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The following document will guide you through the End of Year procedure for MCS DataCenter. |
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Step 2 - Enable the End of Year process
- Your district District should have an arrow pointing at the name and be shown highlighted in a different color. If you do not see it upon the window opening, use the scroll bar to locate it. If your district District is not checked, click on it to select it.
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Skip this section if your district District does not use WinFSCM. |
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Please read this section carefully. This procedure affects the entire districtDistrict's End of Year process. |
Step 1 - Open the WinFSCM School/Parameter setup section
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Select All Schools to ensure the changes are applied to all schools within the districtDistrict. It is recommended at this point the district District considers which parameter values to push down to the school sites. If the district District chooses to push out every parameter set up in Step 2 with this process, the Apply only parameters that have changed should be unchecked. If this is not done, the system will only communicate the values that have been updated in this session. |
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Step 2 - Read the Warning Message
A warning message will pop up stating the following message.
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The end of year process will create a new datacenter database after backing up the old database. All other MCS Software packages will then communicate to the OLD database until they perform an end of year process; at which time they will begin communicating with the NEW database. You must be certain that you want to start a new school year before proceeding. Press <OK> to proceed with the end of year process; or, <CANCEL> to quit this screen without taking any action. |
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- WinFSCM End of Year - The next time WinFSCM is launched from any computer, it will download the latest upgrade from DataCenter updating the parameters and settings that you set for the DataCenter End of Year process. After this process has completed, the End of Year process for WinFSCM can be executed.
- Locking the prior year database - Choosing this option will prevent WinFSCM from updating a database from a previous year by disabling communication. If you need to prevent WinFSCM from updating a past database (e.g. 2012-2013 DataCenter database), you can lock the database by clicking on the Admin tab and selecting Previous Year Databases.
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