Add a person without typing a Bio ID
Open Admissions → Manage Students → Add Student or HRM → Manage Employees → Add Employee. Leave Bio ID empty. A student's number becomes the permanent SID. A staff number is 900000 plus the employee ID: employee 1 gets 900001. Temporary enquiries receive a student Bio ID on permanent admission.
Supported machine IDs contain 1 to 9 digits and are greater than zero. A valid manually entered unused number is kept. Keep an existing machine ID when editing other details. If another student or employee in the school already holds a number, saving is refused and names the holder; leading zeros do not create a different number. The form keeps the entered details so you can correct it.
Support can preview and fill missing IDs on old records with the safe fill command. Every existing value is preserved and clashes are reported instead of overwritten. Assigning an ID does not enrol a face, mark attendance, send messages or change login privileges.