SIMS 8 - New Attendance Codes - release

4th May 2021

The release of the above date is currently deploying and will add a number of new COVID 19 attendance subcodes. These are available in the edit mark routines but should appear simply as additional attendance codes from the perspective of the APIs.

{
            "@odata.type": "#ESS.Attendance.AttendanceCode",
            "ExternalID": "4c901fc4-feac-eb11-80fd-000d3a272670",
            "LookupType": "AttendanceCode",
            "Code": "X01",
            "Description": "Non compulsory school age",
            "DisplayOrder": 34,
            "IsVisible": true,
            "ResourceProvider": null,
            "StatutoryAttendanceCode": {
                "ExternalID": "680806eb-d6ca-433a-8cf2-64474c98e062",
                "Type": "Attendance.Lookup.StatutoryAttendanceCode"
            }
  },

The most impactful feature is the length of the code, clearly 3 characters in to one requires some coercion but there are no mappings at present to the LA code ('+') in this case within the APIs.

{
  "Attendee" : {
      "ExternalID":"6425a614-xxxxxxxx-002bc917425d",
      "Type":"Learner.Identifier"
  },
"Event" : {
      "ExternalID":"9774a7b0-9c7c-4f52-bdc5-2d438d5a54ec",

      "Type":"Attendance.StatutoryAttendanceSession"
  },
  "AttendanceCode" : {
      "ExternalID":"4c901fc4-feac-eb11-80fd-000d3a272670",
      "Type":"Attendance.Lookup.AttendanceCode"
  },
  "Qualifier" : {
      "MinutesLate":null,
      "Comment":"AndyTest"
  }
}

Write back is not impacted by the change and not technically is read.  However the mapping simply goes to a 3 character code.

Please note that sub codes work differently in SIMS 7 and SIMS 8.

SIMS 7

Code: X Subcode: X01 (different property)

SIMS 8

Code: X01 (no Subcode property)

In SIMS 7 there is scheduled work to add the LA attendance mappings e.g. X01 -> '+' as additional properties on one of the API calls - details to follow.  In SIMS 8, there is not LA mapping lookup.