What is covered in this article?
Overview
The Future Siblings field was added in release 2.1 and, combined with the new Family Connections Field, replaces the prior Siblings field.
We felt is was more important to revisit how we ask about siblings, prior to this release, we asked the question "Do you have any future, present or past siblings that attended the school?" and stored the answer in the Siblings field as a Yes or a No. Instead, we have split this in to two questions to know:
- Does a family have any future siblings that might attend the school?, or
- Are they a current family or not?
This new Future Siblings field replaces the prior Siblings field.
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
- In a new Future Siblings Chart
- 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
| Note: Recommend you turn off the existing Siblings field if it was set to appear on your form. |
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 Future Siblings 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
| Note: Recommend you turn off the existing Siblings field if it was set to appear on your forms. |