can send fee invoices to students

Administration
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i cant send fee emails to student please find attached image i sent the invoices long before as a test but now i says There are no family members available to send this receipt to.please help me asap i need this to start working

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i just want to send fee invoice to students not parent because i don’t use parent on my system at all this system is for a college
@rossdotparker @admin
some great work you have done making this system it must be hard to maintain but i don’t know what is happening here i so confused

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Hi syamkerai, Gibbon was designed for primary/secondary schooling, and so whilst it can definitely be used in a college, some functionality does not work as intended. You could try to add the student as a parent in their own family (Admin > User Admin > Manage Families), and so if this works? If not, this might be an area for future development. Thanks, Ross.

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Although we are not a college, we are a literacy institution that teaches adults. So, parent entries are not used and definitely not needed. Particularly in adult English as a Second Language classes in the USA, we occasionally have both husband and wife as students. So, there is a need for families to reflect two married students as well as situations where students are without parents.

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Although we are not a college, we are a literacy institution that teaches adults. So, parent entries are not used and definitely not needed. Particularly in adult English as a Second Language classes in the USA, we occasionally have both husband and wife as students. So, there is a need for families to reflect two married students as well as situations where students are without parents.

Have you been able to manage to find a good way to achive the Invoice sending to students problem

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@admin i tried to add the student to the famaily but i get the following error

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Hello! Sorry for the delay in replying to this one. Please can you try and place the file from the commit below into /modules/User Admin to replace the existing file?

https://github.com/rossdotparker/core/commit/24425be06ea88c547b35fa4f284f6309598b33d3

This should allow you to add a child from a family as the adult to the family. This is experimental, so I won’t commit it to the Gibbon core just yet, but I’d be interested to know how you get on. Thanks : D Ross

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Thanks you ross for the help i will try it and get back to you

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@admin thank you very much the module worked
i just wanted to ask one more thing is it possible to put the student in to his own family as adult when the user is created so this would be automatic
and if is it very difficult ?

again thanks a lot for the help and great work on developing gibbon guys

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Hi syamkerai,

You could edit the could edit /modules/User Admin/family_manage_edit_addChildProcess.php to try and achieve this, reusing code that is already there, but writing to the database table gibbonFamilyAdult rather than gibbonFamilyChild. This is not a feature we would want in the Gibbon core, and so I think you’d have to try and build and maintain it for yourself.

Hi @ross,

What do you think to the commit above, and making it part of v21? I can see cases where this makes sense, and cases where it does not. I guess, in cases where it does not make sense the school would not try and do it, and if they did, it would not have any negative side effects. Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Ross

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so we started to add the users manually to the system because we are just starting to move to the gibbon system from paper and we did all the input of the details form the public student application form
and just from there added the user name as parent name and student email as parent email so we can send emails fee emails to student as we don’t use parents in our system

and after entering all he details we started accepting few of the applications and the came across this
where i saw many user as part of one family i also cross checked the application form had the correct email and name details for the family but still this happened

please can you help me urgently @admin

much appreciated

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Hi syamkerai,

Are you by any chance running Gibbon v20 (or earlier) on a server with MySQL 8? We’ve just realised, and posted a thread, about some issues with this combination. The symptoms I’d expect to see match what you are seeing here.

Sorry to hear about this problems!

Ross

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Hello Ross,

I searched and found this old thread. Was a decision taken to allow invoices to be sent directly to students without having to make them parents of themselves? There are a good number of tertiary institutions/universities that would like to use Gibbon with no parents and no families.

Thanks
@rossdotparker @ross

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Hi Tieku, this is not currently on the roadmap and our development capacity is limited and currently focused on ongoing refactoring and improvements to the core, such as the new Admissions module. We would welcome outside developers who wished to make this improvement and contribute it as a PR, otherwise sponsored development through GibbonEdu.com may also be an option if this is a feature you’d like to see prioritized.