System Requirements

Workstation

Windows 7 or Newer

RAM - 2 GB or more

Hard Drive: Minimum 40 GB Network Card: Required

Monitor: Minimum 1024 x 768 resolution or higher

Maplewood Enterprise

Hardware requirements are based on the number of users. Please contact us for more information.

Maplewood supports Windows 2008 R2 server or newer and SQL Server 2008 R2 or newer.Maplewood connectEd Web Server

Hardware requirements are based on the number of users. Please contact us for more information. Windows 2008 R2 Server Web Edition or higher. Internet Information Services 7.5 with .Net Framework 4.0 or better.

Maplewood connectEd Workstation or Client Machine

The following browsers are supported:

Google Chrome version 6 or higher
Internet Explorer version 9 or higher
Firefox version 20 or higher
Netscape version 6 or higher
Safari version 5 or higher

Adobe Acrobat Reader must be installed on each client machine to print reports on Maplewood connectEd. Please read the Technical Article covering this topic.

Maplewood connectEd and Handheld Devices

For handheld devices, any standard HTML browser that supports W3C standards is supported.

Maplewood connectEd Library System

To be able to install the Library OPAC site through Maplewood connectEd, the library data must be converted to SQL. Please contact Maplewood for details.

To use the Library circulation and catalogue features through Maplewood connectEd, the library data must be converted to SQL, and the individual users must be granted the appropriate rights to library through the Maplewood connectEd Security Administration program.

Once Library has been converted to SQL (and users have been given access to Library), no additional installation is required to access the circulation and catalogue features. A separate installation is required for the OPAC site, since it is a separate site.

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.

Notes: To ensure the best possible performance we recommend using JPG or GIF.

Images regardless of their original size will be proportionately shrunk to 240 X 320 as they are uploaded to the Enterprise DB and any images already in the DB will also be proportionately shrunk to 240 X 320. They will also converted to JPG with a 70% image quality.

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 wherever 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 student 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 student's 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). Administration System Requirements and Filename Conventions for all Maplewood Products The maximum total length for the Maplewood data path is 60 characters. This means that the UNC path to get to the data for each school must be 60 characters or less. It may be necessary to create a share that is closer to the actual data location (i.e. E:\Data\Administration\Maplewood\Schools\School1 could be shared at Maplewood instead of Data).

Data paths defined in the Maplewood system must use UNC paths, not drive letters.

Regional Settings

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

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 ".""