🥣 Easy Recipes
Here are some quick, pre-made solutions for common Slate challenges.
🎚️ Add an SSO Login Button
Adding a little JavaScript to the login page instructions can allow students, staff, etc. the cho...
✳ Add Asterisk to Address Block Labels
Slate doesn't offer an easy way to edit some form labels. You can use the Edit Scripts / Styles t...
🫳 Auto-Pick the First Option in a Related Event Selector
Ever wanted to automatically register students via a hidden Related Event Selector on a form? For...
🍼 Birth Fields on Custom Per Page
Replacing the stock per page with a Slate-Hosted Application Page has great benefits, like a beau...
📮 Change Country Field Default on an Address Block
Address blocks default the Country field to United States 🇺🇸. What a particular form is targeted ...
📜🌌 Content Blocks for Script Reuse in Portals
Did you know? You can use content blocks (snippets) without any merge fields/query involvement. ...
🏡 Copy Student's Address to Parent
Suppose you have a form with a student's address and a parent's address. You might wish to allow ...
Exclude Uploaded Materials from Document Export
When exporting from Configurable Joins - Document base to a document management system (BDM, OnBa...
📊 Expand All Report Rows ↕
To automatically expand all rows in a report, put this HTML into static content block’s Source: ...
📧 Extracting and Inserting HTML Source Code for Deliver Mailings / Templates
This page expands on the more general Editing Page Adding to Source article in focusing on its ap...
🎛️ Hide Rating Scale Label
If you utilize the "Hide Label" option on a rating scale (Likert), you'll notice that a weird spa...
💲 Importing Application Payment Activities
Summary You cannot import data to the [payment] table in Slate via Upload Dataset , but you ca...
📈 Install Plausible Analytics
Installing Plausible Analytics in Slate is easy if you take two necessary steps into account. XS...
⛔ Removing Irrelevant Links on Profile Tab
By default, person records in your Slate admissions instance will include links to information ...
Removing Special Characters from Exports
If you need to remove a single special character from an export, such as a phone number, you can ...
🔘 Rename the Submit Button
Insert the following script into your form to rename the Submit button to Next: $('button.defaul...
🔐 Restrict Portal Access by Realm
Here’s how you can restrict a portal with User security to only users who have been granted acces...
🔏 Retaining Person and School-Scoped Data from Applications
Institutions using Slate face an issue retaining data that isn't application-scoped when allowing...
Set Default Value Formula for Prompt-Based Field
Yes, you can use Default Value Formulas with prompt-driven fields. Your formula must output th...
📅 Setting Minimum and Maximum Dates for a Calendar Widget
When using the calendar element on a form in Slate, you may wish to restrict the available date o...
🧳 Suitcase Links Provided by Technolutions
Technolutions provides clients with dozens of Suitcase links that allow you to import these sampl...
💉 Warn if MMR Date Is Too Early 👶
You might want to alert someone processing MMR’s in a Workflow that the MMR was received before t...
🎁 Wrapping and Ellipses in Reports
How can I change Slate reports to display and wrap the entire label instead of cutting it off w...
Batch Edit Entity
How can I batch edit fields or other properties on an Entity? While it's easy to batch edit ...