Revision history - Smart Software for schools

2.12.67 2012/02/02

SSL support has been added to the e-mail module. Activate it in the Settings of the e-mail module, or on the Mailbox tab of individual users.

In Marks | Reports, the designer now supports copy, cut and paste via Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X and Ctrl-V, respectively.

In Admin | Class lists, redirection lists will now be extracted correctly from the timetable.

2.12.66 2012/02/01

A new version of the 3rd-party email library has been included in this update. This is to enable SSL support in the near future.

The LURITS / SAMS subject codes used in exports have been updated.

In Marks | Reports, multiple columns are now supported for repeating section, reports with multiple columns of subjects on one page are now possible.

2.12.65 2012/01/31

LURITS and passport numbers are now included in the basic pupil information export to CSV.

2.12.64 2012/01/30

An error would occur when exporting data to SA SAMS if a pupil's years in grade wasn't filled in.

2.12.63 2012/01/27

In View timetables, printing class timetables without the option to fit periods to contents could produce an error when periods contained long text.

2.12.62 2012/01/26

In Email, an error would occur when sending e-mail via an individual e-mail account when outgoing mail exists for other accounts.

In SMS, an error would occur when receiving multiple replies.

2.12.61 2012/01/19

In Build timetables, the master timetable would, in some timetables, not scroll all the way to the right.

In View timetables, class timetables containing combinations could overprint the next class.

In Setup | Users, deleting a user could cause an error.

2.12.60 2011/12/09

An error could occur in Pupil register | Print | Statistics.

2.12.59 2011/12/05

Retention schedules which print subject averages will now print the grade average and not the average of the failing learners only.

2.12.58 2011/12/05

The Mpumalanga schedules should now print the correct phase.

2.12.56 2011/11/30

The Gauteng SBA & Exam recording sheet has been added to the marks schedules.

2.12.55 2011/11/28

In version 2.12.54, an error could occur when loading a pupil.

2.12.54 2011/11/25

More timetable features: on the Activities tab, you can now block teachers and set their rooms, and on the Timetable tab's Options, you can now choose to ignore room clashes. A search depth slider was also added to the toolbar for quick changes. Finally, if you click on a period, the Free teachers and Free resources lists will now jump to that period.

2.12.52 2011/11/08

Western Cape promotion schedules for grades 10-12 have been added.

2.12.51 2011/11/01

In Build timetables | Combinations, an error would occur when moving groups from the Class column to a combination column while using the option to try to automatically eliminate fallbacks.

2.12.50 2011/10/28

Some new features were added to Build timetables:

On the Combinations tab, you can now Swap combinations. If you right-click on a combination group, the option Try to dissolve will attempt to eliminate that group by moving them to other combinations or rows. When doing horizontal moves, the program will automatically try to solve conflicting learners by moving them to different groups.

On the Activities tab, a Replace button has been added to replace one teacher with another throughout the timetable. Also, a Generate button has been added. This displays a form which generates activities based on the arrangement of subjects on the Combinations tab, and the number of periods and classes per teacher entered.

2.12.48 2011/10/19

In 2.12.47, an error would occur when calculating GET verdicts.

2.12.47 2011/10/14

In Marks | Verdicts | FET | Averages, you can now specify that LO should count half as much as other subjects for pupils' averages.

The LURITS module will now detect sequence number errors in feedback files and automatically adjust the sequence numbers when processing the files.

In Build timetables | Combinations, the Balance function will now balance across multiple rows of the same subject, and can be undone.

2.12.46 2011/09/30

The parent's form would usually default to the last available year rather than the current one.

2.12.45 2011/09/23

In the E-mail module, an error could occur if a message was sent to recipients without any valid addresses.

2.12.44 2011/09/16

In the SASAMS export, learners' LURITS numbers are now exported as well.

2.12.43 2011/09/15

In the SASAMS export, learner mainstream/SNE has been corrected, subject codes are now exported according to the LURITS link, and marks should be visible since they're now marked as own marks.

2.12.42 2011/09/13

In the school fees, names will now be shown in the summaries and ageing analysis will now be printed in name order.

