Hi Gregor, Great to hear from you. Actually, importing large sets of data from (and exporting to) spreadsheets is *exactly* what we're working on right now, and will be included in an updated release very soon... hopefully this week.
--Tom On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Gregor Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi there, > I am new to this mailing list, therefore just a quick info who I am: I > am a 38yr old German school teacher close to Hamburg, Germany. Nice to meet > you :-) > > Either the question I have hasn't been posted yet or I just didn't find a > satisfying answer in the archieves (which might mean that I overread > it in case it's there). > > So if this was already talked about, please just give me a good link, > thanks :-) > > My school has got about 1,000 students and about 80 teachers but is > still growing. Lower classes are organized in their classes for > teaching, and the higher ones use courses on differend levels. Now, I > wonder if I can create some config files that I import one by one to > schooltool's database, like > term duration, timetables, teachers and their courses. Once this is > done and all courses have their course IDs, I'd like to import a data > file with all students, like: > studentID, FirstName, LastName, Class, German course, Maths Course, > English Course, Geography course, etc. > > This data could be available as .xls or .cvs or whatever. I saw > importing persons via that import function only allows a few fields, > and clicking for each of the 1,000 students once for each course they > have looks like work ;-) > > So, is there a possibility for importing lots of data with only a bit > of work? > Btw, (what might be interesting to know) I am running SchoolTool > 2008.10 on a ubuntu 2.6.24-22. > > Enjoy your Sunday, > Gregor > > _______________________________________________ > Schooltool mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool >
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