into a Pivot table say.

I am not an expert in Excel, but a little better than average.

Hope someone can help.

[LosOjos]

Hi Gill,

welcome to EduGeek.

I have sent you a PM that should help

[GillNash]

Thank you so much , I couldn't reply to your PM as I have to have at least two before I can do that.

I have a nice bit of bed time reading!

[vikpaw]

hey Gill
I just modified an excel macro that dumps emails to outlook. Was fairly straightforward.
I can't remember what is in the advanced docs.
Is that the document entitled Excel Macro Reporting.doc ?
Not sure what you've got now, but this thread may also be useful, if for nothing else, the examples. Edit Excel Output

[GillNash]

hey Gill
I just modified an excel macro that dumps emails to outlook. Was fairly straightforward.
I can't remember what is in the advanced docs.
Is that the document entitled Excel Macro Reporting.doc ?
Not sure what you've got now, but this thread may also be useful, if for nothing else, the examples. Edit Excel Output

Thank you so much I did it

[vikpaw]

Cool. Is it something funky that you can share ..?

[GillNash]

Cool. Is it something funky that you can share ..?

Not funky at all, sorry, it was just producing a report with three pivot tables. We have introduced a Uniform Infringement sanction in behaviour through the register and the Year Mangers want to see the list every week as a group, by students and by the teachers issuing them, and I didn't fancy creating the pivot tables every time.

So simple and not as clever as some of the things the rest of you have been doing I am sure, but I can't believe how easy it was in the end. Thank you so much.

[CAM]

Doing this is fun and a good show-off tool. It can also be used to strip the date format fix that exports all numbers as text.

I made one for the SLT in charge of attendance and she is clamouring for more.

[Bernie]

Hi, Sorry to jump in but wuld it be possible to send me a copy of the Advanced Training Handbook? I'd find it really useful!

[creese]

Hi, Sorry to jump in but wuld it be possible to send me a copy of the Advanced Training Handbook? I'd find it really useful!

That's a definite No, No as far as Capita are concerned.

[vikpaw]

Hi, Sorry to jump in but wuld it be possible to send me a copy of the Advanced Training Handbook? I'd find it really useful!

@Bernie - follow my link in post #4 That should give you an idea of what you can do.

[Bernie]

Thanks vikpaw

[Ecclesbury]

Afternoon all,

Just in case it helps anyone else who is heading down the SIMS macro editing path and can't find the C:\Program Files\SIMS\SIMS .net\tempRpt\ReportData.xls folder as described in the excellent document linked above (as I couldn't!) I found mine in the My Documents\tempsimsrpt folder on my roaming profile account.

Pandora's box has been well and truly opened.