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Removing Special Characters from Exports

Slate ๐Ÿฅฃ Easy Recipes

If you need to remove a single special character from an export, such as a phone number, you can ...

Updated 1 month ago by Wyatt Best

โ›” Removing Irrelevant Links on Profile Tab

Slate ๐Ÿฅฃ Easy Recipes

By default, person records in your Slate admissions instance will include links to information ...

Updated 1 month ago by Megan Story

๐Ÿ“œ Differences Between Old and New Transcript Checklist Items

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Sometime around 2020, Technolutions changed the default transcript checklist generation method in...

Updated 1 month ago by Wyatt Best

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป Configurable Joins from an IT Perspective

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IT users dropped into Slate for the first time are often frustrated by Configurable Joins. Wha...

Updated 1 month ago by Wyatt Best

๐Ÿ“Š Reporting in Slate

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

Updated 1 month ago by Isaac Best

โš™ Database Table Locations

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Where is that thing stored? ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Item Table(s) Comments Form Prompt Condit...

Updated 1 month ago by Wyatt Best

GET Data from Slate

Slate ๐Ÿ”Œ The Slate API

GET requests are very easy. Create your query and turn it into a web service with theย Edit Web Se...

Updated 1 month ago by Wyatt Best

๐ŸชœUpgrading from Reader to Workflow

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Congratulations on making the move from the legacy Reader to Workflows! This transition brings en...

Updated 1 month ago by Megan Story

๐Ÿ›๏ธ Controlling Report Column Width

Slate ๐Ÿฅฃ Easy Recipes

By default, each column is equal width. Portrait reports are 900px wide Landscape reports are...

Updated 1 month ago by Megan Story

๐ŸŒ‰ Inbox Gateway Automatch Portal

Slate ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿณ Harder Recipes

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

Updated 1 month ago by Megan Story

๐Ÿงฎ Origin Source Calculations

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Origin Source Dates For Source Format origin sources, the [date] column in [origin] comes from...

Updated 1 month ago by Megan Story

๐Ÿ“ค Workflows

Slate ๐Ÿ“š Reference

Overview Workflows are a powerful update to the legacy Reader module in Slate. Transitioning to ...

Updated 1 month ago by Megan Story

๐Ÿ—„ Why Archive Queries?

Slate ๐Ÿ“š Reference

Why bother archiving or deleting old queries when there's no limit on how many we can have in S...

Updated 1 month ago by Megan Story

๐Ÿคท Why Transition to Configurable Joins

Slate ๐Ÿ“š Reference

Institutions that have been in Slate for several years often have a deep library of queries and r...

Updated 1 month ago by Megan Story

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿคโ€๐Ÿง‘ Shared Slate Instances

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Overview This page is devoted to Slaters considering or actively working in Slate instances that...

Updated 1 month ago by Megan Story

๐Ÿ“ Ping Table

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Official Ping Documentation Columns Name Purpose Notes identity Row key ti...

Updated 1 month ago by Wyatt Best

๐Ÿ‡ถ๐Ÿ‡ท QR Codes

Slate ๐Ÿ“š Reference

Can I create QR codes with Slate? ๐Ÿค” Slate has two methods for creating QR codes. Only one is...

Updated 1 month ago by Wyatt Best

๐Ÿ”—Slate Instance Domain/URL Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes๐ŸŽต

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

Updated 1 month ago by Wyatt Best

๐Ÿ”๏ธ 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...

Updated 1 month ago by Jon Rowand

๐Ÿค” 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...

Updated 1 month ago by Isaac Best