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SIMS 7 SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT

Integrate with the world's best MIS for Schools

Guidance is split in to topics with 'General Guidance' usually being the best place to start with overviews.  A Section call 'AOB' has been created to hold documentation which is not related to other material.

SIMS 7 - Attendance

Resources are given below.

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SIMS 7 - General Advice

Integrations based on SIMS Business Objects, various articles of generic advice.

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SIMS 7 Assessment Manager

Interfacing with SIMS 7 Assessment is one of the best ways to add value to a school's SIMS MIS data.

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SIMS 7 - Command Reporter

Command reporter is the simplest and cheapest way for integrators to get data out of SIMS.

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SIMS 7 - Dinner Money

Dinner Money 7 was designed to make the lives of dinner money administrators as simple as possible as a consequence, presents challenges for integrators!

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SIMS 7 - Timetabling

Schools, particularly in the 11 plus sector base their curriculum delivery on a period based time table. This section explains concepts and interfaces used in timetabling

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SIMS 7 - Student Interfaces

A collection of guidance documents for interfacing with student apis.

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SIMS 7 - Partner APIs (Local)

Partner APIs are one of the easier ways to read and write data to SIMS 7 but the scope is more limited than our own internal APIs.

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SIMS 7 - Backup Services

SIMS 7 & FMS 6 have need for local backup. This explains processes and accreditation

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SIMS 7 - Change Tracking APIs (Updated 14/5/20)

Some parts of SIMS 7 offer change tracking. Where TI data models are similar, these APIs can significantly reduce data exchange volumes between applications.

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SIMS 7 - Photographs

How to access/update student and staff photos. As a note of caution, photographs provided by school photographers usually remain the copyright of the photographer.

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SIMS 7 - Admissions Import and Update

Includes guidance on ATF / AIF Import and coding to update applications / applicants.

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SIMS 7 - Behaviour and Achievement

How to add or update behaviour and achievements within SIMS 7.

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SIMS 7 - Document Management

Documents linked to entities in SIMS are actually a 'note' with an optional attachment (the actual document).

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SIMS 7 - AOB (Ad hoc documents)

If you can't find topics elsewhere then this would be the best place to look.

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SIMS 7 - Staff, HR and HR Assistant

Interfacing SIMS Staff data including HR systems

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SIMS 7 - Code Samples

A collection of code samples that may assist TIs

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