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From the timetable plugin file that is downloaded, there's 4 files in it. This folder should be extracted the the main HAP+ root folder, whereby a Timetable.aspx file in the the root; a HAP.Timetable.dll inside the "bin" folder; Timetables.RptDef and timetables.xml files in the "App_Data" folder. The API that is shown in the server URL isn't a folder as such, just a service created when HAP+ runs.

After speaking to the SIMS service desk, they let me know the following needed to be done: In SOLUS3, go to: Environment > Target > Services Select the product - SIMS file server - then press edit Server name is the name of server that hosts the mapped sims drive Installation path = true name of mapped drive (do not use mapped drive letter) e.g. D:\Admin Data\SIMS After correcting, re-deploy upgrade (Upgrades > Deployment History > Select update > Redeploy) choosing only the file server from the list of available targets Our problem lay in step 4, as we had the mapped drive letter in place. Not sure if there's a KB for this, but thanks to Terry O. on the service desk for sorting it for me.

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Hi, Not sure if you're still having problems with this, but here's how I've got it working at our end (after a bit of backward engineering - YMMV). Change the values as needed to fit your environment and try accessing the URLs (you will be prompted to log in to HAP+ first if you aren't). The HAP+ timetable plugin calls the API URL: https:///hap/api/timetable/LoadUser When accessed manually this only seems to return [], an empty request, so the timetable page doesn't know what to display. If it does the same for you, try using the alternate API URL (below in code), which should return a timetable (prettified here) in the following format: https:///hap/api/timetable/LoadUser/ [ { "Day":1, "Lessons":[ { "Description":"Biology", "EndTime":"09:55", "Name":"10SS1\/Bi", "Period":"1Mon:1", "Room":"BIO", "SortRef":"1Mon:1", "StartTime":"08:55", "Teacher":"[Redacted]", "UPN":"[Redacted]", "YearGroup":"10" }, { "Description":"Mathematics", "EndTime":"10:55", "Name":"10a\/Ma1", "Period":"1Mon:2", "Room":"11", "SortRef":"1Mon:2", "StartTime":"09:55", "Teacher":"[Redacted]", "UPN":"[Redacted]", "YearGroup":"10" }, // Snip... { "Description":"Spanish", "EndTime":"13:10", "Name":"10A2\/Sp1", "Period":"1Fri:4", "Room":"EX2", "SortRef":"1Fri:4", "StartTime":"12:10", "Teacher":"[Redacted]", "UPN":"[Redacted]", "YearGroup":"10" }, { "Description":"Biology", "EndTime":"16:00", "Name":"10SS1\/Bi", "Period":"1Fri:6", "Room":"BIO", "SortRef":"1Fri:6", "StartTime":"15:00", "Teacher":"[Redacted]", "UPN":"[Redacted]", "YearGroup":"10" } ] } ] If it does, then it should just be a case of modifying a line in the Timetable.aspx file, which should be located in the root of the HAP+ server (probably C:\inetpub\wwwroot\hap\Timetable.aspx). The usual warnings apply here, such as taking a backup of the file, use the code at your own risk, this modifies a core file so may break on updates, etc... Open the file in your favourite text editor, and look at line 32. It should read: url: hap.common.formatJSONUrl('~/api/Timetable/LoadUser'), Change it to be: url: hap.common.formatJSONUrl('~/api/Timetable/LoadUser[b]/<%=((HAP.AD.User)Membership.GetUser()).UserName %>[/b]'), Then save the file and reload the timetable page. You should have a timetable showing for the student you've logged in as. Note: Also check that the file generated by HAP+ looks like the following (located at C:\inetpub\wwwroot\hap\App_Data\timetables.xml): // Snip...

@ITGURU thanks. However, SOLUS3 for us reports that the file server was successfully installed. I'll give the service desk a call too and see if they have any ideas.

