SIMS 7 - Command Reporter (Change Supplier)

Changing the Supplier of a Report

The Partner Support Team will supply contracted Integrators with a utility, ReportManager.exe. This utility opens a ’.RptDef’ file and allows the reports within them to have their ‘Supplier’ Changed.

ESS insist that Partners follow this protocol and change the supplier name for Partner reports to reflect the origin of the report. By Default the supplier would be the name of the training data school. Names cannot include ‘ESS’ or ‘SIMS’. 

If Your Company is ‘School Inc PLC’ then we recommend that you change the supplier to ‘School Inc PLC’, alternatively the name of the product may be used such as ‘SIMS’ or ‘SIMS Discovery’ (in ESS’s case). Care needs to be taken to ensure that the 'Supplier Name' given is not too generic such as ‘Visitor Log’ because many vendors might choose to create a product of the same name, or in our case ‘Discovery’ without ‘SIMS’ in the name would not be a great choice.

The reason for the requirement is so that schools can identify report providers and this helps with a school’s GDPR commitments.

ESS will offer a chargeable service to change the supplier of other reports if Integrators or non-partners fall outside of the criteria.

Process

• Locate Report Manager.exe
• Run it
• File Open the Report File (.rptdef) that you wish to import into a school.
• Select all of the Reports
• Enter the Supplier Name
• Press Change
• Save the file
• Don’t forget to use the new file (or overwrite the old one).