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The link above is an old one. here is what we tell our schools. Within SOLUS3 under ‘Environment | Configure Workstations | sims.ini’ there is a link to a file which defines what lines are to be added to the C:\Windows\sims.ini file on each workstation. When SIMS is launched it reads the SIMSDirectory variable and configures the documentation button to point to %SIMSDirectory%\Documentation\index_main_eng_sec.html e.g. \\mis01\sims_share$\SIMS\Documentation\index_main_eng_sec.html As long as your server had the correct SIMSDirectory location during the last upgrade, and you workstations have an up to date sims.ini with the correct SIMSDirectory location defined and the user logged on to the machine has access to the unc path then they will be able to access the correct documentation. If the path was wrong on the server then correct it manually and also in SOLUS3 under 'Environment | Targets | Services' -> 'SIMS File Server' (The installation path should be local path to the UNC path the other machines use)

It is possible to do as we offer this as a service to the schools we support, but to make it maintainable by the school it needs tailoring to the assessment aspects each school use (as they are usually all different unless you are dealing with MATs etc.). The way I do it is with a config file containing the aspect and result set combinations required for the current assessment period, then a PowerShell script that iterates over each line in the config file looking for missing marks by running CommandReporter with dynamic parameters, the script then collates the results of missing marks together for each staff member and emails them with a summary (i.e. in has assessment results missing, please open marksheet and fill these in.

Has anyone applied the Autumn SIMS upgrade yet? Are there any issues to be aware of? (I've heard rumors of issues with NOVA-T but nothing concrete and no-one seems to know what the supposed issues are)

you can create a report in SIMS to identify who filled them in and when. (Recorded By, Recorded On) l Data area: Student - Population: On rolll Data Fields: for lesson marks of each student where Date is 7 Nov 2019: Mark, Date, Comments, Minutes Late, Class, Subject, Teacher, Room, Recorded By, Recorded On, Period Description, Dayl Filter Students where: Forename is '' [?] "Forename " and Legal Surname begins with '' [?] "Legal Surname begins with"l Use the default sort order: Surname, Legal Forename

In SIMS, if you go to 'Focus | System Manager | User Access Log', put the 'From' date back to 1980 and enter the username in the box and hit search. SIMS will then tell you when that username logged in.

SIMS keeps an audit of everyone who has ever logged in to SIMS (and sometimes a little more information about where they went) which is what prevents them being deleted. If you want to get rid of them you can merge them with an existing staff member's account using a patch.

Yes you can store almost anything in SIMS Assessment Manager. You just need to have or create the appropriate aspects, result sets and templates.

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We've found that since moving to SQL2016 that our reports now timeout after 300 seconds, I logged it in Feb 2019 and Capita are still investigating. If you open a command prompt and run the script that generates your report manually do you see any other messages/errors? If it's a PowerShell script then you may want to re-direct all the output from CommandReporter.exe to a log file to get a better view of what's going on and when. I'd also put an output of the current time before and after running CommandReporter.exe in the log file.

Try something like this in PowerShell? Get-Content .\test.csv | Set-Content -Encoding utf8 test-utf8.csv

you want to look in the fmsconnect.ini fr the FMS details, the connect.ini only hold the SIMS details.

If the school gets an ATF from their LA then it can populate this area without a CTF being imported, so it's not always an accurate method.

There is a "Chat Now" option on their website https://www.capita-sims.co.uk/partner-with-us, (during working hours) you could ask them what number to call.

If all you want is their attendance data form previous schools/years and you subscribe to FFT then you can download all the information about your student's histories from FFT and import it in to an aspect in Assessment Manager for analysis/reporting.

We had this a while ago. If memory serves me correctly we resolved it by changing the behavior of Excel to open a new instance of Excel for each document rather than re-use the open one.

yes, though only to bits relevant to the modules they are using.

If you use UNC paths in your C:\Windows\sims.ini file for the SIMSDirectory then only SIMS version 6 modules will need a mapped drive, if you don't use UNC paths then you'll also need them for anyone who does attendance mail merge letters.

Capita don't support SQL 2019 and it's not on their road-map yet as to when they will support it (if ever)

If you have a license for it and permissions in MyAccount then there is a download link within MyAccount (https://myaccount.capita-cs.co.uk/) that will let you download it. If you can't find the link then contact your Capita Account Manager and check you have the needed license/permissions. (Details of your Capita account manager can be found within MyAccount in the account profiles section)

According to the latest Capita roadmap, Office 2019 won't be supported until the Summer 2020 release of SIMS. Having said that, it sounds like your file association of xml files isn't going to the MS office XML handler application but instead is associated with a web browser which is why you are seeing the raw XML. There are various guides around you can Google about re-associating XML files with MS Office.

if you save the file then double click on it from explorer, what does it open in?

Do you have any other system that can create the sort of alert you desire (e.g. Impero, etc.) as you could set up a scheduled tasks to trigger it for specific machines based on a quick automated report from SIMS.

I've not come across that one before. The process starts in SIMS Services Manager, I'd suggest looking over the logs SSM produces to see if there are any errors there. I'd also recommend logging a call with your SSU/Capita now as you can always cancel it if you sort the issue before they get back to you.

I work for a SIMS support unit and we've done it for some of our schools (which as we support multiple sites has complicated the process). The help site (https://id.sims.co.uk/support/) is reasonable, and we currently have 5 schools using various bits of the integration with O365 etc. There was quite a bit of back and forth with Capita, where by we had to do something, then log a call for them to do something, wait then do the next task but they are slowly automating processes or making them self-service through their website. Were there any particular things you wanted to know?

You can only do it for future academic years, once you have started an academic year you can't remove years. You'll need to create the next academic year (which you can do now) and remove it from next year's structure