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The quickest way to get them is to download them from Capita's MyAccount. All schools that use SIMS are entitled to an unlimited number of logins for it. Alternatively logging a call with your Support Unit/Capita as they can easily provide them for you.

You can change the capitalisation of the field in the database through the SIMS front end, but you can't get different capitalisation out the reporting engine from what is in the database.

Capita has a list of registry locations that cache proxy details that SOLUS references (apparently as per Microsoft's instructions). I don't have a copy but if you log a call with your SIMS Support they will be able to go through them with you. When I logged it, Capita did a remote session and whipped through the registry in about 5 minutes.

You would enter marks for individuals via the Edit Marks menu route rather than the register. This way you can see all that student's marks for the day/week including lesson marks if you use Lesson Monitor. Usually, office staff do these as they usually get the phone calls about it, but a school can decide to give class teacher these permissions if needed.

I logged a call about this in the middle of last year and never got a conclusive answer. The gist of what I got back was that commandreporter should use the commandtimeout value specified in the connect.ini stored in the location specified in the c:\Windows\sims.ini file for the SIMSDotNetDirectory. However, they couldn't answer if commandreporter can process redirects or unc paths in either .ini file and in addition there may be "Local conditions" that cause it not to be adhered to, but these were never specified. In my case rather than keep chasing Capita for answers they don't have I divided my report into 2 smaller reports then used a PowerShell script to join the results together to generate the original report, thus removing the need to work out the details. If you want to log your own call with Capita and would like the analyst who picks it up to see what was discovered previously, then point them to case 1708-3662390

From the manual the example it gives is [TABLE="width: 624"] [TR] [TD]CommandReporter /USER:user1 /PASSWORD:abcd /REPORT:"SomeReport" /QUIET [color=#ff0000]/PARAMS:"version ='1.0' encoding= 'utf-8'?>bypass='True'>13 "[/color][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] The effect of this call would be to tell the CommandReporter to ignore the Parameter with id 1 and set the value of parameter 2 to 13. Then run the report. In reality the Command Reporter produces a unique id for each report parameter, this is in the form of an base64 encoded hash value (such as 'AFSC0Yv85p6cl85rhlkKjw==') which identifies the report parameter. So the bit you need is bypass='True'

SIMS ID lite comes as part of the core SIMS license and will do O365 provisioning (the groups things will be implemented shortly) from SIMS data once set up and configured. Ask your support unit about getting it set up for you.

You could always try running the reindex patch over the SIMS database to see if that can give you any performance increase, but a 103 column marksheet will always take a while to load/save.

Hi Rich, I've just spotted your post. SIMS Profiles can generate registration certificates as well as attendance. By far the easiest way is to purchase a Parental communication system like the Parent App that Capita makes which can give regular attendance updates to parents in a builtin widget rather than reports which soon become out of date. (you can offset its cost against the money you'd save from not doing paper printing) Profiles will allow you to bulk create registration certificates and atach them to the DMS.

In SIMS. Report | Design Report -> New Report Data Area: School | Group Data Fields: Group Name, (Subreport) Students [With a filter of Pupil Premium Indicator = True] (the subreport without any data fields will give you a count) Group Filter: Group Type = Year Group Default Output: csv

Ours is a problem with permissions in the Capita One Web server

Some of our schools are having issues too, it started just after the LA applied the latest Capita One Upgrade. We are getting errors in SIMS Services Manager B2B logs saying "User does not have permission to call this webmethod" is that the same error you are getting?

I've been looking into this extensively. Each person in SIMS has an external GUID, this is unique accross every SIMS database. When you sign up to SIMS online services each person is generated a SIMS ID GUID. SIMS ID has been written in such a way that each SIMS ID GUID can be assigned 1 external GUID from each SIMS database (thus if you have duplicates in your SIMS database you need to combine them into a single record first). Each SIMS ID is also assigned a single main database (usually the first one attached to it), so what should happen is: School A sends parent an invite, parent creates a SIMS ID login as part of the invitation progress. School B sends parent an invite, parent uses SIMS ID login created for School A's invitation to accept the invitation from School B. Job done parent has access to both schools offerings. Complications arise if Schools are both using SIMS ID Lite, the adult concerned has more than 1 role (e.g. is also an employee), the person trying to be set up is from an LSU and doesn't exist in the SIMS databases, the SIMS ID account is being associated with a student and contact in the same database (e.g. a 6th form student who is a contact for a Y7)

Both are available on SOLUS3, just ask your Support unit to authorise them for you on S3.

Capita produces a product called SIMS ID that will do it too.

The brackets indicate they are no-longer in a group for the selected field, but the last group they were in is listed in the brackets. It is possible (all be it rare) to get these with students who aren't leavers.

it's recommended to enter this through Routines | Students | Leavers, to ensure all group memberships are ended at the same time. If you do it through panel 11 of the student's record you'll need to also run validate memberships to get the group memberships straight.

Is this parent in your SIMS more than once? (i.e. 2 separate records for staff and contact, you can use the quick search on the home page to ascertain this)

Here is a link to Capita's site where they list all the currently accredited support teams. It's a public website so no login is required, and the full table is at the bottom of the page.

Is SIMS Services Manager, functional, configured and error-free in the logs?

In the latest version of SOLUS 3 (3.12.41) you can specify a priority for workstations so computers that are needed to take registers are done first. Also, Capita confirmed at a regional user group that 3.12.41 was the last currently planned release of SOLUS3 so bar critical bug fixes that aren't caused by local environmental issues there will be no more updates ever to SOLUS3

If the first term has already been done, then clone it for the second term and alter the resultsets or dates depending on what you are using, it will be much faster that way.

My suggestion would be to get the documents before they get uploaded to the DMS, both Assessment Manager Individual Reports and Profiles Reports will bulk export, so you can just dump them in a folder and use that for your portal.

There are already programs out there for sharing reports with parents, like the SIMS Parent App. If you are planning on doing it yourself. how are you handling security? E.g. if one parent has a court order against them, how do you prevent them seeing things on the internet related to the child they have the court order for?

They are all encrypted for security. If you purchase access tot he SIMS APIs you can write a program to interact with them and the Capita APIs will do the decryption for you. Some of them won't have started out as XML files so what is your end goal as there may already be a program out there that does what you want?