New transaction numbers could be slow to obtain, this has been fixed.

A scrollbar was added to the parent's notes field.

Parents' information pages can now be printed without notes.

2.12.41 2011/09/08

Some users have started seeing an ADO warning message, this has been removed.

2.12.40 2011/09/02

Uncategorized stock couldn't be printed on staff or room allocation lists.

2.12.39 2011/08/11

The LURITS module would keep trying to register staff who already left the school. It will now also import feedback of possible duplicate learners as successful registrations.

In the absenteeism registers, statistics could be reported incorrectly when selecting a date range that exceeded school terms.

2.12.38 2011/07/29

An error could occur when trying to view a deleted e-mail.

In the reports, the position in grade of pupils with marks with more decimals than the column could be calculated incorrectly.

2.12.36 2011/07/19

The Northern Cape progression schedule for the GET senior phase was added.

In the reports, right-aligned fields could get cut off slightly.

2.12.35 2011/06/13

In the e-mail module, attached Excel documents didn't work.

2.12.32 2011/06/08

In the LURITS module, learners' extra-curricular activities didn't export correctly.

2.12.31 2011/06/07

In the LURITS module, the export for learners transferred out could export year 0.

2.12.30 2011/06/06

An error could occur while loading the e-mail module if messages without dates were encountered.

2.12.29 2011/06/03

The LURITS module didn't export extra-curricular activities correctly.

2.12.27 2011/05/17

In the report designer, you can now print grade and class averages, position in class, and the number of pupils in the grade or class.

In the pupil register's statistics, you can now view and print late and bunking statistics.

In the LURITS module, a problem would be displayed if the liable parent didn't have an ID but the second parent did.

2.12.26 2011/05/11

In the LURITS module, exporting learners transferred out could produce an error.

In the SA-SAMS export, an error could occur when exporting learners/parents with many names.

The phase header was removed from the Western Cape's progression schedule.

2.12.25 2011/05/09

In the pupil register, selecting a grade/class didn't immediately affect the list of absentees.

2.12.24 2011/04/18

In the ageing analysis, all grades would be displayed regardless of the selection.

2.12.23 2011/04/15

In the e-mail module, errors during sending will now be displayed.

2.12.22 2011/04/13

The e-mail module now supports multiple mailboxes. Administrators can set up users' mailboxes in Setup | Users.

Sent e-mails will now appear on the pupil's, parents' or staff's messages tab.

The marks disks will now export WPM lists along with the typing lists. In addition, the sheets are now sorted in grade/class order and abbreviations are now used to name the sheet instead of the full subject name.

In Pupil register | Statistics, the totals and percentages didn't correlate with those printed on the Quarterly return.

An error occurred in School fees | Ageing analysis if a specific grade was selected.

A number of scaling problems due to large fonts in Windows was corrected.

In Enter marks, leavers will now appear in the Pupils list with red admin numbers to distinguish them. Also, immigrant calculations could be handled incorrectly for learners who didn't have the same setting for all years.

2.12.20 2011/03/23

In the reports, the position in grade per subject wouldn't print correctly.

In the pupil register, when printing learner totals and sorting by days absent or late, it will now be sorted in descending order.

2.12.19 2011/03/16

The extra-curricular activity lists didn't print correctly when all grades or all classes were selected.

2.12.18 2011/03/14

An error could occur while exporting to SA-SAMS if the target database didn't include a SecondName field for learners. It seems this field isn't consistently present in SAMS databases.

2.12.17 2011/03/10

In the pupil register's quarterly register, summary and return, custom dates can now be specified by unselecting the term.

In the pupil register's list of totals, viewing different lists could cause problems with page breaks on the print-out.

A parent's notes can now be printed on the statements.

An error would occur when exporting to SAMS without houses set up.

2.12.15 2011/03/03

An error could occur while loading the e-mail module.

2.12.14 2011/03/02

In Admin | Pupils | Print | List, the subject group field on the range tab wouldn't load multiple rows correctly.

In the SA SAMS export, an error would occur if no houses were set up.

