I'm moving ahead first with the Nominal Roll functions. I've updated the metaedit script to increase the size of the defaults fields and added a new input 'type' called selecthash which will allow the defaults to be entries of the type: key, value so that descriptive text is displayed using the 'value' while the actual value stored in the key. This is necessary for the new staff features such as salary, which require this sort of thing. The metalibrary has also been updated to match.

I"m also doing planning for the role system and the audit system as well. Coding will follow, once I have the nominal roll done and more work done on the Alberta PASI system.

OA 6.75 is now available in the download area. This version has updates in several areas including report card area script rewrites.

I'm now testing new sites with the OA 6.75 release and have done updates to the announcement system, moodle sync scripting, and some report card area scripting earlier. If no issues, I'll have OA 6.75 out shortly.

I've updated the script to get it to load the metadata defaults for grade value. This is in addition to the loading of existing grade values. This overcomes the problem where we have to edit one student to put in a grade value we want, before we can reset the rest of the grade.

For example, we want to change the grade value for kindergarten from ECS to K. The 'K' value is already in the metadata configuration (so you will get that choice when editing an individual student record). However, since the ResetGrade script previously only pulled in existing grade values, you would have to edit a single student to add the K grade value. You could then use the ResetGrades script to reset the rest to a K value from ECS value. With this update, it will already have this value (if defined in the default values for the grade).

This update will come out with the OA 6.75 release (RSN). I am continuing work with several other things related to provincial and federal data synchronization.

I've gotten past security certificate problems to be able to start work on the solving the problem of having OA (Open Admin) communicating with the Alberta Education provincial system to exchange student school enrollments, demographics, etc. The PASI system is a Microsoft .NET webservice technology product. This will also require the addition of an Audit System to OA.

I'm also continuing work on the AANDC First Nations Nominal Roll for Sept/2012 deployment by the Federal dept.