What's new in The Teachers PIM(formerly Teachers Personal Information Manager) 7.0.4
Aug 5, 2014- Added SxS.manifest files to the installation package to use Microsoft Side-by-side assembly technology. this technology allows the OCX files to be used without having to register them with the operating system. So far all test on XP, Win 7 and Win 8 machines have shown this to be an effective method for the use of these controls without registering them and hence use TPIM from a USB pen drive on a machine that has never had TPIM installed on it.
- added a website field to the personal address book
- fixed a few small bugs + hopefully fixed the crash on some systems when the daily planner is loaded and then immediately unloaded
- added suport for dropbox location so that the dropbox path can be used on any PC even if the dropbox location is different. TPIM works very well with the database stored in your dropbox, you just have to remember to close TPIM before opening it on another computer otherwise you will get two copies of your database.
- added a student photo display to the main class list double click because it was annoying not to be able to see a photo of the student whilst looking at the grade sheet.
- Fixed the import of classes to use the newer xlsx excel format which wasn't working correctly and included csv files also.
- Fixed a small bug with the default backup folder path not being created during setup
- Fixed a bug with the display of the registration group in the timeline.
New in The Teachers PIM(formerly Teachers Personal Information Manager) 7.0.03 (Aug 5, 2014)
- The major change within this update is the Toolbar control used throughout the application. In all previous versions the Toolbars were always static and changing the window size could easily block out toolbar buttons which you would not know were there. The replacement Toolbar control is a lot cleaner and uses cheverons for resizing so that no matter what the window size all toolbar elements are now still visible.
- Fixed a bug with adding weekly or fortnightly events in daily/weekly planning - previously all text was been added rather than just the selected text.
- double click on Timeline title bar will rollup roll down.
- Changed all Excel imports to open any version of excel file.
- Fixed tooltip text (lesson time) for double lessons on Timeline
- Fixed links from popup planner on timeline not using relational paths
- Auto load Postit settings wasn't working in V7 and now is.
- Because MyMaths changed their Assessment Manager interface such that direct access to a classes 'All Result' download is no longer possible I have had to change the way MyMaths results can be added to TPIM. To create and update MyMaths results within TPIM you now have to login to MyMaths and download the classes 'All Results' excel sheet then go to TPIM and select this file instead of the previous URL.
- The ability to change the toolbar colours and fade styles within TPIM has been replaced with Themes. The Themes available are currently the same as the themes in Win XP and TPIM can be set to automatically detect which theme is being used if you are using Win XP.
New in The Teachers PIM(formerly Teachers Personal Information Manager) 7.0.02 Beta (Aug 5, 2014)
- Fixed a bug with dragging files into the planning sheets as links not saving as relational paths
- Fixed the method for multiple consecutive registration periods of more than 2 periods in a row
- added a small fix to pasting a class list without tutor group details from the clipboard.
- changed the border around the toolbar when minimized so that's its the same in all windows versions.
- Fixed a small bug in the grade sheet statistics for variable type data
- Added the option to simply copy and paste whole blocks of cells from Excel to TPIM grade sheet
- Added the option to delete data in cells by pressing the delete key either for whole columns, selected cells or an individual cell. (note No prompt is given and no undo)
New in The Teachers PIM(formerly Teachers Personal Information Manager) 7.0.01 Beta (Aug 5, 2014)
- This is a rebuild of version 6 with all system registry dependencies removed. Due to many institutions implementing mandatory profiles on their networks or restricted profiles of some sort or another many problems were related the software not being able to save its settings or registration information in the users registry hive. In the case of mandatory profiles the settings could be saved but would be lost when the user logged off. Although this is not the fault of this software, especially since Microsoft recommend the use of system registry it did mean that in these circumstances a network manager had to be involved in the installation and deployment of this product.
- The removal of these registry dependencies has effectively made the software self contained and installable by a normal user on the local computer, a network share or a removable drive such as a USB flash drive. All settings are now saved in files located in various locations depending on the installation type.
New in The Teachers PIM(formerly Teachers Personal Information Manager) 6.0.07 (Aug 5, 2014)
- Changed the Daily/Weekly planning Toggle button so that its location is on the menu bar in the same place on each view.
- Changed the size of the drop down class list so that the first 10 classes are shown before a scroll bar is used.
- Added the display of consecutive lessons as a double lesson in Weekly Planning when this option is selected in the Planning Settings Panel.
- Made some changes to the opening of the weekly planner so that the next available week should automatically be opened and if a class was been edited in the Daily Planner this class will automatically be highlighted in the weekly planner.
- Added Password protection for the Incident Reports
- Added a Student Files Tab to the Pupil Information panel so Add, Delete and Open links to external files for individual pupils. These links can also be links to URLs.
- Fixed a couple of bugs with the statistics displayed in the Grade Details pane and saving a comment for different Grade sheets
- Added an option in Grades to automatically generate a column for Mean Average of any number of other columns you select or just generate another column which sums the columns you select.
- Changed the behavior of dragged files from windows explorer into the planning sheets so that any dragged file is automatically just added as a File Link and can then be quickly opened. This can also be an explore folder or a URL
- Fixed the Attendance recording in the Register so that it included the current day.
New in The Teachers PIM(formerly Teachers Personal Information Manager) 6.0.06 (Aug 5, 2014)
- Added a MyMaths grade sheet support with automatic refresh
- rewrote the functions for creating a weekly and fortnightly event in daily planning
- added email wizard for creating email addresses of pupils based on a predefined email address structure.
- added ability to send emails to all visible or selected pupil from any part of the Register Grades and Class lists facility.
- Added Explorer reload messaging in order to reapply the system tray icon when TPIM is minimized to the tray.
- Added the ability in the Address book to import other csv files like a Google export csv file.
New in The Teachers PIM(formerly Teachers Personal Information Manager) 6.0.05 (Oct 9, 2009)
- Added a drop down timetable for the week in the daily planning - just click on the Week number identification label of the daily plan (right hand side
- Changed the register entry so that when a character is entered for the register it autmatically jumps to the next pupil ready for data entry.
- When setting up a new database there is now an option to import your lesson timings from the previous years database to save manually imputing the dates.
- Added an option in the Setting Panel under Planning to show consecutive lessons as one double period. The first period of the double is used for this purpose and this is only shown in the Daily Planning and the timeline. There are future plans to implement this in the weekly planning also.
- fixed a couple of bugs with display of STP when moving from weekly planning straight into the STP of daily planning.
- fixed a bug with opening URL's from the User Menu item - you can now add references to online material such as google books to your user menu items
- Removed some functionality for opening certain types of external files that is no longer required.
- fixed the fact that the internal version number in 6/0/04 still said 6/0/02
- Fixed a bug that only reared its ugle head when the register was used prior to the start of term and it had been set in the settings panel to show more than one previous lesson.
- Fixed a bug in the display of the toolbar buttons which sometimes used the wrong gradient fill when a button was clicked.
- As TPIM now stores all its data files in the Application Data folder which is normally hidden from a user I have included links in the start menu TPIM shortcuts folder (created by the setup program and in the program itself under Folder Locations in the settings panel, under the File menu in the toolbar and in the startup wizard
- Improved the refresh display of the timelines toolbar buttons which provide menu access.