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The best you can do is define an aspect for those data items and add them as data review columns on the templates then set up a routine to copy the data from SIMS STAR fields to those aspects. It doesn't help for the registers though.

We eventually got Capita to 'solve' it for 1 of our schools through a convoluted (and so far un-replicateable) process of uninstalling and re-installing things and then matching database entries and altering install files. There is still no Knowledge Base article on the subject and we have several other schools with the same issue all logged with Capita still pending.

There is a Position formula which will tell you where in the marksheet a grade falls, but this will give a different value per student. Yes there are plenty of ways of finding the info, just not storing it in a column

In short you can't easily, what are you trying to achieve? Usually each row is a student's data, so displaying a column count for a marksheet would continually get changes as different people open different marksheets for the same pupil (e.g. class teacher and head of department viewing the course marksheet)

You could create 2 SIMS.net reports, one for Contacts (filtered by relationship to pupil = mother or father or whatever elese you want) and one for staff, outputting to excel. Then manually copy one in to the other to get them all in 1 spreadsheet.

my answer to this forum post is also a possibility.

You can find a list of Capita SIMS accredited school photographers here, if you are using one of these, then they can provide you with everything needed to bulk import their pictures, if you aren't using one of them, then you'll need to get your own bulk import license from Capita and make sure the pictures are in the correct format, size and name.

No you can't re-set the conduct system in SIMS in that manner, however what we've done for a few schools is implement a system where by the behavior points and Achievement points are piped out via command reporter to a formatted XML file (in the format of an assessment manager results file) which then populates an assessment template each night allowing the schools to do what they want with the values and easily report on them in most areas of SIMS. One school allows students to spend their achievement points for rewards, another wanted a half termly total recording, etc.

The SOLUS3 Agent and the SOLUS3 Agent UI are 2 different processes on a workstation. If one user logs in and loads the UI then no-other users can see it logged in to that machine unless they both log out first. Therefore you could write a script that ends the UI task.

I don't know about CMIS as I haven't used it in years, but for SIMS you may find this helpful for reporting: http://simspublications.com/767431/assets/Report.pdf or more generally this site Home

Generally you only want to delete staff who have never arrived at your school for whatever reason. If they are a duplicate then you want to merge them (see attached document on how), the patch is available on SOLUS 3 but you'll have to contact your SIMS support for the DBDiagnosis script. Merging is much easier than deleteing staff record with history and it even works with SIMS Dinner Money now as well.SIMS Database Employee Merge Utility.pdf

Dynamic group are stored in the discover backup file and can be easily restored if lost by any means.

Among the schools I support we have a whole mix, some with multiple years in 1 reg group, some with reg group named after planets that move up with the students, some where they use the staff code for the registration group name and some where they have things like 7Purple, 8Purple, etc.

Have you seen the new interventions section of SIMS due to be int he Spring release I think. That will allow you to record attendance interventions, then you could pull it directly on to your report. https://davidpott.com/2016/09/07/sims-interventions/

Another thing you could do is store the "Data Present" and "Missing" results in an aspect and run a report near the end of the data collection process to tell you who has ignored the large red box.

The best you can do is add validation and highlight the cell with missing data in a color (typically red). Using a nested if then else it would be something like this:- If => "0" Then "Data Present" else If = "3" then "Missing"(colored red) Also color

"How do I get SIMS Discover?SIMS Discover is included as part of your current SIMSAssessment suite subscription. To find out more aboutgetting up and running with SIMS Discover, contact yourlocal SIMS Support Team, or call us on 0844 893 9000." quoted from http://www.capita-sims.co.uk/files/sims/downloads/capita_sims_-_product_brochure_-_sims_discover_-_nov15.pdf

We have a lot of schools who import what seems to be ever increasing number of assessment manager results files from other system on a regular basis. All they have to do is Routines | Data In | Assessment | Import, select the file, click next, next, select all, next and finish. They never need to alter any of the settings or match students (there is another process in place to make sure they match) but even so they have to spend a couple of minutes for each file. Does any one know of any way to automate this with a script? I well versed in transforming XML files so if the data is needed for a tool as a csv I can always write a script to convert it, but everything that is needed for successful import is contained the assessment manager results file. Does anyone know of any companies that import assessment data in to SIMS who may have such a tool?

If you use ConnectionType=TrustedAuto then staff won't even see the login box to click OK, it will just go straight in to SIMS

Then I'd highly recommend installing it, it is a great piece of software. It's part of the SIMS core so you've already paid for it.

SIMS Discover has the functionality you describe, the reason you can't find anything may be because other people find Discover sufficient.

Check the SIMS Service Manager on the SIMS Server, look at the TeacherApp logs. They should point you to the issue.

They won't upgrade until you schedule the SOLUS 3.11 upgrade from within SOLUS 3

It's only got 24 votes in the last 2 years so is unlikely to be high on Capita's priority list. Generally Change Requests with 50+ votes get the attention.

Depending on exactly what they are trying to achieve, you may wan to look in to SIMS Primary Curriculum. It doesn't have the depth of a timetable, in that it won't tell you what room you need to be in when, but it will allow you to generate for example English classes with an assigned teacher and group of students. So assuming they don't want to also use Cover and Lesson Monitor, then it may be worth investigating.