🤹 Custom Datasets

Overview

Slate users are all working to make the most of their Slate instances. Often this includes using Slate for processes and populations not included in their Slate database as delivered. Custom datasets have become a popular tool for managing program-specific data, ticketing systems and many other processes in Slate. 

🎤Presentations/Webinars/Podcasts

• Slate Innovation Summit 2024 - Presentation Slides (🔐 requires login)
  • "Datasets Collaboration Across Departments/Campus Non-Student Portals" by Elliot Downey
  • "Life After Cvent: Leveraging Custom Datasets, Entities, and Some Magic to Manage Large-Large Scale Events" by Peter Emerick and Marielle Beckers-Siebers
  • "Onboarding and Offboarding Users: Utilizing Datasets, Forms, Communications, and Permissions" by Cliff Murphy and Kristin Allen
    
  • "Slate on PEDs: How to Performance Enhance Your Database with Portals, Entities, and Datasets" by Christopher Browning, Colby Moss, Dan Pellegrini, Keeley Abbott, and Tanja Berjan
    
• Slate Innovation Summit 2023 - Presentation Slides (🔐 requires login)
  • "'Unleashing the Power of Datasets" by Christopher Browning, Cheri McEntee, and Daniel Perkins
• Need a Custom Dataset? Don't Fret!  (🔐 requires login) Webinar by Technolutions
• Slate for Student Success: Custom Datasets - Digestible Demo video by Technolutions

📝 Articles & Posts

• Slate Knowledge Base (🔐 requires login)
  • Custom Datasets
  • Creating a Custom Dataset
  • Linking Datasets Using Related Dataset Row Fields
  • Embedded Dataset Row Queries
• Slate Community Forums (🔐 requires login) 
  • This is such a popular topic at the moment with such disparate use cases that we recommend a general search for "dataset" to sort through posts that may be relevant to your needs.
• Super Slate Technolutions Friends | Facebook Group (🔐 requires login)
  There has been a lot of chatter over the years on this topic. A general search for "dataset" will return results including many comments from group members asking questions and describing their experiences with custom datasets.
• Slate Users Slack Group (🔐 requires login)
  Because this Slack group is on the freemium plan with messages hidden after 90 days, we’ll just recommend searching for relevant terms here such as "dataset" and if no results are returned, it may be time to make a post to generate fresh feedback about your use case for custom datasets.