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SIMS 7 - Beta Spring 2021 & Consolidated Workstation Patch
Consolidated Workstation Patch 3 was released 8th Feb, to provide subcodes for the SIMS 7 Autumn Release 2020,
Please note that this patch comes in 2 parts, 3 SQL patches and a front end patch to the workstation files. Running one without the other will lead to errors. Development systems are much easier to get out of step than customer sites, so please check that both have been applied before reporting issues.
The subcode functionality is also incorporated within the Beta of the SIMS 7 Spring Release 2021, which was released on 9th Feb.
These releases may be particularly of interest to TIs with products which interface with attendance. The beta includes the attendance sub-code functionality described in earlier guidance.
Both of the above are available to a pre-release of the DfE proposed sub codes for England which are subject to change. The release notes will explain 'subcodes' in more depth from a customer and utilisation perspective.
We would recommend that all TIs dealing with attendance test their applications against one or other of these released.
We will be contacting TIs with download instructions. TIs who have note received this guidance by 15th Feb 2021 should contact us.
The email to TIs contained the download details for the beta. TI's will need to contact partner support at present to obtain the workstation patch for Autumn.
In addition the following APIs have been updated, TPAttendanceRead and TPAttendanceWrite to support subcodes in a way that is intended to continue to work if the TI app has no knowledge of subcodes. The additional optional field of 'subcode' has been added and must match the code selected.
<SessionAttendances>
<SessionAttendance>
<PersonID>12105</PersonID>
<AttendanceDate>2021-01-20</AttendanceDate>
<SessionName>AM</SessionName>
<AttendanceMark>X</AttendanceMark>
<Comments></Comments>
<MinsLate></MinsLate>
<SubCode>X04</SubCode>
</SessionAttendance>
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