[sims] SLG - New Students missing when reports ran

[Matthews]

Hi guys

 

I'm new to SLG and finding it hard work.

We have some new students in our school and when we run the report to generate letters home to parents with usernames and passwords on it, our new students aren't being generated.

 

Any help is appreciated!

 

Kel

[bobsmith]

have you provisioned their parents?

[Matthews]

How do I do that?

 

As you can tell the staff member who did this previously hasn't left any instructions for this...

[bobsmith]

Well I'm sure someone more experienced with SLG can correct me if I'm wrong, (I've avoided getting involved in SLG so far at my school - I'm angling for TASC or similar cos I hate sharepoint based systems).

 

Routines - Active Directory Provisioning - Provision Users - Contacts/Parents...

[Matthews]

Thanks Bobsmith

 

I went and looked at all my menus and found the Active Directory Provisioning. I'm not a big lover of SLG so far... It seems laborious and illogical to me! But then I've had no training and I'm learning as I go (Recipe for disaster I'm sure). We haven't even managed to get it to do the Data Collection Sheet thing yet!

 

Thanks again!

Kel

[robjduk]

You have learnt quickly that SLG is designed by idiots and purchased by teachers who dont know any better.

 

After you provision them in SIMS it also runs a file on the SIMS server to pull the data over. Take a look in your Sharepoint servers scheduled tasks and take a look in program files (x86)\SIMS\adpclient\changetracking\

 

In there is a file called adpscheduledprocesses.exe you need to run however we have (and think capita setup as standard) a bat file for it so we can run it whenever we want to. No doubt it should be running at least once a day.

 

Oh and just to add, you will want to visit http://localhost:1103/default.aspx on the same server which tells you what is happening in the background and if anyone has got stuck. If you are lucky you are running a modern version but the old one is a total pain in the d**k because each error pauses the entire process so good luck with that.

 

God I hate SLG.

Edited December 12, 2015 by robjduk

[Matthews]

You have learnt quickly that SLG is designed by idiots and purchased by teachers who dont know any better.

 

Couldn't agree more! ...and to top that... I'm expected to know all its functionality without any sort of 'show and tell'. The teachers must have been shown some pretty pictures eh!