neilenormal

You can add User Defined fields to any Panel now - they dont need to appear in Tab13 right at the bottom. When setting them up, they will appear in Student area but choose the "Basic Desatils" panel when setting up. I think you can "move" existing ones as well. They will, hovever, appear after the standard data in the Basic details area Tab1

You can design a report in SIMS to output all the codes, eg for today, choosing AM only, and choose the default output for the report as Analysis. Gives a table like view of who might be off with which codes. Works quite well for a daily snapshot

that service should show as "running" You could try re-adding the SA authorisation on the database shown in SOLUS3 - even change it, save it then change it back to the correct one. Has worked for us in the past I would try to get SIMS upgraded before attempting to upgrade SOLUS3.

The Solus3 deployment service can be reinstalled manually when this happens. Extract the MSI from Solus3 interface and run it manually to get the service back. You should then be able to go onwards to version 3.12.59 Server 2016 by any chance?

I might suggest you add the "extra?" INSET day via the School Diary. Much than editing the academic year once it is set up. It will deal with pupil attendance correctly. Neilenormal

Easiest way - do it via the School Diary Delete the one on 4th and add one on 8th HTH

The Student List reports are good here: you can just drag UDFs straight onto the report. There is even an Export button to get it straight to excel. HTH

You can use the Discover Administration Utility to change the look of the attendance graphs. If you choose five percent intervals rather than one percent ones, and play with the number of bars, using say six only, you then go back in to Discover and find that the percentage sesion attendance graph looks a bit different and has a last column of "less than x%". Drag this single bar onto the create new group button, and save it as a Dynamic group, so that you can click the little flag symbol to be notified of students joining and leaving this group. The home page in Sims.net then will alert you with a message in "my messages". Instant notification that little johnny has dropped below x%attendance, or little billy just got out of the group following some intervention perhaps. Whilst Discover has lost a bit over time it is still good for the pastoral stuff. HTH

??could you add an additional column into Excel after the date one that comes from sims, then use a use a formula such as =datevalue(cell to left) Then format it as a date, but as a datevelue you can calculate terms etc. Useful when you want to calculate "term of birth" from sims into excel

looks like @Linfit was on the money to me.... "Is the Census folder set correctly and do you have Write permissions on it ? " it sounds from what you say that it is trying to create the xml file but cant due to permissions. Try deliberately changing the Census folder location to somewhere else as a test?

Sorry - misunderstood the Q What about Tools, Lookups, Maintain and edit "Behaviour Status" This is the likes of "resolved" "Unresolved" "refer to Year head" etc?

in SIMS Tools.... Lookups... Maintain type beh in the box and search edit the Behaviour - Action Taken to add more or edit the ones you need HTH

as @round2it said - Don't do it The image will have a GUID still linked to the old agent, and causes all sorts of problems - remove solus3 agent before making an image is good advice

@SimonCygnetIT Good answer!!

I think the KB needs just a bit extra information. As far as I am aware Solus3 does not maintain the setups folder any more - therefore, possibly as you experienced, you run SIMSCentralServerSetup.exe (which is an older version) and nothing updates. I would prefer it to say you need to "extract" the file server element of the Autumn15 upgrade (or the latest one!) from the Solus3 UI (to a folder of your choice or the setups folder) and THEN run SIMSCentralServerSetup.exe to the location that is correct e.g. s:\sims (which should also be in your workstation's sims.ini file) HTH

use the current pastoral structure if your access rights show it you? Members from a right click brings up numbers

Think this may have been answered elsewhere? but if not check for the staff with high working days lost that they have an end date to each and every absence as well as the correctly filled working days lost. Run the Absence Analysis alongside the Individual absence report, see where they differ? HTH

IIRC you have to add an extra column, with a formula something like "=date(b2)" [where cell b2 has the sims exported date in it] and then format that any way Excel can. Its a pain!

If you have on the SIMS homepage, an attendance summary for the whole school, YTD, it shows the current attendance percentage of the school (when you hover mouse over it) in a nice graph. One of the choices at top right of graph is "Toggle" - this will then change to a list of pupils with "Todays unauthorised absences" Really useful feature, and under utilised possibly This might be useful to your user on a daily basis

on newly imaged PC what are permissions on this folder: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys is there a file beginning 1d.... in here? check permissions on that too and also permissions on program files folder? I would be tempted to remove everything from PC, remove agent from Soluis3 Ui, export an agent from Solus3 and go to the PC and install manually from the exported agent. If it installs correctly you will see it online in Solus3. Add agent in as a sims client to the Solus3 UI.

If you image a PC with the solus3 agent on it already it messes up the GUID between server and workstation once the workstation clone is back up. You will need to uninstall the agent manually from the workstation via control panel. Remove the agent from the server Solus3 UI also Then you have to start over

Quick Q? Did you take solus3 agent OFF PC before imaging it?

Yes the method is correct. it is just adding a "shortcut" to the report into the Category browse, doesn't affect the original To delete from a category: Reports | Design | Open an existing, browse to category and right click to delete a report. Deletes from Category but leaves original under its specific focus.

DNS error? Looks to me like its a wrong IP or a laptop that has both a wireless and wired connection Look in DNS and make it correct. Then redeploy to workstation

Are permissions to c:\program files subfolders correct? Had issues with win7 where propagation to lower folders was not working correctly. We created a Solus3 folder under program files manually and made sure modify/full control perms were set, Then installed again.... sometimes we just give up trying to send agent files from server. Remove the agent (failed or stuck) from server UI. Export the agent from server then visit PC with USB stick (or mapped drive) and "run as admin.." on the batch file. Easy to then add existing agent as a sims PC back in the server UI