2.12.13 2011/02/24

In Admin | Pupils | Print | List, date ranges could cause errors on certain databases.

2.12.12 2011/02/24

In the staff register, the list of totals has been adjusted to use variable-width columns for the leave types.

In the parent's information pages, inactive pupils for the year would still be printed.

In the SMS module, the Absenteeism notifications would produce an error if absenteeism was recorded for the day but none were without reason.

2.12.11 2011/02/03

In the Email module, editing a group in the phone book could produce an error.

All forms will now show on the taskbar.

A few bugs were fixed in importing Access Control Logs.

2.12.10 2011/01/28

In Pupils | Print | List, filtering on age will now work correctly.

In Pupils | Print | Transfer card, the pupil's LURITS number and grade entered have been added.

In Marks | Reports, parents' passport numbers are now available as a field.

In the SMS, if the Outbox contains multi-credit messages and the total required credits is more than that available on the account, the warning will now display the correct number of required credits.

2.12.09 2011/01/26

In the new quarterly absenteeism reports, schools who use the house field for register classes can now print according to that.

In the timetable, adding rows in the combinations won't create duplicate rows in the activities anymore.

In Pupils | Print | List, the Subject group on the Range tab has been fixed.

In the SMS, resubmitting sent messages and editing messages in the Outbox has been fixed.

2.12.08 2011/01/21

New quarterly absenteeism reports have been added to the Pupil register.

2.12.07 2011/01/06

In the Substitution, an error could occur if more than 5 teachers or rooms were allocated to learners.

2.12.06 2010/12/10

In the SMS module, an valid-looking but invalid number could prevent the system from sending messages.

In the marks calculations, the option to always promote would only do so if all marks were filled in, now it'll promote by default.

When exporting staff info to comma-delimited format, the program didn't export telephone numbers and addresses correctly.

2.12.05 2010/12/10

The Marks notifications in the SMS module would sometimes not generate messages correctly.

In the School fees, statements for 2011 would print an incorrect balance brought forward.

In the Substitution, allocating rooms or staff to pupils didn't work correctly.

2.12.04 2010/12/06

The Western Cape schedules produced an error.

The KwaZulu-Natal schedules didn't print the marks for second additional languages.

A function to manage extra-curricular activities was added to Admin | Pupils.

In Enter marks, pupil verdict comments weren't saved when typed into the comment box above the grid.

2.12.02 2010/12/02

In the schedules, NRP/NP can now be printed in red and circled.

The KwaZulu-Natal schedules printed marks in the wrong columns.

2.12.01 2010/12/01

Some schedules ignored the option to print fail reasons and printed it regardless.

The Limpopo retention schedule printed everyone.

2.12.00 2010/11/30

In the staff register, an error occurred when loading substitution lists for the method where available staff substitute for absent staff.

2.11.99 2010/11/26

In the schedules, marks could print for the old subject for pupils who changed subjects during the year.

In the SMS module, an error would occur when resubmitting a sent message.

2.11.98 2010/11/25

In the timetable, switching years and saving would result in the order of teachers getting shuffled around.

The SMS module would stop on a faulty message, and always displayed both parents in the phonebook when creating a new message.

2.11.97 2010/11/17

2.11.96 would not send sms messages.

2.11.96 2010/10/16

A number of changes have been made to the SMS module. Sent messages are no longer deleted, but archived, and the phonebook for selecting recipients for new messages works differently now. This is to support individual message linking which allows SMS messages to be displayed and printed in Pupils, Parents and Staff.

In Administration | Pupils, the option to indicate that a pupil's verdict must be calculated according to the immigrant concessions has been split from the existing option to indicate immigrants. The new option is on Scholastic | Allocation.

In Pupils | Tools | Manage classes, the alphabetical sorting has been repaired and a highlight feature added.

2.11.93 2010/10/27

Since 2.11.91, sending messages to all parents would include archived parents.

2.11.92 2010/10/25

An error could occur in various locations in 2.11.91.

2.11.91 2010/10/25

The e-mail module didn't correctly validate secondary e-mail addresses for families where communication should go to both parents.

