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🎫 Slate-Based Ticketing Systems
🚧Slate Adventures In Progress🚧This page will be updated regularly as we learn of new Slater contr...
✋ Don't Panic - Solutions to Slate Things That Induce Panic
😮 You’re Seeing All Rounds as Open When You Impersonate an App Slate still knows it’s you wh...
Active Item Not Appearing on Form
We received a report of a material uploader not appearing as expected on a form. The user who rep...
📺 Video Essay Reader Portal
The automatic Video Essay Reader tab has some limitations; it can only display essay prompts that...
👓 Editing School Records in Reader Forms
If your staff correct school records based on transcripts, you can pre-load information from scho...
🌯 Wrapping a Form Field that's Actually a Merge Field
Perhaps you have a tab form displaying a lot of data via the Table format. Perhaps you want to di...
📹 Allow Recording/Uploading Video Essay after App Submission
You may find yourself wishing for a way to allow an applicant to record and upload a video essay ...
🏡 Copy Mailing Address to Permanent within Application
I implemented a Slate-Hosted Application personal information page. How can I recreate the stoc...
🔮Query on XML Column Data (Export/Filter)
There are a few places in Slate where the data is saved to the XML column, such as on the [messag...
⚖️Reformat Likert (Rating Scale) Labels
When using Slate’s Rating Scale (Likert scale) element on a form, you may wish to hide the label ...
↔ Fix Date Column of Test Scores Widget
The /apply/tes page sometimes has a problem with the first column of the score widget being cut o...
Keyboard Shortcuts for Slate
Ever wished you could go faster in the Slate query builder? 🚀 Wish you didn’t have to move the mo...
FW.escapeSelector()
FW.escapeSelector(selector) Escapes a CSS/jQuery selector with special characters, such as a dot...
🥸 Hiding Slate's Default Dashboards
🚧Slate Adventures In Progress🚧This page will be updated regularly as we learn of new Slater contr...
📧 Adding to the Dashboard "Connect" Section
What if you want to add student’s institutional email addresses to Slate? 🤔 Let’s suppose you suc...
🛄 Migrating Messages Between Slate Instances
Is it possible to move messages from one Slate instance to another? 🤔 As of September 2024, ...
"Starts With" Filter for Liquid Markup
Liquid doesn't have a native "string starts with" filter, but you can easily build one with slice...
TIFF Exporting to Perceptive Content in Wrong Orientation
Documents exported from Slate to Perceptive Content were all coming through as portrait format, e...
🕔 Updated Timestamps
This information is based on observation, not the official documentation.These lists are not exha...
🎁 Wrapping and Ellipses in Reports
How can I change Slate reports to display and wrap the entire label instead of cutting it off w...