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๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿณ Harder Recipes

These recipes require more know-how to implement vs theย Easy Recipes. But youโ€™re up for the challenge! ๐Ÿฅ„๐Ÿฐ

๐Ÿ“ง Adding to the Dashboard "Connect" Section

What if you want to add studentโ€™s institutional email addresses to Slate? ๐Ÿค” Letโ€™s suppose you suc...

โŒ› Automate Loading EST, GRE, or TOEFL Scores into Slate

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

๐Ÿ“† 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...

๐ŸŽ› Conditionally Show or Hide Related Events

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

๐Ÿ•น๏ธ 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? ๐Ÿค” Converting between time zones in Sla...

๐Ÿ‘“ Editing School Records in Reader Forms

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

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿคโ€๐Ÿง‘ Group Report Rows by Week

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

๐Ÿคบ Hiding Links in the Right-Side Navigation Menu of Application Records

๐ŸšงSlate Adventures In Progress๐ŸšงThis page will be updated regularly as we learn of new Slater contr...

๐Ÿ“„ Custom PDFs for the Reader, Downloads, and Document Exports

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

๐Ÿคบ "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...

๐Ÿฅธ Hiding Slate's Default Dashboards

๐ŸšงSlate Adventures In Progress๐ŸšงThis 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...

๐Ÿงบ Material Download Link

Ever wanted to allow students to download materials from their status portal? Join to Materials a...

๐Ÿ›„ Migrating Messages Between Slate Instances

Is it possible to move messages from one Slate instance to another? ๐Ÿค” No, you can't import d...

๐Ÿ“– Recreating Standard 'Status' Export on a Reference Widget

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

๐Ÿ“ 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...

โž• Sum or Max of Multiple Columns

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

๐Ÿง‚Make a Dash(board) for it! Custom Record and Reader Dashboards

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

๐Ÿ“ž View Remaining Records in Call Lists

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