Regional Settings

Technical Requirements

For best results when operating the Maplewood Administration system.

Please ensure your computer meets these requirements before operating the Maplewood Administration system.

Workstation

Pentium III 450mhz or better (Pentium IV recommended)
128 MB RAM (256 recommended)
5 GB hard-drive
800x600 screen resolution with 16 bit colour (1024x768 recommended)
Windows 2000 SP4 or higher (Windows XP SP2 recommended)
10/100 NIC
If networked 100Mb LAN or better

Maplewood Enterprise

Hardware requirements are based on the number of users. Please contact us for more information.
Windows 2000 Server SP 4 or Windows 2003 Server
MS SQL Server 2000 SP 3 or MS SQL Server 2005

Maplewood Web Portal

Hardware requirements are based on the number of users. Please contact us for more information.
Windows 2000 Server or Windows 2003 Server
Internet Information Services 5.0 with .Net Framework 1.1 or higher.
Adobe Acrobat Reader must be installed on each client machine to print reports on the Web Portal.

Maplewood Student and Staff Pictures

Schools can generate files containing whatever information the school photographer requires (e.g. name, grade, homeroom, student letters). Maplewood support staff can assist schools in creating this file.

Administration System Requirements and Filename Conventions for all Maplewood Products:

Note: The system's image display area for student and staff records is 126x126 pixels. The system will automatically resize your image to fit; however, we strongly recommended that your images be 126x126 pixels. This will eliminate any risk of potential distortion caused by the system shrinking the image to fit. Larger photographs could also adversely affect system performance where ever they are displayed - this affects both Windows and Web applications.

Student Pictures

Student pictures will display in students records in the admin system if they are BMP, GIF or JPG. BMP images should be 16 bit colour or higher.
Student pictures will display in students records and in the attendance/seating plan screen in Classroom Manager if they are BMP, GIF or JPG.
Student pictures will display and print in Report Builder reports if they are BMP, JPG or GIF.
Student pictures will display and print in Print Lists if they are BMP.
Student pictures will display in the library system if they are BMP
Each student's photo must be named using the 3-letter code (e.g. AJK. GIF). The photographer will need to know the 3-letter code of each student.

Staff Pictures

Staff pictures will display in students records in the admin system if they are BMP, JPG or GIF. BMP images should be 16 bit colour or higher.
Staff pictures will display and print in Report Builder reports if they are BMP or GIF.
Staff records can also include pictures. Each staff member has a 2-letter code in the staff record. If you take pictures of your staff members, then the photo file must be named using the 2-letter code (e.g. AB.GIF).

Parent/Guardian Pictures

Parent/Guardian pictures will display in students records in the admin system if they are BMP, JPG or GIF. BMP images should be 16 bit colour or higher.
Parent/Guardian pictures will display and print in Report Builder reports if they are BMP, JPG or GIF.
Each parent/guardian uses the a student 3-letter code plus M for mother, F for father or G for guardian. (e.g. ABCG.GIF). If the parent/guardian has more than one child in the school, then there will need to be an equal number of parent/guardian pictures to match (e.g. A set of parents has 2 children named Bobby and Jane, there will need to be 2 pictures for the mother and two pictures for the father - BBBF.gif for Bobby's father and JJBF.gif for Jane's father; then BBBM.gif for Bobby's mother and JJBM.gif for Jane's mother).

Pocket PC

The Pocket PC will display student pictures if they are .BMP or .JPG.

Regional Settings

You must set your regional settings (found under the control panel) to the following:

Your date settings must be as follows NOTE the short date, it MUST be a four digit display.

sShortDate = MM/dd/yyyy (Short Date)
sLongDate = dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy (Long Date)
sDecimal = . (Number)
sLanguage = enu (Language English American (preferred by MS Windows) )

Note: If you are a French user, have your settings FRCDN - please change the "," to a "."

Windows NT / 2000 / XP Clients and Novell Servers

If you are using a Windows NT / 2000 / XP on your workstation and you are attaching to a Novell server please ensure that you are using the latest Novell Client (4.83) with the associated updated. Without the update you may experience random file access errors (i.e. unable to compile an inquiry list but no problems trying to access one created on another computer).

For further information please see the Novell TID # 2961866 which was posted on March 22, 2002.