Custom fields
Ask what your school needs to know.
Every school records something the standard forms do not ask: a blood group, a pickup person, a house, a hostel preference. Add it as a field of your own and it appears on the form beside everything else.
Where they appear
On the forms your staff already use.
A custom field belongs to one of three forms: the student admission form, the employee form or the parent form. It sits in its own section on that form, in the order you choose.
Kept up to date. Employee custom fields can be filled in when staff are added and changed later from their record.
Per branch. Each branch defines its own fields, so one campus can ask for something another does not.
Seven kinds of answer
The right kind of answer for each question.
Choose what the field accepts, so answers come back in a form you can use.
Text and long text. A short answer such as a nickname, or a longer note such as allergies.
Dropdown. Type the choices separated by commas, such as “A+, A−, B+, O+”, and staff pick one, so the same answer is always spelled the same way.
Date, number and email. For a date of baptism, a locker number or a second email address.
Tick box. For a yes-or-no answer, ticked or unticked by default.
Layout
Placed where you want it.
Set each field’s position in the order, how wide it is on a twelve-column form, a default answer, and whether it is marked as required.
On the list
See the answer without opening a record.
Turn on “Show on table” and the field becomes a column on the employee or parent list.
Switch a field off. Deactivate a field you no longer need without deleting it, and switch it back on later.
Separate permissions. Viewing, adding, editing and deleting custom fields are separate permissions.
The student admission form, the employee form and the parent form.
Yes. School settings has a Student fields page for choosing which built-in fields appear and which are required.
A deactivated field stops appearing on forms and can be switched back on. Deleting removes the field.
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