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Mobile Devices/PDA
CIMS integrates with Principalm directly to provide the ultimate PDA experience for having immediate access to key student information on your PDA. With Principalm there are automated options for updating information and keeping student information and pictures current between the PDA and CIMS. This is a full blown application. Contact Principalm for more information and pricing.

Alternatively, CIMS can produce downloads to a simple database application that must be resident on your PDA (Handibase). This takes more user knowledge and is not a canned application - meaning user will be presented with a spreadsheet like view of students and their schedules. CIMS has two options:
  • Employee/Staff information available to admin/superintendent level personnel or location Administrators
  • Student Demographics and Schedules for School Administrators (using HandBase database PDA S/W)


Handbase works with a multitude of PDA devices. Refer to their website re: compatible Operating Systems and Devices. If you are using PDA devices for student, speed is important when it comes to locating student schedules. Always look for a PDA that has maximum MHz, ie: when the Palm III came out it is working at 16Mhz which means large high schools wait 30 seconds to see a schedule.

There are two different methods for populating the PDA devices from CIMS:
  • Run a CIMS option (SCH.801), Do 2 File transfers, then run Handibase Batch Command
  • Write a PC Script that accesses nightly AS/400 information and automatically places information into hotsync directories.

The remainder of this document deals with method #1. If you are getting into PDA technology in a big way, consider talking with your district technical department to setup method #2.
School/Student Schedules

Refer to these attached notes for instructions on how to download students and student schedules to your palm.

Handibase Version 2 - Pre-Requisite Downloads (load into c:\cimshd):
  • Students.pdb and Schedules.pdb - Student and Schedule Empty Database Templates (Updated August, 2002)
  • Hdgo.bat - Batch file that executes import commands to create files and include in your hotsync directory. Do not reload this option if you are just updating your templates! File must be edited in with appropriate hotsync directory.
  • Go to ddhsoftware to download and install necessary database software to be installed on a PC, then included in the hotsync to load into your palm.


Handibase Version 3 - Pre-Requisite Downloads (load into c:\cimshd3):
  • Students3.pdb and Schedules3.pdb - Student and Schedule Empty Database Templates (Updated August, 2002)
  • Hdgo3.bat - Batch file that executes import commands to create files and include in your hotsync directory. Do not reload this option if you are just updating your templates! File must be edited in with appropriate hotsync directory.
  • Go to ddhsoftware to download and install necessary database software to be installed on a PC, then included in the hotsync to load into your palm.
Employee/Staff to PDA

If you have a spreadsheet (eg: Excel) or a database already on your Palm – then the easiest way to get staff information to the palm is to:
  • Use Employee GUI CIMS application to download selected staff (by Position, location, or all) and what fields of information you want to Excel on your desktop.
  • From Excel – do a ‘File Save’. You can name the document anything but place it in your documents to go folder so that on the next PDA sync – the file will be sent to your PDA.
If you do not have a spreadsheet or database application on your PDA, then this second method accommodates providing both the handbase database application plus an employee download.
Refer to these attached notes for instructions on how to download employee demographics to your palm.
Downloads (load into c:\cimshd):
  • Employee.pdb - Employee Empty Database Template
  • Hdgoemp.bat - Batch file that executes import commands to create file and include in your hotsync directory
  • Go to www.ddhsoftware.com to download and install necessary database software to be installed on a PC, then included in the hotsync to load into your palm.