April 2023 News Blog Post
Summary
This upgrade contains a number of highly requested new features including: • Bulk update Pre-admissions for data such as EAL, Ethnicity, First Language. To see a list of the new features the release notes are available from our customer portal linked below: https://schoolicts.halopsa.com/article?entity=articles&text=&id=376 For schools where we do the upgrade if you have specific requirements, we have created a form for you to let us know how we can improve and make your SIMS upgrade run more smooth Some schools will apply this in house or via a third-party IT provider, please make the relevant person aware this is now available upon request. Once the upgrade is complete, if you get an ‘incompatible database’ error when trying to access SIMS or FMS, please contact us so that we can investigate and resolve the issue to prevent this happening in future. Ensuring that all users have logged out of SIMS prior to the upgrade taking place will help to reduce residual problems. We require all users to be logged out of SIMS and FMS, (your internet, email and other software packages are still able to be accessed whilst the upgrade is running) and it will take approximately two hours (depending on database size).