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Is it possible to have more than one period/day structure? We have an AP that has a different schedule, but this is causing issues with staff timetables as the periods do not line up. Scomis, our support provider, say no. I have read snippets here and there that say yes, but do not elaborate. Is this possible? We can't be the only school to have an alternative provision on a different timetable. Our "timetabler" has washed his hands of it so it falls to IT as per usual

Oh in case anyone is looking for the CSV headers, ParentPay do not make it easy to find this info, spreadsheet attached Manual Upload Template - PUPIL.xls

We were happy with Scomis for SIMS support so it wasn't a big jump for us to go with them for Bromcom. A few snags haven't been ironed our since October, which might be one of the reasons they are exiting the hosting biz for Bromcom. Sucks I will have to go back to all our 3rd parties to update our integrations and PowerBi reports... the URL won't be bromcom.scomis.org

They are exiting the hosting market soon

Bit of the tread bump. As of this morning, our ParentPay upload are still working... There is no settings in our Bromcom for it though. I am trying to find a template CSV for our pre-admissions. I think because we are Scomis hosted (for now) this hasn't been turned off properly...

Yep the IT dept (I.e. me) is busier than ever, but the tools are so much more powerful now

They have had a few outages and performance issues in a short period of time. It's generally fine, massively better than SIMS IMO

I recall hearing about Nextgen... 2016 was it?

Oh, 102% uptime then!

"100% uptime" when users can't do a register 😑

Can confirm. Not exactly an ideal work around. Most of our users are fine, only a few have reported it. I added cover permission, it started working for an affected user. We will never know the cause - there will be a vague statement, lessons learned, never happen again etc.

We're running through our old stock of projectors and replacing with 75" IWBs. They are a no brainer now, integrated touch, sound, calibration always perfect. Laser in halls, both are 5 years old and still as bright as usual. Clean or replace the filters in summer

Thanks. I put my thinking hat on and found all the data I need from 23-25 in the Behaviour and non-basic Student data domains. I am have been impressed with reporting in Bromcom, live data etc. Lightyears ahead of SIMS

Hi, we don't have vision, but I have the odata feed, however it is only current academic year. I am thinking I need to do a report and make the data accessible via URL (or just CSV it once as it won't change) but was hoping that someone has done the brain work already!

We've made some nice reports using odata into Power Bi but it appears the records are only for one academic year. Has anyone figured out how to export previous years data for comparison purposes? I think I will need to mirror most of the Students and BehaviourEventRecords tables

Our 365 integration has been broken since day one in October as we are hosted by Scomis. Bromcom don't seem in a rush to fix this for us. It was nice of them to break it for everyone else so I don't feel left out!

The messaging is poor. Issues cropping up are just the nature of cloud services though. "Cloud is just someone else's ****** computer" I can't count the number of times our SIMS fell over for **reasons**. Every workstation/server update brought some headache. Bromcom hosted on Scomis was fine for us during this period.

Even 3 x 1920 pixel wide screens doesn't show it all in an acceptable manner. I don't really know how NT6 works but I've seen the timetables on it, it's neat and tidy. My timetabler wants to have a look at the demo version of your software too

Our timetabler couldn't get round the fact he can't see the two week cycle on one page in wTimetable... I don't really understand the problem but then I know nothing about timetabling. Are you able to make minor adjustments in Bromcom when the timetable is from NT6?

Rather than start a new thread I'll ask here if nobody minds? We're using Bromcom since October half term and our timetabler wants to continue using NT6. While this isn't really a me problem, any potential future issues might be. Does anyone know of any gotchas with using NovaT6 as the exclusive timetable software for Bromcom?

In the same boat really. In your setup, where do you point your download path? We have user home shares which we redirect downloads, documents, pictuers etc. Already done Entra Cloud Sync I would have thought that the benefit of KFM was not having to map drives and folders on login however, most of my users (adults and children!) use their download folder to store everything 😄

Bromcom > GroupCall > Satchel issues yes. We had timetable changes from Jan that didn't populate. Satchel have a case open with them with no meaningful reply. Avoid GroupCall if possible, Wonde just seems to work.

Old post I know but I am looking into this also. We have Space and a USB encoder with an old printer that needs replacing anyway. Will update here, unless you had any joy and can tell me!

Big shout out to JazzFlute! Finished defederating RMUnify this morning, used bits of the PowerShell script above, worked a treat. Moved users into the synced OUs some at a time to catch any issues. So far, only a few password resets. Used it as an opportunity to clean up some username madness from ~10 years ago. Salamander are working on the user provisioning from Bromcom. Works a treat, users signed into everything Microsoft seamlessly. Very happy! £5k, what a joke RM have become. Anyone reading this in the future, I am keeping hold of these files in case you need them. Also remember to RTFM, it's vital to remove the permissions from the RMUnify Azure/Entra app, stop and disable the RM service on your DC before letting loose the PowerShell Next step, Google directory sync. Off to do some reading. Thanks all

Thanks. I *believe* I just need to null the immutableID field in Entra. When I try to sync an existing user (in federated, RMU created) it always fails to match and creates a UPN+random number. New users sync perfectly, but obviously don't work with RMU sso because they don't exist in RMU. Will be doing Google as well with either Google directory sync or Entra I'd redirection. We have nothing of value in Google as we are mostly a 365/teams house