V5.2017 Update 02 Release Notes
Table of Contents New Features... 2 Analysis... 2 New Filter options added... 2 Behaviour... 3 New option added to Events [IM052826]... 3 Dashboard... 4 New Ordering option added to Dashboard Widgets... 4 MCAS (Admin)... 5 New Option added for Preferred and Legal Names [IM052632]... 5 Reporting... 6 New Data Items Added [IM050400, IM051070]... 6 Resolved Issues... 7 Administration... 7 Analysis... 8 Assessment... 9 Attendance... 10 Behaviour... 11 Cover... 12 Curriculum... 13 Dashboard... 14 Diary... 15 Exams... 16 Framework... 17 MCAS... 18 MCAS (Admin)... 18 Reporting... 19 Virtual School... 21
Introduction This document contains an End User version of the Release Notes for the Bromcom MIS Software for Version 5. The Release Notes contain details of the latest updates, fixes and new features that have been implemented in this release. An enhancement is either an improvement we have added or a new feature. Some of these are user requested, but most are enhancements we make to improve the software. This document contains the Release Notes for V5.2017 Update 02 What is an Update? When an enhancement is requested or an issue is found, the details are sent to the Development Team. Once they have made the enhancement or fixed the issue an update is created. This update can contain one or many fixes, for one or many modules, it is then tested by the Testing team and released either to be included into the next Build, (if there is one imminent), or it is passed as an Update to be deployed by the Support Team who will contact you and arrange a mutually agreeable time to apply the Update. Each of the issues listed here has been fixed with the latest Update. 1. Server side Installers: a. MIS 5.2017.2.1 2. Client side Installers: a. Timetable V1.15.34.0 b. Behaviour Pathways V3.2.28.0 c. Alerts Application V1.0.19.0 V5.2017 Update 02 Release Notes 1
New Features Analysis New Filter options added Analysis > Analysis Options Filters Three new filter options have been added with the Analysis section All, AM/PM and Class. V5.2017 Update 02 Release Notes 2
Behaviour New option added to Events [IM052826] Behaviour > Maintenance > Events > New/Edit The option to add/edit a category has been added to the Event section. V5.2017 Update 02 Release Notes 3
Dashboard New Ordering option added to Dashboard Widgets Dashboard The option to Order by Last Name, has been added to the Authorised Absences, Unauthorised Absences and Lates Today Widgets. V5.2017 Update 02 Release Notes 4
MCAS (Admin) New Option added for Preferred and Legal Names [IM052632] MCAS (Admin) > Configuration Settings > General A new option for showing either the Preferred or Legal name of a student has been added, this is checked by default. Messages at the top of the pages, for instance, How is Studentname is doing? Will reflect the selected option. These changes will be displayed on the following pages: Home Page Components Attendance Behaviour Homework Notice Board Parent Evening Timetable V5.2017 Update 02 Release Notes 5
Reporting New Data Items Added [IM050400, IM051070] Reporting New Data Item Date of Last Pay Review has been added. V5.2017 Update 02 Release Notes 6
Resolved Issues Administration IM051538 Community > Student Details > Funding & Allowances Was not displaying the Early years Pupil Premium screen, when in School Characteristics. IM051110 Community > Student Details > Support > File Print User was unable to see colours defined on support document template IM051432 Community > Student Details > Behaviour When clicking on the info icon on a newly added detention it was displaying the previous record information IM052192 IM052585 Community > Contact Details External candidates were displaying when they should not have been. IM052622 Community > Student Details > Delete Page Was unable to delete students with support timetable entries that have been covered IM052629 Routines > CTF Export Routines > CTF Import Was importing and exporting the incorrect address details IM052768 Community > Student Details > Behaviour Review required Events were having to be saved twice in order to be processed IM053026 Community > Student Details > Find Student > Contacts When a use clicks this MCAS link the page takes them to the MCAS parent page by using the related parent login. In this situation the parent login statistics are not recorded and shown on the MCAS Admin page IM052973 Maintenance > User Defined Flags The FSM6 group was listing more students than expected - due to students with DPP IM052982 Routines > CTF Export There was an issue with the CTF export as it was trying to synchronise the CTF assessment data when using the new model which was causing slowness/performance issues IM052739 Community > Staff Details > Find > Delete There was an error message when deleting staff V5.2017 Update 02 Release Notes 7
Analysis IM052599 Assessment > Student Grade Analysis A colour code transparent assigned to a subject was not allowing the user to to open the page V5.2017 Update 02 Release Notes 8
