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The following document will guide you through the End of Year procedure for MCS DataCenter. |
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Select a school and click Edit Parameters.
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Step 3 - Set End of Year Parameters
- Click the arrow below to view available Parameters.
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- Locate the End of Year section of the Parameters list.
- Select the functions you wish to perform by checking the appropriate box. *If you choose to select the parameters here, you can skip the "Check the End of Year Setting" step in the WinFSCM End of Year instructions.
- Note that the backup path seen below is for documentation purposes only. Your path should point to your server. Do not change the location. If you do not see a path, contact your system administrator.
- *You MUST set a date for the upcoming school year in the line Temporary Categories Expire. It is recommended you select the same month and year as the previous year.
- You have a few options at this point. You may click Ok to save the changes only to the default school or you can click Apply to save the changes to multiple schools.
- In the Apply window, you can also choose to save changes to the current school, all schools, or a particular school type.
- Click OK once you have completed all parameter updates.
- You should now see the Setup Remote WinFSCM Parameters window.
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- Click the red X
to close. Then, click Close again.
- You have completed updating parameters and should see the primary MCS DataCenter window.
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Select All Schools to ensure the changes are applied to all schools within the District. It is recommended at this point the District considers which parameter values to push down to the school sites. If the 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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