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Trackers said in their original post that they wanted to do some test runs first to understand how the system works, I'd agree you wouldn't want to do it in a live system but am working under the assumption that this isn't a live system yet and wanted to minimise the footprint in SIMS by not creating anything additional if it wasn't necessary.

You need to add yourself as a priority 1 or 2 contact to the student's record on SIMS with parental responsability (make sure it is linked to the staff record you onboarded for SIMS Online Services) As you (or another teacher) is already onboarded for Parent App admin you don't need to send another email. You don't need to change your address but you need to set the toggle in the Admin portal to allow contacts who don't live at the same address to see pupils

You don't need their DoB if they aren't eligible for the School Workforce Census

Create a personnel record for the user and then run the dbdiagnosis script associated with patch 18632, then the patch itself. Your SIMS support company will be able to provide you with the details

An alternative could be to use an assessment manager comment aspect and add it as one of your 6 on the Student teacher View so staff can see it on their record.

1. All the patches are on SOLUS3, you just need to take a note of the patch numbers and ask your SIMS support to release them to your school. 2. In SIMS you will need to access the menu route 'Routines | SLG & SIMS Online | Reports' (that's from memory so the working might be slightly different). You will only see it if you have the correct permissions in SIMS and the reporting patch has been applied to SIMS 3. Yes that is part of the process, once you've done that go tot he menu route mentioned in 2. 4. Assuming you are accessing the Parent App as a staff member in SIMS, you can temporarily add your self as a parent for a child to ghost them on the App, just remember to remove your self as soon as you have finished.

I did say theoretically

in the SIMS database, each person has an aggregate_role value. Student is 1 Contact is 2 Employee is 8 System Manager User is 16 etc. So if someone had an aggregate role of 24 (8+16) it would mean they were an employee and a user. There is a glitch somewhere in the system that thinks it is removing a role from some people records who don't have that role, e.g. if the applicant role (128) was erroneously removed from the above example the person would have a role of -104 (24 - 128). This is what the error is referring to.

Why do you have ",50290" after server 1's SQL instance?

It is theoretically possible to do forensic investigation of the SQL database's log file (assuming you don't keep your database in simple recovery mode) using a backup to find the primary key of the entry you are interested in but you'll probably need a 5 day course to learn how then a few days to understand Capita's database schema then a few days to do the investigation. I looked into the possibility a while ago and the school concluded that it would be too expensive an endeavor to undertake.

Unfortunately not, Capita advise keeping regular backups for this sort of thing, not ideal I know but the best Capita can offer for SIMS 7.

there are provisions for exceptional circumstances where it is acceptable to add them manually after the fact or not at all. (e.g. National Security grounds)

SIMS does permissions by user, by that I mean a user can either see contact details for students or they can't. SIMS doesn't have the capability of altering those permissions on a student by student basis. If the address is really that sensitive then I'd suggest removing it from SIMS altogether and use another system with higher permission/security features for storing that 1 piece of information about that student.

It's down to each school's data retention policy. If they have their ex-employee pay details stored in their finance system then they may take the decision that they don't need to know that a particular teacher marked a register 20 years ago and thus delete them from SIMS.

I'm probably being pedantic, but just to clarify a point. A person in SIMS only get the role of "user" once they have been assigned a System Manager login, as the OP was asking how to disable users I had assumed they meant in the SIMS role definition sense and not generically people accounts in SIMS

Focus | System Manager | Manage Users, locate the staff in question, open their record then remove the tick from the active box and save.

Using SIMS alone no. However, if you use their SIMS ID Lite which comes with SIMS then you can use the free Microsoft One Note integration to achieve this.

Alter your connect.ini to read (substituting your own server and database names) [sIMSConnection] ServerName=SchoolA-MIS\SIMS2016 DatabaseName=sims ServerType=SIMSSQL DatabaseMode=OnLine commandtimeout=1000000 [sIMSDatabases] FriendlyName0=School A Server0=SchoolA-MIS\SIMS2016 DatabaseName0=SIMS DatabaseMode0=OnLine FriendlyName1=School B Server1=SchoolB-MIS\SIMS2016 DatabaseName1=sims DatabaseMode1=OnLine FriendlyName2=School C Server2=SchoolC-MIS\SIMS2016 DatabaseName2=SIMS DatabaseMode2=OnLine

We have a script that extracts this (and other) information nightly from SIMS and makes it available in Assessment Manager, it is one of the services we offer our supported schools and another Support unit has also bought a copy from us. If you'd like more info then PM me.

The default location is C:\Program Files (x86)\SIMS\SIMS .net Document Server\SIMSDocumentServer_%ServerName%.config where %ServerName% = the name of the server it was installed on. You can just open this in notepad as it is a very small xml file

you can upgrade SOLUS with SOLUS, if it isn't in your list of upgrades contact your SIMS support provider and ask them to release the SOLUS upgrades to you.

Generate a blank image (open paint and save a white image) of the appropriate size. Write a quick script to copy and rename it to every student's admission number. Use bulk photo import to overwrite the students with the new photo.

I use this as a PowerShell script on the server where the user running the script has single sign-on into SIMS enabled It only works if there is still a copy of the message in either the outbox or inbox of someone in SIMS.

just username will use the local machine's users

Hi round2it. Yes SOLUS3 does work with non-domain machines, we usually get the local admin account for the PC and push the SOLUS3 client on from the server as the username and password SOLUS asks for when installing clients is local to each machine, usually with domain workstations this is the same for all as we use a domain admin with local admin permissions.