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MSA Client Start of Year Instructions The following document will guide you through running the Start of Year procedure in MCS Client. |
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Warning Please read the following document in its entirety before attempting the Start of the Year procedure. |
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Microsoft Task Scheduler If your district utilizes Microsoft Task Scheduler for triggering Franklin/MSACLient MSAClient tasks (typically on-premise customers only) You should consider re-enabling scheduled jobs in Microsoft Task Scheduler such as enrollment systems updates, nightly jobs, etc. prior to attempting the Start of Year process. Please note, if your enrollment system inactivates all students at the End of Year, you may need to coordinate re-enabling this job with the enrollment system department. It should first be confirmed the enrollment system department has readied data for the upcoming school year and has generated a new update file for food administration prior to re-enabling any jobs. |
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I see critical alerts when I log in to logging into the system. How do I handle this?
It is normal to see critical alerts once the End of Year process has been completed. This occurs because the system's Scheduled Jobs have not yet been completed for the new database. The critical alerts will clear once the scheduled jobs have been completed (typically at midnight), or you may choose to run Scheduled Jobs manually run Scheduled Jobs.
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Run Student Information System Import File
Student Importers allow you to import your Student Information System (SIS) file into the system. Due to the number of changes made during the End of Year process, you will need to must run the Student Importer to establish MSA Client for the upcoming school year. Student data may be imported as simple text files or through SQL Server databases.
Typically it is easiest to run the student import at Utilities | Miscellaneous | Import Student Data. Follow the prompts and approve the import if asked for approval. After this first-time import, the related Franklin/MSAClient scheduled task should import the list nightly on it’s its own. We can repeat the import manually at any time during the school year as needed. This manual import process is also the primary solution when the student import scheduled task is failing fails due to a “suspicious import” mentioned below.
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