Assessment IM052434 Marksheet CSV Export Column results were displaying in date format after export IM052302 IM051883 Marksheet Save When there are two gradeset versions of which one was active and other was inactive. The results are present for the result date when the gradesets were active so the results were not updated even if the grades were changed. IM052646 Maintenance > Associations Was not allowing the Key Stage or Year Group selections to be cleared IM052463 Marksheets General There was an issue with performance when opening the page IM052588 Marksheet Export to PDF Marksheet Export to Excel The Export colour to PDF and Excel was not working if an entry column had a hidden formula column IM052900 Templates > Assessment Sheets List Print option was not working for multiple IM053072 IM053001 IM053096 Marksheets General selection of Marksheets Formula colours were not displaying on the Marksheet IM052009 Marksheets > Student Results The KS2 data was not displaying IM053188 Marksheets > Formula Data Entry Column A protection symbol was being shown for results that had not been protected IM052661 Marksheet Formula Review Column The padlock was displaying on the formula review column when the value of the parent column was changed IM053202 IM052934 IM045456 Marksheet Formula Data Entry Column Formula Data entry column not exporting/saving colours V5.2017 Update 02 Release Notes 9
Attendance IM051366 Attendance > Reports > Lateness by Class/Course Report The Period selection for the page was not being retained when the report loaded IM052664 Reports > Teacher Outstanding Register Duplicate classes were showing on the Teacher Outstanding Register Report IM052699 Registers > Amend Student Attendance The # mark when entered manually is now editable. If the # mark has been entered as a non-academic day it will remain uneditable V5.2017 Update 02 Release Notes 10
Behaviour Reference(s) Affected Area(s) Issues Description IM052630 Behaviour > Automated Events > Task Scheduler When creating an automated event with [ or /% the page was not giving a relevant message and was erroring IM052643 Behaviour > Detention Entry If there was already a detention for today the system should give the detention for next available slot, it is now doing this. IM052638 Behaviour > Detention Entry Creating Detention by Outcome was not working IM052841 Maintenance > Outcomes The Admin Use Only option was not showing as ticked when editing an Outcome that was Admin Only IM053038 Behaviour > Student Events Was unable to export as a PDF from Student Events because of a < character in behaviour comment IM052964 Behaviour > Detention Entry > Manual Was not able to assign multiple student detentions to same staff IM053070 Maintenance > Detention Scheduling Actions, Events and Outcomes was only displaying a single record IM052912 Behaviour > Detention Review > Edit Detention This was giving an error when the user edited a detention that did not have a calendar assigned to it V5.2017 Update 02 Release Notes 11
Cover Reference(s) Affected Area(s) Issues Description IM052593 Arrange Cover Used Today and Weeks Use were not displaying correctly in the table columns V5.2017 Update 02 Release Notes 12
Curriculum Reference(s) Affected Area(s) Issues Description IM052580 Curriculum > Withdrawal Groups The Withdrawal Groups page was only listing one of the classes the student was excluded from, rather than all of them V5.2017 Update 02 Release Notes 13
Dashboard IM052709 Timetabled Groups Today Was not taking student exclusions into account IM052677 Assessment Sheets After Assessment migration some inactive Marksheets were displaying IM052904 IM052907 Birthdays Staff Absence The Dashboard permissions for both the Birthday and Staff Absences widget have been updated IM053055 Pupil Search Box The pupil search box was covering the Save option. This was only occurring when the screen resolution was either 1280*1024 or less. IM052950 IM053135 My Calendar Was not displaying detention related register or non-teaching codes IM052942 Quick Access Panel Reporting option was not displaying in the panel IM053099 Missing Registers The missing registers panel was not loading when the number of characters in the period name was greater than 10 IM053161 Dashboard The taskbar menu was displaying over two lines on the dashboard IM051200 Timetabled Groups Today The user timetable page was showing withdrawal groups that were either already covered on previous days or were to be covered on future days with the incorrect day information V5.2017 Update 02 Release Notes 14
Diary IM050931 Reports > Parents Evening Maintenance Page Appointments were overlapping when the options 'Include Travel time in scheduling and 'Travel time amount' were changed IM052355 IM052846 Diary > Room Booking Requests When a room was booked using a recurrence and it clashed with another event then when looking for this room in the individual view it was not showing that a room booking was there IM053191 Diary > Parents Evenings >Manage Bookings Booked parents' evening appointment was not appearing for particular parent in MCAS IM053225 Diary > School Diary > New Room Bookings Times were not displaying in order V5.2017 Update 02 Release Notes 15
Exams IM052406 IM052649 Reports > Seating Plan Report If there were more than one component then it displayed in header but not in the student label IM052320 IM052491 Candidates > External Candidates Reports > Candidate Entries The Exam candidate s full name was not being updated IM052634 Reports > Clash Control Report Was giving an error when run IM052679 Entries > By Candidates and Exam Options > Was unable to enter teacher marks on entries Teacher Marks IM052667 Reports > Exam Seating Plans The Exam seating plan report was displaying the seating on the page correctly IM052724 Reports > Candidate Timetables Report When exporting the Candidate Timetables report to DMS - Multiple Documents, they appear with no Focus but a document per candidate was created successfully but could not be sent to students using the send document option IM053098 Reports > Exam Seating Plan Report When exporting the seating plan report with 'Include Special Candidate Notes' or 'Include Additional Notes' ticked, they were displaying in alphabetical order by first name. IM052763 Reports > Exam Entries Report If a student was in more than one selected class, it was only showing them for one class on the report. If all of the students in one class were showing for different classes, that class would not be displayed on the report IM053111 Reports > Exam Seating Plan If a room had 10 Rows and 8 columns the fit to page option was not working. Also if a candidate full name consisted of capital letters it was displaying with only the first character as a capital letter. V5.2017 Update 02 Release Notes 16