2.11.90 2010/10/14

The SMS and e-mail modules would not detect cell numbers or e-mail addresses for parents for whom the Communication field wasn't filled in.

2.11.89 2010/10/06

An error could occur when printing marks lists from Enter marks.

The internet registration feature should be active again.

2.11.88 2010/09/22

The LURITS module gave an error when exporting learners in grade 1.

2.11.87 2010/09/15

The LURITS module will now assume the school's province as a pupil's previous year province unless otherwise specified.

In the SMS module, on some computers the phonebook would expand the wrong group on first click.

In Setup | Other schools, an error would occur when trying to save a school with an apostrophe in the name.

In Admin | Promotions, an error would occur when proceeding if the backup option was selected but the backup couldn't be made.

2.11.86 2010/09/09

In the Pupil register, directly marking pupils as late wasn't working.

In the SMS and E-mail modules, sorting by clicking on a column header now works in the phonebook for adding recipients to a message.

2.11.85 2010/09/03

More of the schedules can now be exported to Excel. So far, the ones for Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Northwest and Kwazulu-Natal have been converted, the rest will follow when completed.

In the substitution, when allocating staff to the duty lists, it would display all staff instead of just those who are available in a particular period.

2.11.84 2010/09/03

In Build timetables, an error occurred when new combination classes were saved.

2.11.83 2010/09/02

In Admin | Staff, some archived staff members were displayed in the active list.

In Admin | Class lists, an error would occur if two staff members had the same name and surname.

2.11.82 2010/09/02

In Admin | Pupils, an error would occur if the bus route field was displayed.

In Setup | Terms, separate dates for learners and teachers can now be set up.

2.11.81 2010/09/01

In Admin | Pupils, adding extra-curricular activities without entering a note would give an error.

In the SMS module, the drop-down field for parents didn't appear when creating messages for parents.

2.11.80 2010/08/31

Speed increases in the Pupils and Parents screens, especially for network users.

More of the schedules can be exported to Excel, and some print bugs were fixed.

2.11.79 2010/08/30

In the SMS module, e-mails to typed e-mail addresses weren't being sent. Also, empty replies would cause an error.

In the Absenteeism statistics, dates weren't handled correctly if the computer's short date format was set to dd/mm/yyyy.

In Staff, an error would occur when using Leave or Return.

2.11.78 2010/08/25

In the SMS module, an error would occur if a new recipient was added.

The LURITS module will now use the school's province as default for pupils without a value for the province last year.

Some of the schedules (Gauteng progression and retention schedules, Mpumalanga FET schedule) can now be exported to Excel. The others will follow as they are completed.

2.11.77 2010/08/24

The e-mail wasn't sending out messages in the last few versions.

In the Pupils and Staff, timetables are now only loaded when needed to display, which should help improve speed issues.

2.11.76 2010/08/23

In the pupil register, editing or removing entries didn't work when viewing absenteeism for a particular date.

In the staff register, adding a range of dates when viewing for a particular date didn't work.

In the SMS and e-mail modules, generating messages for a group of parents could generate a messages per pupil instead of per parent.

In Admin | Pupils, scrolling a pupil's timetable would hide the day or period headings.

In the marks calculations, when calculating formulas, .5 could sometimes round down.

2.11.75 2010/08/18

In the SMS module, sending messages to the pupils or parents in a particular grade or class could produce an error.

2.11.74 2010/08/18

An error could occur in the SMS module when messages were sent to parents.

In the pupil register, the mechanics of selecting and adding pupils have been improved.

2.11.73 2010/08/17

An error occurred in the Extract function of the subject lists.

In Pupils, selecting a new parent didn't link the parent to the pupil.

2.11.71 2010/08/16

An error occurred in Parents if the father's or mother's name and surname fields were selected.

2.11.70 2010/08/15

The reports weren't filling in the register teacher's surname correctly.

2.11.69 2010/08/12

Fixed bugs in Pupils (when adding new pupils), and SMS/Email (when opening the phonebook for a new message).

2.11.68 2010/08/10

The LURITS module can now re-export data.

