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SWS system status

This page details current known issues affecting the School Website Service platform, and any available workaround to follow whilst we endevour to investigate and resolve the issue.

Issue: When importing ICS files (ical) from certain external calendar providers, some events in the file are not imported.

In the ICS file the affected all-day events will have lowercase =date, while the working ones will have uppercase =DATE

Status: Current

Workaround:

  1. Download the ICS file to your computer.
  2. Open the file in a text editor such as Notepad.
  3. Do a case sensitive find and replace of =date with =DATE being sure to not include any extra spaces.
  4. Save the changes.
  5. Run the import again using the amended ICS file.

Issue: When using drag-and-drop (or upload from your computer function) in components  – particularly download box, newsletter, image, and the banner/hero banner components – the uploaded file or image will not appear immediately.

Status: Intermittent

Workaround:

  • Wait a minute or two and refresh the page and then the file or image should appear.
  • If on a download-box or newsletter the file size shows empty, wait and refresh the page again. When you see the file size appear, you can proceed with publishing your changes.

Issue: Video component when used inside the Accordion component (aka show/hide) the video component is not visible. This is caused by no default width and height being applied.

Status: Current, and partially resolved for newly added video components.

Workaround:

  • Edit the video component and apply height and width, typically 400px for height and 100% for width.

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