Scomis Hosted Applications Connector v6.16/7 – What’s New?

After upgrading to version v6.16/7 of the Scomis Hosted Apps connector (to access your hosted SIMS account) you may wonder what has changed… Scomis Hosted Connector v6.16/7 release: Version v6.16/7 Connector builds upon the success of the v6.10 Connector.  The new v6.16 Connector for Windows fixed several bugs as well as added new features. The…

How to manually reset an External Connector

An error message saying “Reason 0” may sometimes appear when trying to log into the local version of SIMS. You will first need to try using this Diagnostic tool as shown in this FAQ: https://faq.scomis.org/kb15928/ If this does not work, you will then need to try resetting this manually as shown below: Open Services on…

The version of SIMS on my External Connector is out of date

When we release SIM’s latest update onto our Hosted platform the SIMS Auto Update tool, included with the External Connector, will automatically update the instance of SIMS included with the connector to the same version. However some third party applications such as Inventry are constantly connecting to SIMS which stops the auto update tool from…

Scomis Hosted Application v6 – What’s New?

After upgrading to version 6 of the Scomis Hosted Apps connector (to access your hosted SIMS account) you may wonder what has changed… Scomis Hosted Connector v6 release: Version 6 has been built around Microsoft’s .Net Framework and contains all of the previous features and functionality of the v5.42 client (the last main release). **IMPORTANT** Because…

Installing the V6 Scomis Hosted Apps Connector

For a school to be able to access the updated Server 2016 based Scomis Hosted Apps platform, they will need to install the latest version of the connector. To do this, first download the latest V6 connector from: http://simsts.scomis.org/ScomisHostedAppsV607.msi (this will be updated as necessary) Once downloaded, ensure the user is logged out of the Hosted…

How to access/login to Hosted SIMS at home

Occasionally, you may need to be able to access your Scomis Hosted SIMS remotely, such as at home. You can access the Scomis Hosted Applications service from anywhere with an internet connection. In order to do this, NOTE:  Capita SIMS .net requires Microsoft Office Products for reporting, it is therefore the responsibility of all schools to ensure…