Product Releases
Release: 25.03.25
This update contains the development that was completed for the new Parent Evening Management System (PEMS), along with an important update to our Arbor absence writeback process.
School Portal Updates
Weduc Parent Event Management System (PEMS). The new PEMs module is now implemented, allowing school
admins to create and manage their parents evening events. Parents can easily book appointments from the app and and
teachers can easily view their bookings and add/amend as necessary.

Bug Fix. Arbor future absences not being processed on the 'current' date. The date calculation for Arbor absences has been corrected so that future absences are correctly written back to the MIS when the absence date arrives.
Parent App Updates
Text overlapping in register section. An issue in our app register view was corrected where text was overlapping when there are no classes in the register.
PEMS app parent view. The Parent/Carer PEMS module is implemented to allow parent to book and edit appointments. They also have the ability to leave notes for teachers where allowed, and download their appointment schedule..
Bug fixes
Meals & Meal Manager
Meals - meal week booking failing Portal side when using app. We have resolved a Meals Booking failure via the App to the Portal when the Menu Course Minimum and Maximum were set to No Limit.
Allow Timetables access to Meals. This has been included to ensure that Arbor schools can access meals via timetables. Bookings will be available in the timetables up to the time specified on the Meal Plan. PEMS
PEMS
Messaging from Teacher focussed Reports needs a "To" line text change. When using the Event Attendance Tracker to send messages, the "To" line heading was referencing "To carers of". This has been changed to match the recipient of the message to "To Teacher(s)".
Reverting back to "Apply to all event dates?" when you've made changes, not clearing changes as prompted. When you toggle the "Apply to all event dates" check mark on or off in the Classes & Teachers screen, the changes made in any of the event dates are reverted back to the defaults. All changes are removed.
Year Group selection needs to be across the whole row. When selecting a Year Group from the result of your search, you can now click anywhere on that resulting row to apply the filter.
The search element only works if the table is on page 1 of the dataset. When searching within the reports in PEMS, the search now filters records on all pages.
Groups are not being imported into PEMS because we are looking at the description instead of title. We have enhanced the selection criteria for Year groups against Class and Registration Groups to ensure that this functions correctly throughout all MIS configurations and our PEMS product. Messages
Clear Filter option not working on Custom Settings. When you have used the text search field in the Filter selector, clicking on "Clear Filter" will now clear the filtered options and this search text.
Messages
Merge Field Behaviour "Printed_Message" template. When choosing the "Create a Printed Copy" option from the "Set Additional Communication Methods" select picker, the downloaded printed copy of the message now only lists the children of the recipient user who are within the school where the message was generated from.
Payments
Setting up Dinner Payment Service to have a 'please select' as the default option. The default option when setting up the "Dinner Payment Service" is now "Nothing Selected" which, when the user tries to save the entity, will prevent the Meal Manager module being enabled with an incorrect payments configuration. This can then be updated once a valid Payments Service being set up.
