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Heres a good one for you all. I just had to create a report to export the year 7 details from e1 to import into eclipse2. Trouble is that e1 uses an xls file as it's output and eclipse2 needs a csv with quotes around the fields so it needs to look like this: "surname","forename"..... Microlibrarian have no fix for it and apparently they've been waiting for pearson to get back to them for weeks. I found a solution in the end. Opening the xls in excel I used a formula to create the text I needed in the first free column and then copied this resulting correctly formatted text into a blank notepad document. At first this didn't work but then I found that eclipse2 didn't like the upn field which even though it's supposed to be a required field the import worked fine when I deleted it. The forumla used was: =CHAR(34)&A1&CHAR(34)&","&CHAR(34)&B1&CHAR(34)&","&CHAR(34)&C1&CHAR(34)&","&CHAR(34)&D1&CHAR(34)&","&CHAR(34)&E1&CHAR(34)&","&CHAR(34)&F1&CHAR(34)&","&CHAR(34)&G1&CHAR(34) Ben

Just recently a couple of staff have mentioned that on their laptops Num Lock seems to be enabled from the logon screen. These users use the same keys that are used as a keypad as part of their username, so its annoying to disable it every time. We looked into the registry settings HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard\InitialKeyboardIndicators HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Keyboard\InitialKeyboardIndicators 0 = Num Lock is Enabled and is turned OFF AFTER the logon. 1 = Disable Num Lock completely. 2 = Numlock is turned ON AFTER the logon This seemed to make no difference, and when testing on another couple of machines, the setting wasn't consistent. Well after some investigation it only affected our Acer TravelMate 5720's, and a BIOS update resolved the issue. We were on V1.27 (Updated to V1.35) so any machine with a similar phoenix BIOS on an Intel board could have the issue. On a side note, the WinPhlash file has to be explicitly run as Administrator (Right Click -> Run As Administrator) even if you are logged in as an admin, otherwise the error will state "Failed to open Flash.sys" or something similar. Just thought i would share this in case anyone experiences the same issue. Simon

The Student Information System our school have been implementing has numerous limitations and disadvantages, especially in the reports and data analysis fields. We are now considering changing the System and would like to receive advice and suggestions from other schools who are satisfied with their system, a user-friendly, ‘smart’ data analysis interface that converts raw data into a management well-informed decisions tool. In addition to the regular enrolment, attendance and grading data, we are looking for a system that does the following: 1. Smart attendance absconding reports: a report that highlights missing students from a specific class (ditching) 2. Grades’ Analysis: a statistical report on grades by subject, grade, teachers, …. Including averages per class, deviation, …. 3. Enrolment for the coming year: our present system does not allow us to enrol students for the coming year until we ‘roll-over’ our present students – which only happens end of June. At present, we have had high recommendations for Integris and Pearson Phoenix ; can you please send me a brief about the system your school is using, your advice onto what factors to consider, and your recommendation as we are trying to collect end-users reviews to avoid the ''perfect vendor presentation" trap where decisions will be based off a 2 hour presentation given by each company which, while being informative, will be biased towards the good points of their products. We need to get an idea on what these products are like in real world use. Could you please leave any comments, advantages, disadvantages, you may have had using Integris or Pearson Phoenix , in particular if you have had experience of more than one of these MISs and can provide any comparrison observations. Thanks

Hi all I wondered if anyone can help with the fact I have got to move an installation of Phoenix Gold from our old server (Server1) to our new server (Server2) I have no problems with installing the clients icon install etc but just wondered if anyone has gone through it already ! Many thanks in advance Kevin

Hi, Well my GF's Acer Aspire 5720 doesn’t always connect to the router at home, so I guessed it was the wireless drivers, as my iPhone and sisters laptop always connect fine. After an update, which didn’t solve the problem, I thought I would try a BIOS update, V1.17 to V1.42 - quite an upgrade. Well the winFlash file opened, erased the bios, then failed on "VALIDATE FAILED" error AFTER ERASING THE BIOS FFS! Press the power button, hard drive cycles continuously, screen doesn’t turn on, it was a brick. After some reading I found something quite fantastic, if your laptop has a PHOENIX BIOS, you can do the following to revive it from being a brick. 1. Download the BIOS from the manufacturer’s site, preferably the version that worked originally. 2. Burn ONLY the .FD file to the CD. 3. Remove the Battery and Power Cable from the laptop. 4. Open the CD Drive with a Pin (Push a pin into the hole on the drive to force an eject) 5. Put the CD with the original .FD BIOS file into the drive. 6. Hold the FN and ESCAPE keys down. 7. Plug the MAINS LEAD ONLY into the laptop. 8. Press the power button whilst still holding the keys. a. This will FORCE the computer to load the .FN file from the CD and write it to the BIOS of the machine. 9. The laptop will power up, you can release the keys; leave the laptop for 20-30 minutes if needed. 10. The computer will turn itself off once complete. 11. Re-insert the battery, power on the laptop. 12. It works a. In my case – Happy GF. I tried the version that failed the update on my laptop first, and it did not install, I downloaded the 1.19 version (closest I could find for my BIOS to 1.17 [original]) and it worked. Hope this works for anyone that experiences this problem, thought it was a pretty awesome fix, and worth people knowing. Read also that you can do this with desktop PC’s if you hold CTRL and Escape when pressing the power button, but don’t want to create the problem just to fix it. Regards, Psy