ChrisMoore

This could be an issue as Win 3.x apps run in under a seperate "emulation" layer called WinOldApp I think ? Win 3.x was 16-bit, Windows 95 onwards was 32-bit so this layer was used to translate ("thunk") the calls between the two different systems.

Glad its working now.

If you want to PM me some details such as : - where the PAD program is running from and how it is started - user permissions - where the Impact database is located - School name would be useful too then we can see if a connection can be made. Do you have an active support agreement ? EDIT - Also the OS versions installed would be useful.

Apologies you are having issues. Does the new server have a different IP address as the old one or is it replacing the old one ?

No problem - the only thing to be careful of is where you are linking SIMS to ID Manager to make sure the linking IDs are populated on both sides correctly. Not a major issue just something to be aware of. Good luck.

Hi, Glennda has it right. Cunninghams use the GroupCall exporter to feed BioStore which then feeds Impact and other applications with account details and photographs if you need them. We use GroupCall or our own exporter for the first part. So the flow would be SIMS -> Exporter -> BioStore ->Impact (and other systems if required) This way you manage all data via SIMS and you have a single repository of data. From SIMS we can extract students, staff and pre-starts (for visits) - staff and students have the option of photographs as well. If you contact Cunninghams and tell them you want a BioMetric link from SIMS they should be able to set this up for you - I may get involved myself if there is any data syncing to be done as part of the setup Cheers Chris

Is this VB.NET ? If so you could use the OleDB adapter for Excel and CSV files, or use a parser like this one. It will give you an ADO DataSet and DataTable with the CSV data in it so you can show the data in a grid and apply searches or filters.

Breaking it up seems a sensible approach. I have a base settings class. This deals with opening or creating settings files, adding/amending/deleting settings by name and handling security. Then I inheret from this class to make a specific example which includes the settings I need as properties. These properties can then be bound to boxes and controls on the form either manually or via binding. This makes the code in my form very small (my code is C# but it should be easy to translate) Form create : Settings sett = new Settings(fileName); Read settings : try { sett.ReadSettings(); txtUserName.Text = sett.UserName; txtDepartment.Text = sett.Department; : : } catch(Exception ex) { MessageBox.Show("Error when reading settings - " + ex.Message); } and going the other way, Save Settings: try { sett.UserName = txtUserName.Text; sett.Department = txtDepartment.Text; : : sett.SaveSettings(); } catch(Exception ex) { MessageBox.Show("Error when saving settings - " + ex.Message); } Instead of manually populating the fields you could use binding by implementing IPropertyNotified in your base settings class and have each property call OnPropertyChanged() on each setter : private string _UserName; public string UserName { get { return _UserName; } set { _UserName = value; OnPropertyChanged("UserName"); } } If you don't then any changes made in the form won't get back to the underlying settings class.

Aha - The BioStore / Non-Bio relates to who is the source of data to Impact, ID Manager or something else. You are running a BioStore 1 link (another wrinkle )which is why you are using the non-BioStore link software. Your data flow would be MIS -> Our Link (ImpactSIMSProcessor) -> Impact -> Bio A BioStore 2 link is driven by ID Manager, so the flow would be MIS -> MIS Link (GroupCall or our own) -> ID Manager -> BioStoreUpdate -> Impact We try and fit in with however the site wants to work, which is why we can have quite a few variations . Hope this helps, any more questions let me know. Cheers

That is interesting then What is your data flow - MIS->Bio->Impact ?

Hi Peter, Do you use Biometric ID for the cashless system ? Thanks.

Hi. This is my first post here so I hope this is OK, if not feel free to ignore. I work in the dev team for Impact and thought I would help with some of the issues noted below. This task exports any new or updated photos from SIMS to Impact for a non-Biostore school. The ExportPhotos program is a quick utility to get photos out of Impact and save them as files. It doesn't run as a command line program but if there was demand for this as an option when it could be added. Many thanks. Chris