jmshillito

The RTF report works fine, either from REPORTS, or (for individual students) from Linked Documents. I tried converting the RTF to mailmerge but it needs to use a NEXTIF record rule, which involves using a different dataset (I believe). I am going to create an Excel file and try to merge against student ID for the NextIf rule.

I have modified the Data Collection report in SIMS and used a mailmerge template so I can email to parents. It cannot deal properly with the linked contacts, which are sub records of the main (primary) email address I am sending to - e.g. 1 child might have 3 linked contacts, another might have 6. I would like all the linked contacts to be shown on the one data collection sheet sent to the primary email of the parent: (See attachment) - does anyone have any ideas apart from using Excel? John

I would like to create a 6 period day Monday-Thursday, but have 8 periods on a Friday for the upper school. Is there a way to do this without creating an 8 period cycle for all years and using blanking codes? It would make the timetable display untidy on our parent web portal...

Thanks again - I have already created a separate block for LS/Sp (N.B. there are 6 slots in the timetable for these, even though students will only take 3 of them) - however, in order to do this I also had to modify the other blocks to have 6 periods, (6x6)+6 = 42 periods in the week. Since the students only take 3, I had to then create another block of En/Ma and give it 3 periods. Of course, once I place the LS/Spo in the block I then have to arrange a clash when the other block is placed on the same period. What I really should do is try to convert this structure to a "traditional" block structure!

Hmm - I am not seeing that. When I click RELAX I don't have any alternative choices, and the timetable doesn't appear below the orange bars. The orange bars show the 6 blocks, but only the Options, not the LS/Sport. Looking at student timetables, I can see the LS/Sport at the times scheduled in NT6 - but I can't switch these times (and in any case, if I was to drag a "LS" to a different slot, could I then replace it with the option class??). E.g. Geography is shown as Day2 Period 7 but should be Sport. Sport shows as Day3 Period 2. If I could drag Sport from D3:P2 to D2:p7, could I then drag Geography to D3:P2? I suspect this structure might be difficult to model, as there is a pre-determined LifeSkills/Sport timetable, and the Core/Options timetable fits on top. In other words, a student in block1 (let's say, Geography is his block 1 choice) takes 2 periods of Lifeskills at any 2 of 6 periods, and a period of sport at any 1 of 4 periods. Another student in block 1 is taking IT, but takes his 3 periods at different times to the first student. Sorry if this is unclear: if you like I can try to send some more graphics? Thanks again for the advice so far.

Many thanks - I am trying this, but can't see (in Pupil Curriculum) how to assign a student a different class from the one his option is "tied" to. Am I looking in the wrong place? Thanks again..

Is it possible to have an "open block" structure in NovaT? This would involve a block which contains core subjects (7 periods per week), options (6 periods), and Lifeskills/Sport? A student gets 3x core (21 periods), 3x options (18 periods), 2 Life Skills and 1 sport. For example (I added 1 period of LS or Sport to the options to make the block periods correct): [TABLE=width: 500] [TR] [TD] [TABLE=width: 630] [TR] [TD]Block1 [/TD] [TD]Block 2 [/TD] [TD]Block 3 [/TD] [TD]Block 4 [/TD] [TD]Block 5 [/TD] [TD]Block 6 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]En7 [/TD] [TD]En7 [/TD] [TD]En7 [/TD] [TD]En7 [/TD] [TD]En7 [/TD] [TD]En7 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Ma7 [/TD] [TD]Ma7 [/TD] [TD]Ma7 [/TD] [TD]Ma7 [/TD] [TD]Ma7 [/TD] [TD]Ma7 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Sc7 [/TD] [TD]Sc7 [/TD] [TD]Sc7 [/TD] [TD]Sc7 [/TD] [TD]Sc7 [/TD] [TD]Sc7 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Ge6 Ls1 [/TD] [TD]SS6 Ls1 [/TD] [TD]Mv6 Ls1 [/TD] [TD]Hi6 Ls1 [/TD] [TD]Te6 Ls1 [/TD] [TD]Cs6 Ls1 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]IT6 Ls1 [/TD] [TD]Ar6 Ls1 [/TD] [TD]Bs6 Ls1 [/TD] [TD]Bs6 Ls1 [/TD] [TD]Cr6 Ls1 [/TD] [TD]He6 Ls1 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Te6 Sp1 [/TD] [TD]Mu6 Sp1 [/TD] [TD]Ec6 Sp1 [/TD] [TD]Ac6 Sp1 [/TD] [TD]Ww6 Sp1 [/TD] [TD]Fn6 Sp1 [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] The problem is, students take their subjects in blocks 1 to 6, so may have En in Block1, Maths in Block2 etc. When they take the option subject, they may NOT actually take Lifeskills, but could be placed in Sport. The advantage is that with only 2 Lifeskills and 1 Sports teacher, all the students can be taught. However, I can't see a way to create this structure in NovaT The 6 day cycle looks like this: [TABLE=width: 500] [TR] [TD] [TABLE=width: 654] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]Day1 [/TD] [TD]Day2 [/TD] [TD]Day3 [/TD] [TD]Day4 [/TD] [TD]Day5 [/TD] [TD]Day6 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=align: right]1 [/TD] [TD=align: right][/TD] [TD]Block1 [/TD] [TD]Block2 [/TD] [TD]Block3 [/TD] [TD]Block4 [/TD] [TD]Block5 [/TD] [TD]Block6 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=align: right]2 [/TD] [TD=align: right][/TD] [TD]Block1 [/TD] [TD]Block2 [/TD] [TD]Block3 [/TD] [TD]Block4 [/TD] [TD]Block5 [/TD] [TD]Block6 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=align: right]3 [/TD] [TD=align: right][/TD] [TD]Block2 [/TD] [TD]Block3 [/TD] [TD]Block4 [/TD] [TD]Block5 [/TD] [TD]Block6 [/TD] [TD]Block1 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=align: right]4 [/TD] [TD=align: right][/TD] [TD]Block3 [/TD] [TD]Block4 [/TD] [TD]Block5 [/TD] [TD]Block6 [/TD] [TD]Block1 [/TD] [TD]Block2 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=align: right]5 [/TD] [TD=align: right][/TD] [TD]Block4 [/TD] [TD]Block5 [/TD] [TD]Block6 [/TD] [TD]Block1 [/TD] [TD]Block2 [/TD] [TD]Block3 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=align: right]6 [/TD] [TD=align: right][/TD] [TD]Block5 [/TD] [TD]Block6 [/TD] [TD]Block1 [/TD] [TD]Block2 [/TD] [TD]Block3 [/TD] [TD]Block4 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=align: right]7 [/TD] [TD=align: right][/TD] [TD]Block6 [/TD] [TD]Block1 [/TD] [TD]Block2 [/TD] [TD]Block3 [/TD] [TD]Block4 [/TD] [TD]Block5 [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Any ideas if this can be done in any way that can be imported into SIMS??!!