SIMS Spring 2019 Release

[Greg]

Capita have announced the rerelease of the Spring 2019 update

https://myaccount.capita-cs.co.uk/Notifications/sims-spring7186-release/

 

Have fun...

[bobsmith]

just asked my NM to delay roll out till after Easter.....

 

We could guess what's broken already?

[howartp]

Well I would read the release notes, but they're not working as usual.

[round2it]

ok so after updating last night, certain pages in sims have the ok cancel button appearing underneath the task bar with no way to resize having to use tab to get to them

[howartp]

Screenshot?

[Sylv3r]

I Installed this latest release on Wednesday, no issues reported back to us yet.

[matt40k]

Hopefully you won't have to contact the ICO after applying this update

 

 

(Too soon?)

[DrCheese]

No no, you won't have to contact them yet. That'll be 6 months from now when Capita realise somethings broken & then they'll try to pass all the blame onto you/block you from using it until you accept that it's your fault. (Thankfully the ICO will see it differently)

 

Then they'll not be a BETT next year again because of "" - Not because they're trying to avoid being hunted down by people angry at them for causing them loads of extra work.

[DrCheese]

& guess what - Low and behold!

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/mis-systems/198167-urgent-capita-sims-data-issue-issued-childrens-services-15.html#post1756754

[matt40k]

You can't make this up.

 

I heard they had some address logic that has always been disabled that they had apparently enabled. Speaking with one of the old devs, the reason it was disabled was because they never could get it to work. I wonder if all this trouble is caused by some code some developer wrote years and years ago and never got round to finishing. Be hilarious if it is, especially if this is the 2nd attempt at finishing it :D

[kingoranks]

We wont update for a while, no way

[CAM]

Just got to the NM in time. He was due to run the patch tomorrow!

[DrCheese]

haha, My joke made the register

 

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/04/capita_reports_incident_with_schools_information_management_system/

[matt40k]

#MadeIt

[DrCheese]

I know right, totally famous!

 

But in all seriousness, glad this was caught yesterday as I'd planned to roll it out last night!

[Boredguy]

I did roll it out last night, but warned the admin staff this morning.

They should have a fix by the time we get back from half term (hopefully)

[ITGuyNW]

BT Lancashire have called us to say the rollout for tonight is now delayed until after Half Term.

[pete]

Yeah, I had this planned for Easter hols, but it's suspended now until it's clearer a) what's broken and b) the data implications

[TwistedHelixis]

They should have a fix by the time we get back from half term (hopefully)

Which half term are you thinking :0P

[Greg]

Patch 24836 has just been released to fix the issue

[round2it]

Applied patch. Let's see if it gets pulled.