2.11.65 2010/05/24

In School fees | Ageing analysis, you can now choose not to print credit balances.

2.11.64 2010/05/17

In the e-mail module's settings, you can now choose whether the program should validate outgoing e-mail addresses or not.

2.11.62 2010/04/29

An error could occur when exporting pupils for LURITS if a pupil's Province last year was set to Other country but the Country last year wasn't filled in.

2.11.61 2010/04/22

In the e-mail module, I replaced the address validator with a more reliable component which performs a DNS query on the domain of each recipient address.

2.11.60 2010/03/26

Western and Eastern Cape schedule layouts have been added.

2.11.59 2010/03/17

In Setup | Subjects, the code field for the NSC entries program is available once again.

In the e-mail module, when sending messages to parents where both parents must be contacted and have the same address, that address will only be included once.

2.11.58 2010/03/12

In the marks calculations of verdicts for the new GET senior phase rules, an error could occur for students with missing marks.

In the comma-separated value export for pupils (basic information only), an error would occur if any pupil was a boarder.

2.11.57 2010/03/11

The LURITS module now checks for duplicate lurits subjects for learners.

Some export errors were fixed in the SA-SAMS export function.

2.11.56 2010/02/26

The LURITS module no longer requires two languages for grade 3 learners.

The conduct and absenteeism sms notification screens would resize badly on systems with large fonts, causing the toolbar to obscure the date field.

In Admin | Class lists, the extract button for subject lists will now remember teachers for schools without a timetable, only removing empty lists and adding new lists.

2.11.55 2010/02/15

The LURITS module no longer requires two languages for grade 1 and 2 learners.

2.11.53 2010/02/08

The LURITS module can now export the year-end leavers and promotions. The different exports can now be done individually.

2.11.52 2010/01/27

In Setup | Users, the parents' Emergency and Notes tabs are now available as options in the user roles.

2.11.51 2010/01/21

The timetable load and save messages were updated to better protect existing data.

2.11.50 2010/01/20

In the marks and timetables, only staff indicated as educators will be displayed.

The average of learning areas calculation was modified to ignore missing marks.

Some modifications of the LURITS module in preparation for exporting promotions.

2.11.49 2009/12/08

An error could occur during calculation if the grade averages were recalculated.

2.11.48 2009/12/07

The Gauteng GET retention schedules (except for grade 9) were printing everyone, not just retained learners.

2.11.47 2009/12/07

An error occurred in the print preview when clicking on Print.

2.11.46 2009/12/04

The Gauteng grade 9 progression schedule layout has been updated.

2.11.45 2009/11/30

You can now save print-outs to PDF, and e-mail reports and statements.

In Marks | Verdicts, you can now choose to promote all learners instead of calculating according to the national promotion requirements.

2.11.43 2009/11/23

The LURITS function no longer requires an ID for the liable parent of a child. It still requires that those ID numbers which are enterered, must be valid.

On the Gauteng FET promotion schedules, if you clear a subject's total or set it 0, the corresponding mark won't print. Use this for LO where only the final mark must be printed.

2.11.42 2009/11/12

Changing the postal address type for a parent didn't activate the Save button.

On the Gauteng GET progression and retention schedules, you'll now get both the mark and symbol, and a column which prints the home language code was added as well.

2.11.41 2009/11/05

An error could occur during the promotions.

2.11.40 2009/10/30

In rare cases, the phase split function in Setup | Subjects didn't correctly transfer all marks to the new subject code. If you have already done the split and found this problem, click here for a fix tool that can fix the problem.

2.11.39 2009/10/28

The export function has been activated in this version.

2.11.38 2009/10/27

The LURITS function was still complaining about archived learners.

2.11.37 2009/10/21

In the school fees, rounding problems could occur in the totals calculated by the summaries.

2.11.36 2009/10/19

An error would occur in the LURITS function if any problems were found in Setup | Languages.

2.11.35 2009/10/16

A few more bug fixes.

2.11.34 2009/10/16

A bug occurred when loading the LURITS export screen.