Thanks @PhilNeal. I've had a look at the KB articles (wasn't sure what to search for earlier) and yes, we are a SOLUS3 user. KB87969 and KB-420075 mention about a SIMS directory. I have 2 on our S: (SIMS) drive, both of which only contain a few files from 2013 (including the What's New file that appears). The sims.ini files point to these locations. Running the KB-423182 file SIMSCentralServerSetup.exe from our SIMS server, with a path of S: and S:\SIMS shows progress happening, but nothing seems to get updated. The file shows a modified date of 2013, so I'm not sure if that is why it's not pulling through additional documentation. Pressing the 'Documentation' button in SIMS then shows a "Document Index File missing..." message in the bottom left. I have had a look on SOLUS3, but can't find anything relating to "File Server settings" under any menu.

Hi all, Have just updated to the SIMS Spring 2016 release, which seems to have gone well. However, whenever a SIMS user logs in after the update the "What's New" PDF file that opens up is for the "SIMS 2013 Summer 2 Release" and not the expected one (Video of newly created account: https://goo.gl/photos/hy1u9gD1X8y7Q4jV7). Although this isn't causing any problems, some staff (those that didn't just close it) have asked why we're only on the 2013 version. Going to Help > About SIMS.net shows the correct version number. Anyone else had this happen before, or is it just something weird that's set up on our end? Thanks in advance

@nickbro Thanks for letting me know. I thought that may be the case, but you've saved me from having to check. @DPenfold Thanks for clarifying. It sounds like you're trying to do something that we'll need to do here for the iPads for the little people (primary years), where to save time the app will always log in to the same account. One of the features of the app is that it can be set up in different modes (not shown in the video, but it's there in initial setup). You'd want it set up in 'single' mode whereby it always logs in to the same account, no matter who is using it. This is still being developed, but it'll be fully working soon. However, the only way to remove this account from the device would be to uninstall the app, which I'm assuming is disabled on them, so wouldn't be easilly changeable to a staff member logon account between loans. Let me think about this one and see if I can come up with a way around it, perhaps a logout option but you need to type in a domain admin account before it could be removed (sort of like removing a PC from the domain). More information about the modes can be found here: https://github.com/stuajnht/HAP-for-iOS/blob/develop/FAQ.md#what-option-should-i-choose-after-the-initial-setup-personal-shared-or-single You also bring up about syncing folders and photos. Like the HAP+ Windows app, it doesn't support offline use so when browsing the drives it always pulls off the latest version from the HAP+ server; there isn't really any 'syncing'. Files have to be manually up/downloaded to/from the app. I can't see a way around this either, as the app doesn't know how your folder structure is set up, so wouldn't know where to put anything automatically, sorry.

Currently if a student is blocked (by modifying line 40 in the web.config file, steps here: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/home-access-plus/161983-excluding-users-hap-access.html) then the app logs them in but doesn't load any drives. I'll have a look at trying to stop them logging in for the next test version.

In theory, yes. However some movies exported from iMovie do not seem to upload properly, whereas videos saved to the video library and uploaded that way work. I haven't tried with GarageBand yet.

Hi all, Over the last few months I've been working on creating an iOS app for Home Access Plus+, mostly in part due to staff asking how to get their files off the devices (we already had HAP+ set up, why look for anything else?). While the web interface is good, trying to get a class full of 7 year olds to use it is a little bit difficult. Although there's still a number of features to be included, logging in, browsing files and up/downloading them is working well. The project is located here if you want to take a look: https://github.com/stuajnht/HAP-for-iOS Sample screenshots from the app can be found here: https://goo.gl/photos/6Ptp4J1woojWuUik9, and a YouTube demo is here: Anyway, to cut a long story short, the app is now in a stable enough state that it's available for testing through Apple's TestFlight program (https://developer.apple.com/testflight). If anyone out there would like to participate in the testing, offer feedback and see what you can break, please PM me and I'll pass on more details (namely I'll need an email address of some sort to send the initial instructions over (doesn't have to be your Apple ID, just an account to send stuff to) - I'm not aware of a way to send emails directly to Edugeek accounts, sorry). Thanks for reading. Update: 2017-06-01 The App is now available from the App Store. Please see this post for more information: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/home-access-plus/164699-home-access-plus-ios-app-request-testers-2.html#post1581846

