8 Mar 2019
The standard Data Collection Sheet only displays the Work Email address of a contact. This can be amended in several ways, the most stress-free approach is to update the field in the…
30 Nov 2018
This report will run for any students but the effective date must be one when they were on roll at the school. Reports>Attendance (or Lesson Monitor)>Whole Group Pupil (student) Reports>Pupil's (student's)School Career…
16 Jul 2018
The Individual Session Summary Report (Reports/Attendance/Individual Pupil Reports/Individual Session Summary Report) will only display one student's attendance details per page. Unfortunately it is not possible to change this. As a workaround, please…
13 Jun 2018
The report can be downloaded by clicking below, please save as to a suitable location, and extract the file so that it shows in your File Explorer as Address change history.rptdef, ready…
1 Jun 2018
This is due to incomplete, duplicated or multiple entry information in the 'School History' section of the student record. If incomplete or duplicated then correct the data and run the report again. If…
15 May 2018
Current functionality in SIMS makes this almost near impossible or extremely complex to make, so that you can run a report for behaviour/achievement conduct points over a date range. You can download…
11 May 2018
The quick search on the SIMS homepage can be used as a quick reporting tool to help you find information. You can view details of search tokens available in Quick Search by…
26 Apr 2018
When sending messages to applicants through In-Touch, you may receive the error 'The following recipients do not have any selected communication method'. The reason this is not picking up any of the…
23 Apr 2018
When amending an RTF formatted report within SIMS, you may find that the changes you have made haven't saved. This is due to an RTF report needing to be saved in a…
6 Apr 2018
This FAQ is to assist in creating a report containing Medical Information of students in SIMS. There are several pre-designed reports on this subject, which can be found via Reports > Run…
4 Apr 2018
The following FAQ demonstrates how to import a Report Definition File (.RptDef) into SIMS.net. If the file is 'zipped', download the zip file to a location of your choice or copy the…
3 Apr 2018
When you pull through information from Programme of Study (PoS) you are not able to change the font to match the rest of the report just by selecting the information and then…
The following Attendance/Lesson monitor reports can be run/created in order to show vulnerable groups of children and their attendance figures. This can include Pupil Premium, Special Educational Needs, Free School Meals, Ever6,…
21 Mar 2018
There are two ways to create a CSV file from a report, this is usually to import or send the file where it is imported into third party software. After creating the…
1 Mar 2018
When trying to run a report in SIMS, the following error appears: Error 1004: Unable to set the LeftFooter property of the PageSetup class Explanation This error occurs when the wrong version…
23 Feb 2018
A report to show students who live with both parents or either parent is becoming a common request due to a freedom of information request going around. There is no simple way…
15 Nov 2017
School is running a class list in reports but one pupil is missing - the output is mail merge to labels. If this pupil should be the first on the second (or…
23 Oct 2017
Is the 'Print Report with Colour' option ticked? Was the colour added retrospectively to the marksheet? Is the column marked read only or its associated result set locked? If so the marksheet will…
9 Jan 2017
In order to publish reports in SLG the required year needs to be present To add an academic year go to Tools>Lookups>Maintain Search for SLG Document Category and add a New Academic…
3 Aug 2016
As you know, when a user creates a report within SIMS, only that user can amend or delete the report. Other users can use this as a base for their own report…
In the fields section expand the +SEN option then choose the Special Needs sub report - this is at the bottom and not the same as the SEN Needs at the top.…
18 Apr 2016
When completing your Assessment Data you will need to be aware of all new students and leavers. In SIMS you can run a Migration Report for Arrivals and Leavers. Reports>Run Reports>Click the +…
19 Jan 2016
To download the report file click here. 1. Save the DfE-FSM-Ever-6-@-Spring-Census-2018_RptDef.zip file into a folder on your computer. 2. Unzip the file and extract the DfE FSM Ever 6 @ Spring Census 2018.rptdef to…
26 Nov 2015
'Error: Could not open macro storage.' when running a report via Reports > Run Report. The cause of this problem was a Microsoft Word File Block Setting. To resolve this…
25 Aug 2015
To format the date in the report as required after export to excel, please follow the below mentioned steps: Select the column with the dates in the Excel spreadsheet. Select Data tab on…
30 Jul 2015
Applicable to Windows® Internet Explorer users only. Select Reports | Attendance (or Lesson Monitor) and then select the required report. Specify the required report criteria. Click the Print button to display…
19 Feb 2015
The inbuilt Attendance and Lesson Monitor reports are designed to output to a web browser such as Internet Explorer. It is possible to export the data from the web browser to Microsoft…
20 Nov 2014
Before starting the report, make sure you make a note of the Short Name of your User Defined Group as this will be required. After selecting the data fields that you require…
18 Nov 2014
Error: This exceeds the maximum width when running a report in SIMS. This is because the report is running as a Word List Report. It would need to be changed…
17 Nov 2014
To create a simple report to generate a list of Usernames and passwords for SIMS Learning Gateway: Reports | Design Report | Create a new report Click on Contact, click next Click…