[school-discuss] Open Admin for Schools 2.50 Released

[Les Richardson <les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

Open Administration for Schools 2.50, an open source, web based, school 
administration package is now available from:

http://richtech.ca/openadmin/

This version has many new updates, features, etc. outlined below:

1) Single Site SSL - OA will now run on the Apache SSL server to give 
encrypted communication between web browser and server. As a result, it 
has been updated to run as a single site per school (since SSL precludes 
the use of easy virtual sites).

Andy Figueroa, besides figuring out how to do it, and testing the results,
has also written the docs for a clean debian/ubuntu server install for
this.

2) Fee System - improvements to make this system more useful. It's still a
baby in developmental terms. It has a new outstanding fees report with
family totals; an additional receipts field to simplify transaction
structures and rewritten payments and invoice scripting.

3) Transcript system - a new transcript system that can generate multiple
page per student transcripts (with identical cool looks as previously).

4) Report Card system - a new rewritten report card script that has even 
more configuration options and now has a GPA setting.  The code has been 
rewritten to make it more flexible (and configurable).

5) Rewritten student enrollment scripting to allow better looking editing
and to support the 18 additional student fields. It also has a new 'Clone'
function to clone other family members to speed up student enrollment.

6) Rewritten pdf generation reports to support alternate language
characters (normally Spanish or French) in generated pdf's. This makes use
of the input encoding module of LaTeX.

7) Pop up calendar for date entry on Attendance and Main pages (from
the dynarch.com folks) (and scripts updated to support this)

8) A new Custom Staff Report (analogous to the custom classlist report).

9) Beginning support for alternate paper sizes rather than just letter
paper (ie. A4) as used by schools outside of North America. It is an
additional configuration option in master configuration file (
defaultpapersize).

10) New single field reset system (called 'bulk updates' on the Start/End
of Year page) to reset a single field in all student records, etc. This
replaced the large number of separate scripts.

11) And other fixes and improvements to improve the code and better 
support languages other than english.


Les Richardson
Open Admin for Schools
December 4, 2007