I believe I have found out what was causing this for our server (not sure if it'll help you @rjs_essex but it's worth a shot) but for the past few days it's been stable as it should be. After the server crashed again, I believed that it had to be due to some files being accessed. I came to this conclusion as 1) it didn't crash over the weekend when there wasn't anybody accessing any files and 2) it was a service that looked after files and shares that was crashing. To start off with I looked for ways to check that all share permissions were set correctly. I came across Recursively obtain a list of all permissions on Windows file shares - Server Fault which gave a few tools to use, along with Cjwdev | NTFS Permissions Reporter. However, running these on my local computer took a while, and the amount of data that was produced was too much to be able to used at all, so even trying to run this on a file server was already a no-go. My next idea came from thinking that it had to be a particular file or set of files that were causing it to crash. Therefore I looked into logging file access through the built in Windows file auditing tools and the results being logged through event viewer (here's one such guide: Audit File Access and Change in Windows | Splunk Blogs, more resources can be found on https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=windows+server+log+files+accessed) but I couldn't seem to get it to log properly in event viewer. I decided then to use Everything as I have used it in the past to perform quick searches of files, and it includes the dates files were last modified. You can download the portable version and run that. Let it build its index, which if it's a file server will take a bit of time. I'd advise you that "Everything" should be closed and opened again, as this saves it having to rebuilt the index if you need to force power off the server. If you've been keeping a log of the approximate times the server has been going down, then you can run a search in "Everything" for a particular date (use dm:, see: Searching), then sort the columns by date modified, which will take a long time... so grab a coffee or something. When the list is sorted, scroll down to find the time that the server stopped responding (there should be a jump of a few minutes between the last file accessed and the next file while the server rebooted, whereas all files preceding the crash will be accessed many times per minute). Once you have found this, make a note of the last 20 files or so accessed in an Excel document before the server stopped working, and then perform the search again but for the next date and time it crashed at. Repeat as many times as needed. Hopefully by this point you should have a table with a few files that appear over the course of the crashes, and some that are accessed pretty much every time the server goes down. As the server going down for me holds the users home directories, I just put their usernames in, such as the example below: [TABLE=class: grid, width: 500] [TR] [TD]User[/TD] [TD]Crash 1[/TD] [TD]Crash 2[/TD] [TD]Crash 3[/TD] [TD]Crash 4[/TD] [TD]Crash n[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]j.smith[/TD] [TD]y[/TD] [TD]y[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]b.hope[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]y[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]y[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]a.name[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]y[/TD] [TD]y[/TD] [TD]y[/TD] [TD]y[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]u.getit[/TD] [TD]y[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]y[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] This should give you a fair idea on what files or users may be causing the problem. In this example, "a.name" is looking like a possible cause. You now need to check to see if this detective work is correct or not. Run "Everything" again, without any search parameters but sorted by the date modified column. This will list the most recent file access at the top of the screen, with it automatically moving the older accessed files further down the page. Keep this running until there is a crash with the server again. If you are RDP'd into the server, take a screenshot to check later after the server is rebooted, otherwise make a note of the last file accessed, then reboot the server. This should correspond to one of the files that have been flagged up in the table you made earlier. If it is, browse to the offending file (or folder if there's many files) and move it off the server to somewhere it can't be accessed, and ideally let the user(s) who's file it is know that you have moved it. Keep monitoring the server through "Everything" to make sure that it's still working as it should be, and that there are no more files causing it to stop working properly. If there are, move them off as needed. Hopefully the server should then be fine and running as normal. For the record, our server crashes were caused by Firefox Portable that a sixth former student had downloaded, but I do not think this would be the problem, just that there was something fishy going on with the files. Cross checking their logon times with their timetable, every time they had a free period they would open Firefox, and the server would go down.