Framework IM052382 User defined flags - Ever FSM6 Curriculum dynamic report groups - Ever FSM6 Student selector - filter by FSM6 EverFSM6Flag entity column in reporting module EverFSM6 did not include students who were marked as DPP pupil premium today IM052740 Student Find Selector The student ordering when using the Find option for student preferences with legal name & preferred name options was displaying incorrectly IM052937 Contact Selection Student Selection Staff Selection When the special pagination was enabled for the contact selector, by ticking last name for example; the contact selector stopped working and gave an error IM052932 Profile The Set as Home Page and Go to Home Page options were not working correctly V5.2017 Update 02 Release Notes 17
MCAS IM052729 Requested Changes > e-mail Address Update Was giving an error when the User tried to change the email address to the same e-mail address IM052389 Parents Evening Was giving an error which was caused by an apostrophe in the name of a subject MCAS (Admin) IM051079 Unpublish Document Was not able to unpublish a document, this was happening because the published document name and actual DMS file name were different V5.2017 Update 02 Release Notes 18
Reporting IM048912 Reporting: Student Account Balances & Reporting: Student Account Balances & Payments Payments entity only did not show any records for students with no payment information, even if they have taken meals that have a cost. This has been corrected and will return one record for these students and IM052314 IM049318 get the balance as of today. Behaviour Event Record Domain Was unable to group by classification name/description to get counts and there was no comma separated list for classification name. IM052706 Student Attendance Domain When using the Student Attendance Domain the period name was sometimes showing the period display name and sometimes the system name IM052735 General Reporting The SEN provision code was not displaying on reports IM052737 General Reporting When a Boolean data item is used in report (like IsLeaver or ReviewRequired) the system is showing an error message on the report IM052775 Matrix Reports Reporting headers were not displaying IM052795 Reporting > Webmerge > Assessment Domain Option for displaying colours was not displayed IM052745 General Reporting When running multiple reports in separate tabs when the reports are exported or refreshed it was still displaying data from the last run report IM050678 Reporting Filters > Date Fields When Between was selected and the Start Date/End Date was set as empty with the Ask at Runtime option, the system was showing 01/01/0001 as the Start Date when report was Run IM052978 General Reporting Intervals disappeared when the ShowTotals checkbox was ticked IM053014 Mailmerge There was an error when trying to edit a Webmerge report with specific filters IM052951 IM053021 IM053039 IM053062 IM052994 IM052958 IM053041 General Reporting Mailmerge Table Reports Matrix Reports Column Headers were mismatched to the data Section Start and Section End were showing as merge fields and causing webmerge errors Page Break texts were overlapping in the reports IM052995 Mailmerge Preview was showing ErrorOccured.trdx when new webmerge report was created for students IM053063 IM053134 General Reporting Moving data items in the Detail Listbox is not updating Preview correctly. This was happening only when the report was selected with FirstName and LastName from Student and Contact IM053108 General Reporting The columns and SUM expressions were not evaluated properly on the contact priority data item. The contact priority is an integer data item and the customer set up SUM for the grouping, for some of the records there was no contact V5.2017 Update 02 Release Notes 19
priority and system was treating these as a NULL and giving an error IM053064 General Reporting The Hide Footer/Hide Header option was not saving for some edited reports IM053163 Reporting > Edit Report Page The Delete button was hidden behind the report preview on the report edit page IM053237 Exam Candidate Domain Season filter was not displaying IM052933 General Reporting When a valid school logo did not exist for a report, it gave an error on the report IM052583 Adhoc Report When the Between filter was used the end date was not taken into account IM053266 General Reporting Intervals were disappearing when items were ordered in the list box IM052930 General Reporting Reporting module was slow to respond when working in the Assessment domain IM051371 IM053066 IM053022 IM052992 IM052959 IM052930 IM052883 IM052807 IM053272 IM053011 IM053250 IM052807 General Reporting Reporting module was slow to respond when Editing a report and adding columns to a report IM053154 General Reporting You were unable to change report headings when editing a report. V5.2017 Update 02 Release Notes 20
Virtual School IM052765 Virtual School Student Meal information is not being transferred if there were no evidences present V5.2017 Update 02 Release Notes 21