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System maintenance

This section outlines changes to the System maintenance manual arising from changes made to Synergetic (versions 64.13-65.19).

Note: The look and feel of Synergetic depends on the PC it is running on. The screenshots in this manual use both the version 65 and pre-65 look and feel. You may notice a slight difference in appearance between this manual and Synergetic running at your organisation but the functionality is exactly the same.

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Changes to auto-allocation of pledge receipts.

Synergetic's automatic allocation of pledge receipts has changed.

luFund lookup table

Synergetic Financial Configuration - Debtors tab - Sub Ledgers sub-tab

New medical maintenance configuration settings and lookup tables documented.

New medical maintenance configuration settings and lookup tables have been documented.

CustomImmunisation configuration setting

Discharge:AbsenceEvents Mode configuration setting

MedicalIncident:Description configuration setting

ReleaseExternally:AbsenceEventType configuration setting

ReleaseInternally:AbsenceEventType configuration setting

luDisabilityLevel lookup table

New Absence Factor rounding configurations settings.

You can configure the thresholds that determine whether absences in minutes are rounded to 0.0, 0.5 and 1.0 day absences.

ContactMinutesLower configuration setting

ContactMinutesUpper configuration setting

ContactMinutes configuration setting

Updated documentation for Crystal Reports.

Suggestions for dimensions to create 3*10 labels have been added to the documentation.

Changing label sizes and margins

New search capability in Report Selector window.

You can search for reports and user forms based on resource code, description or screen definition.

Report selector (cut down, search highlighted)

Report Selector window

New tab in Group Security Maintenance.

You can view which security resources users have permissions for in the Permissions tab of the Users view of Group Security Maintenance.

Group Security Maintenance - Users view - Permissions tab (cut down)

Group Security Maintenance - Users view

Custom stored procedures for parent teacher interviews.

You can override Synergetic's stored procedures for parent teacher interviews with your own custom stored procedures.

Overriding Synergetic's stored procedures

New communications configuration setting documented.

You can configure the way labels are printed for families using the MailingFormat configuration setting.

MailingFormat configuration setting

New export configuration setting.

You can configure Synergetic to allow non-standard NAPLAN year exports.

NoYearLevelRestriction configuration setting

More lookup tables documented.

You can set the categories for student alerts in the luCommunityAlertCategory lookup table.

Current Student Maintenance - Alerts tab (cutdown for whats new v65)

You can set categories for community members' citizenship statuses in the luCitizenshipStatus lookup table.

luCommunityAlertCategory lookup table

luCitizenshipStatus lookup table

Finance setup information moved to the Finance manual.

Information about setting up and maintaining financial information for Synergetic has been moved to the Finance manual from version 65. This includes information about setting up:

  • foreign currencies
  • banking configuration
  • creditor invoices
  • debtors
  • PABX.

Finance in the Finance manual

System maintenance manual restructured.

Information about maintaining configuration files and lookup tables for various aspects of Synergetic have been moved within the manual.

System setup and maintenance

New Crystal Reports capability.

You can prioritise standard Crystal Reports over custom reports for a Synergetic session.

Running system reports

Extension of IconAlertsDisplay configuration setting.

The IconAlertsDisplay configuration setting can also be used to configure the number of alerts displayed in SynWeb Attendance Maintenance.

IconAlertsDisplay configuration setting

More Tag List configuration settings documented.

You can determine when the Tag List window is displayed.

TagList:AlwaysShow configuration setting

TagList:AutoClose configuration setting

New configuration settings for spelling.

You can determine which dictionaries are used for the spell check and thesaurus functions and add words to a custom dictionary.

Maintaining spelling setup data

New configuration setting for custom icons.

You can set which colour Synergetic treats as transparent when displaying custom icons.

CustomIconTransparentColour configuration setting

New fields in luYearLevelStudentReportsExtra lookup table.

You can optionally specify file years and semesters for student reports in the luYearLevelStudentReportsExtra lookup table.

luYearLevelStudentReportsExtra lookup table

Descriptions added to luFutureStatus SynergyMeanings.

Extra information has been added about the SynergyMeanings used in the luFutureStatus lookup table.

luFutureStatus lookup table

Individual lookup table security resources.

You can set security permissions for individual lookup tables using Group/User Security Maintenance.

Group/User Security Maintenance - Groups View

New DocMan configuration setting.

