What is covered in this article?
Overview
Family Connection field was added in release 2.1 to allow school to track how the family is connected to their school. This is a drop down list that can be configured under the Admin > School Lists option.
Where does this field appear?
This fields appears in the following locations throughout the app:
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- As a new option under the More... button in search
- On your Sign Up and Apply forms
- When you bulk edit fields in the student list screen
- When merging students on the student list screen
Sign Up forms
Family Connection field is located in the General Section of the sign up form toward the bottom. Default settings are as follows:
- Field label: Are you a new family to our school?
- Include on Form: Default is OFF
To enable this field, go to:
- Admin > Signup Forms
- Select the desired form to edit by clicking the name or pencil icon
- Scroll down to the general section
- Select the checkbox to display the field on the relevant form
- Make any edits to the label (not the edits to the label will apply to all forms)
- Select of the field is required or not
- Repeat Step 4 & 6 only for each of the other signup forms
Apply Forms
If Apply is enabled, then this new field will also appear in the Family Connections section on your forms.
To enable this field on your Apply Forms, go to:
- Form Entries > Apply Forms
- Select the desired form to edit by clicking on the name or pencil icon
- Click Manage fields on the right hand side
- Expand the Family Connections section
- Click the icon to display the new Family Connection field on your form
- Select the field on the form itself, which will display the dialog below and set any additional options such as if it is mandatory or not
- SAVE form
- Publish your form to make these changes live