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Adding JavaScript and CSS to Source

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Many pages in this KB and many forum posts will advise you to paste some code into a static con...

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Add JavaScript and CSS to Forms/Events the Easy Way

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Slate provides an "easy button" to add scripts and CSS to a form. Other, more complex methods inv...

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πŸ”οΈ Slate Summit 2024 Presentation Resources - Solutions in Action: Real-World Troubleshooting

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Welcome! You're probably here because you attended the 2024 Slate Summit presentation Solutions i...

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Fraud Query Timing Out

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Some users noticed that the delivered, custom SQL Fraud Query had become so slow that it timed ou...

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πŸ“„ Custom PDFs

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

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🎫 Slate-Based Ticketing Systems

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

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🏘️ Making the Most of the Slate Community

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Slate Community Overview One of the best parts of using Slate is having access to the community ...

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πŸ§‘β€πŸŽ“ Learning Slate

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Navigating the intricacies of a robust CRM like Slate is a fundamental challenge for Slate captai...

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πŸ€” Unfamiliar Academic Terminology

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Many Slate users come to Slate from the world of academia, but others have little to no direct pr...

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↔️ Translation Codes and Content Blocks

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Content blocks are useful in mailings and portals to provide custom content based on either data ...

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πŸ‘¨β€πŸ”¬Test vs Production Environments πŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬

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This article is a stub. The official Test Environments Knowledge Base article documents most of ...

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❇️ Status Portal Behavior

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This article is based on testing and observation. πŸ€” Which application does /apply/status redirec...

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πŸ”§ Slate User-Defined SQL Functions

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The official documentation has a helpful page on User Defined SQL Functions. However, as the page...

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πŸ”—Slate Instance Domain/URL Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes🎡

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My institution is embarking on a domain/url change. What to do in Slate? For example, "www.sla...

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πŸ—‚οΈ Retention Policy Best Practices

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Slate’s Retention Policy Editor is available as a way for schools to remove data from Slate and c...

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πŸ“Š Reporting in Slate

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Overview Many institutions launch Slate full of enthusiasm over the expanded access to data it o...

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🏫 Renaming the Organizations Dataset

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Can I rename the Organizations dataset to something more appropriate, like Schools? πŸ€” You ca...

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πŸ—οΈ Recreating Slate Template Library Filters in Configurable Joins

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Whether you love configurable joins or not, they’re often the best option. But what about the t...

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πŸ™‹ Materials vs Documents

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What's the difference between the [material] and [document] tables? The [document] table sup...

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πŸ“¦ Materialized Views and Custom SQL

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Materialized Views are queries that save their output to a custom table. Cron jobs refresh the da...

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