You can set the default document classification when sending emails or importing documents into DocMan.

Import Document (Document Classification field highlighted)

Document:Classification configuration setting

New online application import abilities.

You can configure whether a self contact is created for a new student from the application import process using the AddStudentAsContact configuration setting.

New fields are available for use in importable applications, including:

  • for students:
    • CountryofBirthCode
    • IntendedTertiaryCourse
    • CountryOfApplication.
  • for contacts:
    • LivesWithFlag
    • ParentFlag
    • NormalMailFlag
    • ReportsFlag
    • CountryofBirthCode
    • SynergeticID.

AddStudentAsContact configuration setting

Creating importable applications

Processing online applications in the Future students manual

New attendance configuration setting.

You can use the HideTimetableClashMessage configuration setting to suppress warnings about a timetable clash when students sign into a timetabled class.

HideTimetableClashMessage configuration setting

New application attribute.

You can use the attribute Category to group future student applications.

Bulk Add Applications (category field displayed)

UseApplicationCategory configuration setting

luFutureApplicationCategory lookup table

New filter options on Process Online Applications window.

You can set the values for the filter options on the Process Online Applications window and their defaults.

luOnlineApplicationStatus lookup table

DefaultFilter:ApplicationStatus configuration setting

luOnlineApplicationType lookup table

 

New email configuration settings.

You can configure whether:

  • emails are automatically spell checked by default before they are sent
  • the HTML editor is shown first by default when composing emails
  • emails use a proxy authentication account with the mail server.

AutoSpellCheckEmailFlag configuration setting

ShowFirstHTMLEditorFlag configuration setting

Using the Email / SMS Configuration window

New student reports configuration setting.

You can set default fields applied to archived student reports.

Student Reports Archive Detail window (cut down)

Archive:Description configuration setting

Archive:Path configuration setting

Archive:SourceCode configuration setting

Archive:SourceReference configuration setting

luRelationship lookup table documented.

The luRelationship lookup table has been documented.

You can also use the luRelationship lookup table to set default Email and SMS behaviour for the relationship type.

luRelationship lookup table (Set Default Email and SMS, cut down)

luRelationship lookup table

Configuration settings documented.

Documentation has been added for configuration settings that control how to create unique network logins and email addresses for community members.

Community:NetworkLogin configuration setting

NetworkLogin:ForceUniqueCheck configuration setting

Community:OccupEmail configuration setting

OccupEmail:ForceUniqueCheck configuration setting

New configuration settings for multi-period classes.

You can use the MultiPeriod:Enable configuration setting to allow one attendance record to be used for multi-periods where the same class runs over two or more successive periods.

You can also schedule a short break between multi-period classes to allow students to make their way from one room to the next using the MultiPeriod:MaxInterval configuration setting.

MultiPeriod:Enable configuration setting

MultiPeriod:MaxInterval configuration setting

New MultiPeriod-
AttendanceMode field in the luFileType lookup table.

You can control how multi-periods are handled when attendances are submitted or deleted using the MultiPeriodAttendanceMode column in the luFileType lookup table.

Lookup Table Maintenance - luFileType (MultiPeriodAttendanceMode)

luFileType lookup table

New Custom Help configuration setting

You can configure which file server folder Synergetic uses to populate the Custom Help menu.

CustomHelpFileList configuration setting

New custom maintenance window icon configuration.

You can configure custom maintenance window icons to beep when activated.

Maintaining custom maintenance window icons

New subject class linking control

You can control whether subject classes can be linked together with the LinkedClass:EnabledFlag configuration setting.

LinkedClass:EnabledFlag configuration setting

New menu toolbar configuration setting.

You can configure the default icons for the menu toolbar.

IconSet configuration setting

New search capabilities in Groups / User Security Maintenance.

You can use the pipe character ( | ) to search multiple security resource fields at once. For example, FUT | Comm filters resources to communications security resources in the future students module.

Group Security Maintenance - Groups View

Last modified: 9/08/2014 10:43:27 AM

See Also

What's new in Synergetic version 65

Introduction

Community

Development

Human resources

Objects

Extracting data

Future students

Current students

Past students

Medical details

Curriculum

Attendance and absence events

Assessment and reports

Finance

Debtors

Sales

Creditors

Purchase orders

General ledger

Payroll

© 2017 Synergetic Management Systems. Published 20 July 2017.

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