Interface configuration settings are provided to allow an institution to decide how they want SIS room and time changes to be handled. Room assignments can always be accepted, be accepted only when new section records are inserted, or only be accepted if the assignment has not been modified by Astra Schedule. Additionally, the system can be configured to drop the room assignment if a section's meeting pattern is edited and resulted in a double booking. If double bookings are not being allowed, then the room assignment would be dropped if the incoming assignment conflicted with either a section or an event.

Customers occasionally experience truncation of data in long fields, for example in the room import's room feature list. This is a single, semi-colon delimited field in the import file and it can become quite long if there are a number of room features. The Excel ODBC driver has an issue with long string type fields where it loads the maximum length of a certain number of fields to determine the overall file maximum. If there is a longer field later in the file after the sample, it will be truncated.

To get around this, you will need to either move a row representing the longest field in your file to the top of the list so it can be scanned first, or make a registry edit to provide different default instructions for Excel.

Following is a link to some supporting information on this issue from Microsoft:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/189897/