Import Attendance Warnings

When you import your attendance file, there are several warnings that may be displayed. This section contains an explanation.

Note: If your district uses SIS Integration, these warnings will be shown in your SafeArrival Report.

Warning: The imported attendance information was created at date/time. If you have more recent data, import a new file.

This warning is shown when the marked time of absences is not within a short time. For the safety of students, the notifications should be sent as soon as possible after attendance has been taken. If you imported the wrong file, click CANCEL and import a more recent file.

Warning: The imported attendance information contains invalid student IDS. These will be ignored.

Click the “invalid student IDs” link. This will show you a list of student IDs that were in the attendance file, but are not in your SchoolMessenger Communicate database. You should investigate these student IDs. In the meantime, they will be ignored by the notification process, so you can go ahead and Send Notifications.

Warning: This file contains attendance data that is not for today. Please import attendance for today.

Click the “attendance data” link. This will should you the list of dates in the attendance file that are not for today. Re-export your attendance file from the student information system, ensuring you are exporting today’s absences. Return to SafeArrival and click CANCEL to terminate the original import, then IMPORT ATTENDANCE using your new file.

Warning: There are no marked absences in the file.

If there are no marked absences in the file, you will receive this warning. In order to generate your SafeArrival report for the day, go ahead and click SEND NOTIFICATIONS (no notifications will be sent).

Warning: There seems to be a timezone mismatch between Student Information System and SafeArrival. Please report this issue to SafeArrival support staff. You can continue to send notifications. Note that the student’s marked time will be shown as date/time.

This warning is shown when there is a significant time difference between the current time and the marked time of absences in the file. If you have timely attendance data, try exporting the attendance file and import it again.

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