2.11.32 2009/10/14

Some print-outs in the marks system was slow.

A number of changes was made to the LURITS export.

2.11.31 2009/10/10

An error could occur when extracting class lists.

2.11.30 2009/10/09

In Admin | Pupils, a passport number field was added. The ID field won't highlight when empty anymore and the date registered field isn't being compared against the scholastic page anymore.

In Admin | Staff, the Persal and SACE numbers won't highlight when empty anymore.

In Utilities | Lurits, the checks for subject lists, terms and columns have been disabled. Also, a number of problems in the XML export was fixed.

In School fees | Statements, the From and To drop-down fields weren't sorted properly.

In Marks | Reports, the splash screen wasn't working properly in the last few versions.

2.11.29 2009/10/07

An error could occur when modifying subject lists.

2.11.28 2009/10/06

An error could occur when importing or saving marks.

2.11.27 2009/09/16

In Marks | Reports, you can now print reports for pupils who have left the school. They will only print when individually selected, though - when printing for the entire group, only active pupils are printed.

You can now use comment codes in the Excel marks disks.

Version 2.11.26 messed up the column sorting in Marks | Columns.

The absenteeism statistics print-outs have been adjusted to use the usual font and print the reason on the right, if it fits.

In the extra-curricular activities, the awards, positions and teams will now be sorted alphabetically.

Pupils' information pages weren't correctly printing whether a pupil attended school last year.

2.11.26 2009/09/11

The permissions for editing a school in Setup | Other schools didn't work correctly.

When calculating averages based on the average of all subjects, the program didn't ignore blank marks.

2.11.25 2009/09/08

The SMS module would give an error on sending if the account contained more than 32765 credits.

2.11.24 2009/09/07

Grade 4 - 6 verdicts were being calculated using 40% and 30% as the minimum percentages, instead of 50% and 35%.

In Utilities | Lurits, the program would give an error after scanning for problems, if no problems were found.

The possible retention schedule's heading wasn't printing correctly.

2.11.23 2009/09/04

In Marks | Reports, the liable parent fields didn't work correctly.

In Admin | Class lists, creating a new subject list would give an error if the teacher's admin number wasn't numeric.

2.11.22 2009/09/01

In Admin | Staff, the Qualification type wouldn't print on information pages, and the Acting category was highlighted in red when not filled in.

The Gauteng possible retention schedule for the senior phase has been updated.

In Admin | Pupils | Print | List, including the family code on a list would cause an error.

2.11.21 2009/08/28

In Admin | Pupils, the Medical conditions and Special problems fields were locked for users who should be able to edit it.

2.11.20 2009/08/24

The Print preview screen didn't work correctly in versions 2.11.18 - 2.11.19. This is due to ongoing work on integrating PDF functionality into Smart.

2.11.19 2009/08/20

In Marks | Reports, the Distance from school field wasn't working.

In Admin | Pupils | Print | List, it wasn't possible to add empty columns to existing lists.

2.11.18 2009/08/20

In Admin | Pupils | Print | List, including any parent's fields would cause an error to occur.

In Admin | Pupils, the Medical tab of the pupil's screen wasn't handling the associated user rights correctly.

In Admin | Extra-curricular activities, when printing pupil records a record that spans multiple pages wouldn't start from the top on subsequent pages.

2.11.17 2009/08/06

In Marks | Reports, the pupil section's Photo field didn't work.

In Setup | Users, an option was added for the Medical tab of a pupil's screen.

In Admin | Parents, printing an information page would cause an error.

2.11.16 2009/07/29

When calculating verdicts for grades 7 - 9 using the 2009 rules, the program would accept additional languages above 50% when checking for home languages above 50%, thus passing some pupils which should fail.

2.11.15 2009/07/29

When calculating verdicts for grades 7 - 9 using the 2009 rules, the program would reuse subjects above 50% (not languages or maths) when checking for subjects above 40%, thus passing some pupils which should fail.

In School fees | Summaries, the new Totals button in the toolbar will print a list of descriptions with debit and credit totals for the selected dates.

