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👩‍🍳 Harder Recipes

These recipes require more know-how to implement vs the Easy Recipes. But you’re up for the challenge! 🥄🍰

📧 Adding to the Dashboard "Connect" Section

What if you want to add student’s institutional email addresses to Slate? 🤔 Let’s suppose you suc...

⌛ Automate Loading EST, GRE, or TOEFL Scores into Slate

This article is a stub. https://github.com/WyattBest/EDUPowerTools/blob/master/Slate/encoura_sco...

📆 Adding a Date Picker to a Report with JavaScript

This article is a work in progress. Suppose you had a report with a parameter like weekof that d...

🎛 Conditionally Show or Hide Related Events

It's easy to use Conditional Logic in Slate forms to control display of an entire Related Events ...

🕹️ Control Hidden Related Event Selectors

This article is a stub. Control a hidden related event selector via checkboxes: //Find hidden r...

Converting Time Zone in Queries

How can I export dates and times in another timezone? 🤔 Converting between time zones in Sla...

👓 Editing School Records in Reader Forms

If your staff correct school records based on transcripts, you can pre-load information from scho...

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Group Report Rows by Week

By setting your table's Group By to a timestamp export and using Format Type: Custom SQL, you can...

"Hiding" Links in the Right-Side Navigation Menu of Application Records

🚧Slate Adventures In Progress🚧This page will be updated regularly as we learn of new Slater contr...

🌏 International Agents Portal Suitcase

This article is still being tested. As of Jul 16, 2025 Now that Suitcasing is available for Da...

0️⃣0️⃣ Remove leading zeroes in Source Format using Regular Expression (RegEx)

In a recent import, a Slate captain noticed that some CEEBs (org keys) were importing with two le...

⚖️Reformat Likert (Rating Scale) Labels

When using Slate’s Rating Scale (Likert scale) element on a form, you may wish to hide the label ...

📄 Custom PDFs for the Reader, Downloads, and Document Exports

Slate provides several different options for displaying information to an end user. For instance,...

🤺 "Hiding" top bar of Slate Homepage (including upcoming events)

The Why The top navigation menu on the Slate homepage provides direct links to some additional S...

🥸 Hiding Slate's Default Dashboards

🚧Slate Adventures In Progress🚧This page will be updated regularly as we learn of new Slater contr...

🌉 Inbox Gateway Automatch Portal

Join the conversation on the related Slate Community post Are your users tired of matching messa...

🧂Make a Dash(board) for it! Custom Record and Reader Dashboards

Custom Record and Reader Dashboard Enhancements for Greater Operations/Advising Efficiencies J...

🧺 Material Download Link

Ever wanted to allow students to download materials from status portals? Here's how you can gener...

🛄 Migrating Messages Between Slate Instances

Is it possible to move messages from one Slate instance to another? 🤔 As of September 2024, ...

📖 Recreating Standard 'Status' Export on a Reference Widget

One piece of implementing a Custom Reference Page is the Custom List Fields that the widget-scope...

📝 Rich Text Editor in a Form

Have you ever wanted to allow persons/end users to input HTML? You might do this to allow a perso...

➕ Sum or Max of Multiple Columns

Configurable Joins makes it easy to use the aggregate SQL functions like SUM() or MAX(). Howeve...

📺 Video Essay Reader Portal

The automatic Video Essay Reader tab has some limitations; it can only display essay prompts that...

📞 View Remaining Records in Call Lists

Ever wanted to see how many records remain across many call lists? Import this example portal to ...

💸Better Payment Complete Filters in CJs

On the legacy STL library, there is a filter called "Payment Complete". The quickest way to repli...

🧹 Retention Policies and Regular System Cleanup - Devices Edition

Maintaining a clean system is an important part in ensuring the efficiency of your Slate instance...

🚟Tutorial: Rolling Out Flexbox Dashboards from Clean Slate

Goal: Adapting Clean Slate's Flexbox Dashboard Design To add new dashboards, read the Technoluti...