Hi all, We've been having a problem with one of our servers over the past week. The LanmanServer service keeps hanging, and once it does it can't be restarted through the services MMC or using taskkill without force restarting the whole server (normal shutdown / restart just wait on the 'Restarting' screen). When it hangs, file shares become unresponsive and users are not able to log on or access files. There is nothing obvious logged in the event logs leading up to the problem, and it happens at random times during the day (it's happened twice within an hour and a half today, and not just when students are logging on for lessons). The server is fully responsive if you log into the console via Hyper-V manager (through RDP does not work) and there are no spikes or high usage logged in task manager or resource montor. I have tried to log it through Process Monitor, but it crashes out and doesn't save the backing files. Over the weekend this problem was not happening (as in I could browse file shares throughout the weekend, but there weren't any other users on the network) and all of our servers were restarted just in case there was something funny going on between them. The server in question is a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V client, running AD, DNS and user home file shares, and the problem started last Tuesday. I have only been able to find one other question like this on the Internet, located here Windows Server Enterprise server service flakes out - Stack Overflow Members of our SMT are now asking what is causing it and for it to be resolved, but so far all that definitely fixes the problem for a temporary measure is force restarting the server which obviously isn't ideal. Any help or advice will be appreciated. Please ask if you need more information or clarifications.

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Thanks for making the changes... will these be available in a future release, or can it be installed as-is? Unfortunately can't help much with the problem of the files locking open (haven't noticed it here), but I did notice that when using IE it would throw a script error and not load the DirectEdit software. Chrome and FF work without any problem at all. I've currently added this code to the DirectEdit.aspx file, which seems to allow it to work properly: <br /> // Allowing the URI to run in IE, as it throws an error: script 122 the data area passed to a system call is too small<br /> //http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/4cdae2c4-581c-4a87-b321-db70727cd188<br /> //http://stackoverflow.com/a/13979566 - IE iframe<br /> //http://stackoverflow.com/a/9851769 - IE detection<br /> var isIE = /*@cc_on!@*/false || !!document.documentMode;<br /> if (isIE) {<br /> $('<iframe />', {<br /> 'id': 'hiddenIFrame',<br /> 'name': 'hiddenIFrame',<br /> 'src': 'hap://<%=hap%>',<br /> 'style': 'display: none;'<br /> }).appendTo("body");<br /> } else {<br /> // Run the URI normally, Chrome, FF, etc...<br /> location.href = "hap://<%=hap%>";<br /> }<br /> Not sure if it's the right way to do it, or if there's something funny going on at my end.

I've just installed HAP v10 and would like to thank Nick again on creating a great product. Playing around with the new features in v10 I've spotted the DirectEdit option and enabled it by default for all users (from: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/home-access-plus/139919-globally-enable-direct-edit.html). In the past, there have been staff that haven't read the warning when double clicking a file, about using 'save as' and to upload it again, then complained that the system isn't working when the changes they made aren't there when they log back in the next day. I was just wondering if it was possible that when a file is double clicked for the file types that DirectEdit supports (and DirectEdit is enabled), if a message could be displayed first asking the user if they want to "edit the file in (name of default program)" or to "download file". Depending on what is selected, the relevant task then happens. If a message box isn't feasible, an 'Edit' option could be displayed on the blue bar at the top. I am aware that the option to either download or edit is available via right-click, but most users will forget if I tell them about it, will never right-click it, or just double click the file as they are used to. I've tried to attach an example of what it may look like, although my photo editing skills aren't up to much. P.S. What file types does DirectEdit support? I'm assuming all of the default MS Office ones.

Thanks very much for the speedy reply and code update Nick, this now works perfectly.

Hi. Firstly, I'd just like to congratulate Nick on creating such a fantastic system, and sharing it with everyone. We've only started using it this school term, and everyone's saying how great it is. These forums have also helped with some of the problems we've faced. However, there seems to be a problem with the booking system for staff members. When a domain admin books a room, they get a calendar event sent to them, and the booking is shown in the grid. If a 'normal' staff member books a room, it doesn't send an email or show on the grid. It does, though, get logged in ~/App_Data/Bookings.xml with a lesson of 'null'. Although we're not currently booking rooms, it would be a nice feature to get working. I'm fairly sure that everything else is correct. Thanks.