2.11.14 2009/07/28

In Setup | Subjects, the Print option was adjusted to print everything about subjects.

In Administration | Class lists, an error could occur when extracting class lists.

In Administration | Pupils and Timetables | View and print, the room wouldn't display the first time that screen was loaded.

In Marks | Verdicts, changes to the descriptions of the endorsements (except for the fields for Bachelor's degree) weren't detected.

2.11.13 2009/07/27

In Marks | Verdicts | FET phase | Verdicts, you can now specify what must be printed when a student has no endorsement (i.e. the student didn't meet the promotion requirements).

When printing student timetables, the key will now be printed in the top right-hand corner.

2.11.12 2009/07/27

On the report, the endorsement field would only print the code, not the description.

In Setup | Users, options have been added for Extra-curricular and Other schools, and the option for 'Add and remove' in Pupils have been split into separate options.

The transfer cards will now print the schools postal address, telephone, fax and e-mail.

2.11.11 2009/07/27

An error would sometimes occur when loading a report design which was set up to print only for pupils with a certain verdict.

In Marks | Verdicts, the description for Bachelor's degree endorsement wouldn't be saved.

2.11.10 2009/07/24

Endorsements can now be printed on the reports, and an endorsement statistics list was added.

2.11.09 2009/07/23

Errors occurred when saving marks or calculating verdicts.

2.11.08 2009/07/22

Saving a modified mark could result in an error in some cases.

Empty columns weren't working properly in Pupil | Print | List.

2.11.07 2009/07/21

In the last version, the reports didn't print any subjects.

2.11.06 2009/06/26

A provisional implementation of the new promotion requirements for the GET phase has been added. Automatic condonation is not available, and the immigrant calculations are probably incorrect. These will be corrected once I see a formal publication describing the rules in detail.

In the parents' screen, users with read-only rights couldn't switch to the address tabs.

2.11.05 2009/06/24

This update will split most of your telephone numbers for you, and many addreses. It will only split addresses which contain 4 lines or less and which fit into the new fields. For numbers, a variety of formats are recognized - testing on old data showed it recognized around 90% of telephone numbers.

In Pupils | Print | List, the Subject range field wasn't working correctly.

The SMS system was still using the old number fields. It now uses both, with a preference for the new number fields, i.e. if anything is entered in the new fields for a person's cellphone number, it'll use that, and only use the old field if the new ones are empty.

In Utilities | Data conversion, the export to comma-delimited format gave an error when exporting parent information.

2.11.04 2009/06/23

In the parents' screen, new postal addresses didn't load correctly, although they were saved correctly.

2.11.03 2009/06/22

An error occurred in Admin | Pupils for users who had previously selected columns for the archive.

The pupil conduct records have been adjusted to print a teacher's initials instead of full names.

2.11.02 2009/06/19

The automatic upgrade backup wasn't working in the new version.

An error in the login function was fixed.

2.11.00 2009/06/18

This is a big update, containing the modification for compliance with the DoE's LURITS system. Many fields have been added to the pupils, parents and staff. For more information, see the LURITS requirements page.

The LURITS export and import functions require the file smartxmlenc.dll. This file is included in the full installation of Smart, and will also be separately available on the download page. This is a .NET 2.0 dll which requires the Microsoft .NET framework to work (as does the LURITS POP Interface software).

A screen called LURITS was added to the Utilities menu. This function will check all required information for LURITS. Although not available yet, this is also where the export and import functions for the LURITS XML files will be found.

A function called Phase split was added to the Options menu in Setup | Subjects. Use this to separate subject records if you've been using the same subject code for both GET and FET phases.

A screen called Other schools was added to the Setup menu. This collects and manages information about other schools, and is initialized with the names of schools that were entered into the Previous school and Next school fields of pupils. There will probably be many duplicates in this list - use the Merge function to combine records.

An Admin tools function was added to the Utilities menu. Only Administrators will have access to the option. It'll allow a user to run queries directly on the database, and open the database in Access. It is currently only meant for support purposes.

In the Help menu, two options were added - Database folder and Program folder. These will just open the relevant folders in Explorer.