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Explain to them the benefit to the school and ask them to claim it anyway, basically. Thanks. I have seen this one, but as the parent has to fill in the form to check if they're eligible I couldn't see any difference from just getting them to do the form on the LEA's website!

Well its probably apathy rather than malevolence but it's certainly a ridiculous situation; and sadly there's no incentive for the government to fix it. A £50 amazon gift card is actually not too bad a plan; might float that one if this comes to nothing. Any chance you remember what it's called? Or is that the SIMS plug in one I've heard of? Alas; Progresso.

Not without their permission, but the idea is obviously to ask for that. Whether people will give it to us I sort of doubt; at the moment I'm just trying to check if this is even a thing. Yeah that already exists on the LEA's websites; the problem is that there are some people who don't bother checking. In our case my guess is it costs us about £35k a year, so the idea was if our MIS can automatically check then that might capture those students to. Non-uptake of FSM can be up to about 30% of the eligible families apparently.

Hello I've been asked to look into a system that checks FSM eligibility of parents on an ongoing basis. I.E. uses data you hold in your MIS and checks against the government's FSM Eligibility checking service weekly or something for each parent you have in your MIS to see if they've become eligible, and highlights those to you. Anyone ever heard of such a thing? I've searched but all I can find are either totally bespoke (LGFL's) or are still a manual form and don't seem to have any benefit over just encouraging parents to use the LEA's form (OFSM).

Yeah, I guess that would be annoying!

OK so; after a certain amount of "How the hell does this thing work again..."; I can definitely get a Learner's membership of next year's Registration Group, using GetLearnerGroupByLearnerId in the LearnerRecord service and cross referencing GetLearnerGroups in the AcademicData service. So; yes it's possible. Obviously SchoolCloud would need to code for that though.

Progresso API · Apiary You mean that, right? That's the REST one - it's new and better. The old one is soap, i'm afraid I don't have any docs for that either; i'd be surprised if there's not a way though.

Do you know if School Cloud uses the SOAP or REST API? As they're a bit different. I'm pretty sure the REST one lets you fetch future groups and the Learners that are in them but it's been several years since i looked at the other.

Ah, ok. Not used SIMS in any detail so didn't know it worked like that. Do they not get a number before that happens then?

Whilst they're in Draft status, our records show that they have been allocated. They show the student has been admitted when they walk through the door and we mark them as Active. There's a clear way to distinguish which students are in fact on roll, so I don't really see a problem giving them a learner number to make the administration of the intake easier by spreading out the workload of it.

Right, but there's no problem with doing that before the day they walk through the door surely? I'm also kind of intrigued by this one; in Progresso and Facility they just have an Active/Draft flag and if they don't turn up, you hit the delete button and they're gone.

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The new(ish) RESTful API could do it if you were making your own system to display the comments. BM events come out like this, which is all you'd need to hide confidential comments from everyone but the Head and the staff member making them: { "LearnerId": 443790, "Behaviour": "Negative", "IncidentDate": "2017-02-03", "Subject": "AD", "Location": "CLS", "Published": "No", "Creator": "AB", "Assignee": "ASJ", "Status": "Created", "Types": [ "01NCW", "02CG" ], "Comments": [ { "Confidential": true, "Comment": "Asked to go to the toilet and went to the one furthest away just to waste time.", "StaffCode": "AB" }, { "Confidential": false, "Comment": "Spat gum out on floor", "StaffCode": "CS" } ], "Actions": [ "03DB", "10LP" ] } EDIT: Honestly though if comments about behaviour are THAT confidential I feel like they probably belong in CPOMS or something anyway.

To my knowledge you can't do this. I think that the Confidential flag against a comment only stops it from being visible to Parents and the Students themselves when they log in, and not to staff. Possibly you can restrict visibility to certain roles through some wizardry, but I'm fairly sure you can't restrict them to a specific teacher.

Well, these days our admin team just does it themselves actually. No special software - they just name the file after the Learner Code as they save it.

This will be it.

As with bob, the photographers we've used have always handled that themselves; their software names the pictures they take with the Learner Code - all I have to do is use powershell to slap "LNR" at the beginning and that's it. I'd use a different photographer who'll handle it for you.

As bob says, it's pretty easy. You can do SQL restores or alternatively take a backup through Facility's backup tool, then make a fresh install of Facility to the server (same version as you take the backup from!), use Facility's restore tool to restore the backup you just took and then you're basically done. Setup new dsn and cdb's and distribute.

Yep definitely messed up. Try going to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\Report Builder 3.0 and delete MSReportBuilder.exe.config, then relaunch the ClickOnce app. And esteemed friend reckons it's the .NET setup, but that's not User specific is it? ...clutching at straws here

That one should be solvable at least - it's likely just the permissions set for your User Role in Progresso.

OK. I'm out of ideas then. If you can open Report Builder manually though you should be able to load any report that's against your user account in Progresso by just going connecting to the Progresso ReportServer and then going File | Open. You can only see reports connected to your account that way so unfortunately if you wanted to edit any others you'd have to use the Copy button in Progresso first, which will stick the copy into your My Reports folder. Terrible way to do it but might at least let you work till it gets figured out.

Sorry to ask but just in case; it is a hidden folder though - have you got them set to be visible?

Bummer. No idea then I'm afraid. You might try deleting C:\Users\<>\AppData\Local\Apps - a long time ago I had some weird problem with a similar error message and that turned out to be the fix. Be warned that deletes any ClickOnce app they have installed though, so kinda a last resort... EDIT: might also have to run this in cmd after you delete the folder above: rundll32 dfshim CleanOnlineAppCache

Are you using Internet Explorer? The ClickOnce launchers don't work in Chrome or Firefox. Edit: Whoops, didn't read the bit where you answered that already. You could also try downloading the full program instead of the ClickOnce App here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6116 Download and install. You'll need to manually connect to the Progresso Reporting Server url which is https://reporting.progresso.net/Reportserver

I actually think the guide books are not bad. I struggle to find the more obscure ones on the support site so often end up logging a case to ask, but the like common ones seem to be up to date to me. The contextual help button, as you say, is not good.