Centre SIS

Is there any way to get the look of 3.0 transcripts into v. 2.14.1? 3.0 was to buggy but we would like to use the transcripts it offers.

There is a lot of changes to the way grades are handled in 3.0, so there is probably a good chance that there is no "reverse compatibility." It has been a while since a version was released, so i assume that another is just around the corner. The developers are busy working out those bugs.

2.x uses Centre's ListOutptut plus htmldoc while 3.x uses fpdf. You could modify the script from 3.x to work with 2.x but there were too many changes to expect it to 'just work'.

I am in the process of modifying the "Transcript.php" in v. 2.14.

What I would like to do, but having difficulty achieving, is querying the student's address information and have it added to the the transcript output. I tried looking at how the "Mailings.php" queried address info, but that really has not helped.

If anyone could help and give help or advice I would really appreciate it.

modules/Students/MailingLabels.php uses the mailing_labels widget. The mailing_labels widget is not a search widget like all the other widgets.

GetStuList and ListOutput are the two workhorses of Centre. The database query for GetStuList is built up from elements of the $extra array. In MailingLabels.php you'll see

$_REQUEST['mailing_labels']='Y';
Widgets('mailing_labels');

The $_REQUEST['mailing_labels']='Y'; has to do with how widgets are normally used. When Widgets is called it adds to the GetStuList query through the $extra array. See functions/Widgets.fnc.php and search for mailing_labels and this will show you how to query for addresses. It uses an outer join so students will show up in the result even if they don't have an address. The mailing_address widget also causes the function functions/MailingLabel.php to be called where it parses the components of the address to make an address label.

If you can understand how modules/Students/MailingLabels.php and the mailing_label widget work you are doing pretty good.

Matt