Displaying SIMS calendar onto our website?

[andyturpie]

Morning,

 

I'm not an MIS guru by a long chalk - I can install it via Solus3 but rarely open the application itself, but I have been asked by staff if there any way of exporting the SIMS calendar or linking the calendar so it can be viewed on our website externally by parents etc.

 

At the moment there's umpteen different calendars being used in the school, we are looking to enforce the use of one only if possible?

 

Thanks in advance!

[bobsmith]

If you want to use one then I'd propose that outlook would be the answer - doesn't salamandersoft allow the export of sims calendar to outlook - or was it the other way around?

[minimoo]

i've got a powershell script i use to export the data to exchange web services (so outlook can access it)

[rpwillis]

Morning,

 

I'm not an MIS guru by a long chalk - I can install it via Solus3 but rarely open the application itself, but I have been asked by staff if there any way of exporting the SIMS calendar or linking the calendar so it can be viewed on our website externally by parents etc.

 

I'd go with a public Exchange or Google Apps calendar depending on which service you are using. This would need scripting though.

 

At the moment there's umpteen different calendars being used in the school, we are looking to enforce the use of one only if possible?

That's not necessarily a bad thing as long as you then combine them into a single calendar for viewing. This allows different people to be responsible for editing specific information, and also a more targeted view if they only want to look at a specific type of information.

Edited January 11, 2016 by rpwillis
Fix quoting.

[Steve21]

We link to an outlook calendar too. Lets people easily copy stuff across from our private internal one, and easy to use

 

Steve

[andyturpie]

Thanks for the feedback - I have currently created an Outlook Calendar called StaffCal and I imported from a .csv from a SIMS report- this contains every single event throughout the year and staff will hopefully by SLT drive be coached into using this instead of the SIMS calendar.

 

Now my way of thinking is to create another calendar say ParentCal which would be the one which would be the calendar that will be displayed on the website, unless is there a way to filter out the staff entries so that only the pertinent info for parents is displayed, or would I have to go down the two separate calendars route and have the information updated on both (any idea of a 3rd party application that can apply an indentical update to two calendars?).

[Steve21]

We have two separate ones, internal and external. And external stuff is manually copied (can copy/paste within Outlook) across, to ensure nothing is added by accident Easy to copy across for admin ladies in seconds so never bothered with applications.

 

Steve