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Thanks - that's done the trick!

This is the scenario:a pupil is admitted to the school in September but never attends because he moves with his dad to another town. He's taken off roll. Today, having decided that he'd rather live with his mum, he returns to our school, whereupon we receive the CTF file from the previous school, which appears to import correctly. However, his dad is listed as the primary contact. In trying to delete the father's contact details (indeed trying to make any alteration to the data) SIMS won't let the file save and reports "The UPN entered is duplicate". How can I clear this error? Thanks!

Re-installed Discover from scratch - this seemed to do the trick, and all seems to be well now.

Using Discover for the first time, I've created some Discover aspects. However, after logging in to the configuration utility and clicking "Transfer", the system hangs with the message "Transfer requested - waiting for service". I've left it going all day, but nothing has happened. What am I doing wrong?

Vik it was indeed an issue wit a duplicate record for the staff member, and I have it sorted now. Never seen this before - guess I've just been lucky! Thanks for your help

Many thanks for the response Vic. Answers to your questions below: Is the user still associated with that class? So in curriculum assignment her initials appear at the top of the column. Yes - she is still associated with her classes, and her initials are appearing in curriculum assignment. Has something changed with the timetable, like it's split taught, and she is not the main teacher. No - nothing's changed, and she is the main teacher, it's not split. The template has current courses associated with it, and it's not a class that rotates or anything..? I know it works in SLG, just trying to rule out issues. Yep - everything's current on the templates, and none of her classes are rotating ones I take it the user doesn't have Assessment Co-ordinator or assistant rights does she? so changing to view sheets from all owner would fix it..? She is just a.n.other teacher with standard permissions, not co-ordinator or anything like that. EDIT: Just thinking, did this just start now / this year. Did she leave employment and come back again? Maybe the user is duplicated, but still coming through as the right login within SLG Ok - this might be worth investigating. Her name does appear twice in the drop down list (it didn't used to). But each one is displaying the same single marksheet in the browser. Would it be worth disconnecting the marksheets in the templates and then re-attaching them?

I've been using Assessment Manager for years and never come across this before! I have one member of staff whose marksheets (apart from one) have stopped appearing in the browser when this is accessed from Sims.net. The marksheets are showing up on the template, and indeed can be accessed from there. However, if she uses the SLG, all the marksheets appear and can be selected. It's only in Sims.net that they have disappeared from. This doesn't make any sense to me. Does anyone have any ideas what's going on, and how I can fix it?

I got all excited about this because the JD is practically the same as mine (and I'm only on 20K) - until I read that you have to do the timetable! Done that before - never again!!!

Thanks for your suggestions, Synack.

Apologies - this isn't related to my school-based work. Does anyone have any expertise/knowledge of FileMaker? A friend of mine runs a market research company and has all her data stored in FileMaker 6. She has recently bought a new computer running Windows 7 and discovered that she can't run FM6. She's now bought FM11, which doesn't appear to be backwards compatible. She needs to know what she has to do to get her data up and running in the new version. I'm familiar with Access, (and SIMS!) but have never used FM so I don't know what to advise. I don't get the impression that FileMaker support have been very helpful.

Are you always that patronising? So much for a friendly welcome to a first time poster! Of course I understand the "principals"(sic) of "more is better", but that wasn't really my question. I had read of people using a lower spec computer and reporting that Discover worked fine on them, and I was just wondering what other users' experiences were like and whether any conclusions could be drawn as to a realistic spec that the software could run on.

This is my first time posting on Edugeek! I'm a data manager in a high school - I don't get too involved in the techie side of things, my job is mainly data analysis. Has anyone come up with a realistic recommended spec for running Discover? I've asked our network manager to install it on my machine, and there was one of those sharp intakes of breath when he read SIMS' system requirements for this functionality, especially when he got to the part about 4 gig of RAM and a dedicated graphics card. No machine in the school has the capability to run this software. However, I read on SupportNet that people are running it successfully with lower spec machines. My computer has only onboard graphics and 1 Gb of RAM, so I guess as far as Discover is concerned it's a donkey. Any thoughts, comments, experiences? Thanks...