Frog3 - SIMS Extractor Installation
Posted by on 01 August 2017 11:50 AM
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Overview The Frog SIMS extractor is a utility that a school will install either on their SIMS server or any machine that has the SIMS client installed on it. It allows you to extract data from SIMS and send that data to your Frogserver for import. The current version of the Frog SIMS extractor is 2.9.18 and has been designed to work with SIMS version 7.144 and above. Please note that if your SIMS version changes (due to an upgrade for example) you may need to update the SIMS extractor - please check with Frog Technical support if you are unsure. System Requirements The following minimum specifications are required to run this application: • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 (at the time of writing this document 25/07/16) • SIMS.Net Installing the SIMS Extractor Install this version by double clicking the executable file to being this process. Click next on this popup to continue. Enter the location of where you would like the SIMS Extractor to be installed. The typical location is left to default by schools (C:\Program Files (x86)\Frog\SIMS Extractor). Once you are happy with your location, click next to continue. Next, click the install button to begin the process. The installation will then begin, as indicated by the progress bar. This may take a few minutes depending on the specification of your system. Providing the installation is successful you will then be asked to click the finish button to end this process. There is a checkbox you can tick to automatically open the SIMS Extractor upon exit if desired. You can normally open your SIMS Extractor configuration page by visiting the following location from the start button on your taskbar:
You will see that three options have been installed, these are:
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