Deleting Staff in Personnel due to GDPR

Routines > Staff > Delete Staff In most cases, it is not possible to delete the entire record of a staff member because of the complexity of links to other data within SIMS. In the Spring 2019 release of SIMS Capita relaxed some of the rules that prevented deletion in previous versions, mainly to cover…

Unable to delete fully invoiced order in Local Payments School

Order shows as fully invoiced, not reconciled, but there is no option to cancel or delete. This is due to the cheque processing area not being completed, to resolve use the following steps:- 1 – Cancel the cheque payment under Focus>Accounts Payable>Cheque Processing, 2 – Cancel the invoice under Focus>Accounts Payable>Invoice/Credit Note This should then…

How to delete a duplicate pupil record

The admission number will no longer exist so it is important to keep a note of it with the school’s official roll book. The path required is Routines>Pupil>Delete Pupil Search for the pupil and use the red cross to delete.   kb23531    

School Census – Patches to delete data – Proficiency in English, Pupil Nationality and Country of Birth

Given the recent position of the DfE no longer collecting Proficient in English (1.4.3.2), Pupil Country of Birth (1.4.3.3) and Pupil Nationality (1.4.3.4), Capita SIMS have released the following three patches in SOLUS3 to delete this data: Patch 24423 – Deletes all records for Proficiency in English information for all past, present and future students….

GDPR – Deleting Pupil/Student Data in Bulk (Manually)

  Routines | Pupil (or Student) | Bulk Delete Pupil Data Following the Sims Summer 2018 Upgrade to assist schools in being GDPR compliant, it is now possible for a school to bulk delete pupil/student data in line with the Schools own data retention policies. The following data areas can now be deleted: Alerts Attendance…

Deleting Discover Groups from SIMS

Focus | Groups | Discover Groups Discover Groups in SIMS no longer exist in Discover. How can these be deleted from SIMS? Please call the Scomis Service Desk on 01392 385300 as a patch will need to be applied to delete the groups.

How do I delete a staff member in SIMS?

Sometimes it’s necessary to remove a member of staff in SIMS, if they have been added by accident or it’s a duplicate staff record. It is very important to only delete a staff record in the above circumstances, as when a member of staff is deleted from SIMS, this is permanent.  When the staff record…

Unable to delete linked document

Error when trying to delete Linked SEN Document – “There was an error uploading documents!” This occurs because the document itself has been deleted from this record but still remains as a Linked Document. Go to Focus>Student>Student Details Open the student’s record. Click the Linked Documents link and delete the SEN Document. This will no…

How do I remove a Student from a User Defined Group?

In Sims.net go to: Focus Groups User Defined Groups Search for the Group that you want to remove the student from Go to Panel 2 – Membership Find the student in the Member list Right click on the orange bar to the right of the Member’s name Click on Remove Membership Save   Reviewed: 22/02/18…

How do I delete a selection of results from a marksheet?

Make a note of template, aspect , result set & result date. Tools > Performance > Assessment > System Utilities > Results. Delete a selection of results > Next Select the required Students > Next Select the Aspect > Next Select the Result set (if there is one attached) > Next Select the Date range…

How do I delete equipment in Equipment Register?

Follow the below to remove equipment from Equipment Register. Focus > Equipment > Highlight the item > Click View/Edit. To delete the Item click the – icon on the focus bar and enter the reason for deletion. Click Save.

Deleting SIMS Reports created by another user.

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 but the original report remains in effect. Therefore when a person leaves or changes role, their reports were orphaned within SIMS in previous…

How To Delete A Marksheet From Exams

In Exams Organiser go to Tools>Delete Marksheets Select your criteria from the left hand panel by putting a tick in the required selection, (Season is usually the most relevant) Click on Refresh The left hand panel will be populated with all the Marsheets related to your previous selection. In the right hand panel select the…

Nova T6 Shortcuts

Add Items: Add a year: Click the + button at the top of the Year list. You can now enter the name for the year and the projected number of students. Add a block: Drag the Subject code over from the list on the right-hand side and drop it over the required band. Add a…

I am unable to delete a cost centre or ledger link

There are several things that may stop you deleting a cost centre or a ledger link – please check the following:- *Please note that it is only possible to delete a ledger code so long as the ledger code remains unused. Any cost centre over one financial year old will not be possible to delete….

Can I delete old CTF Files?

When CTF files are exported, an XML export file is created and stored in the CTF Export Directory that was specified when you configured the CTF defaults (via Tools | Setups | CTF). Each XML file will have an individual file name when viewed through Windows® Explorer. The first seven digits of the file name…