[sims] New and stuck in a school on my own. SIMS help......please!!

[useraaron321]

Hi I'm in a school on my own and am stuck on something that's probably quite simple. I wanted to allow them to input medical conditions into SIMS as they have requested. I have found some information on parameters but nothing actually telling me how to do it. Could anyone please help me out with this?

 

Thanks

[rad]

Are you refering to Staff login rights to be able to enter medical information?

[bossman]

@useraaron321:

 

They require adding to the following group: administration assistant

 

You can download the SimsPerm latest from the Capita website or I could attach it to an e-mail if you reply or PM me with your details

Edited October 8, 2014 by bossman

[Linfit]

If they need to be able to edit panel 7. Medical, then they need to be in an appropriate user group.

The Class Teacher group has permissions to view this panel but not edit.

 

There are a number of groups that can edit this panel, but Administration Assistant would do it.

 

Assuming you have SIMS System Manager permissions, go to Focus>System Manager>Manage Users.

Search for the user who needs to do the editing, and then in Panel 3 Groups, click Add. Find the Admin assistant group from the browser and select it. Done.

They will need to log out and then back in to SIMS to see the changes.

Edited October 8, 2014 by Linfit

[bossman]

@Linfit:

 

Thanks!

 

My bad eyesight again hehe!

@useraaron321 what @Linfit say's will give these staff the access rights to be able to read and edit.

 

Rule of thumb regarding Sims which has always served me well is to give end users the least access rights required to do their tasks and no more, as the old saying goes " Too many cooks spoil the broth"

[Linfit]

@bossman makes a very important point - I try and enforce the rule here (try being the operative word) that certain sections of SIMS are maintained by only one person. If multiple people are changing the same data it can get very confusing, and causes no end of problems with things like census returns.

With something like this, one member of staff should be responsible for updating that panel, and all updates fed through them.

[useraaron321]

Guys you have sorted this out for me I thank you for your jedi ways

 

I have also limited this to one person to edit like suggested.

 

One other problem has now arisen though I understand that there is a list of codes that are there for each condition that the kids have. There are a list of about 20 conditions from the drop down menu but there are lots more missing. is there some kind of list I can print off for them to use here.

[Linfit]

The lookup tables can be configured from Tools>Lookups>Maintain

 

If you find Medical Condition in the list you can add new ones, make old ones inactive etc and print them out.

Be careful adding new ones though as if they are ever used you can never delete them, just make them inactive, which means they cannot be seen in the dropdown but remain in the historical records.

[useraaron321]

perfect thanks sorry to sound stupid but do I do that from the manager or does the office lady here I'm trying to do this for do it from her log-in?

[neilenormal]

Unlikely the office user will have access rights to Tools Lookups Maintain so use the manager account