📚 Part of the series Application Building Phase 1: Core components

The Slate-hosted application is, essentially, a collection of forms. Specifically, they are forms with the scope application-page.

As such, all data collected on these application-page-scoped forms must be mapped to application-scoped system fields.

Your Slate for Admissions database, provisioned from either a 4-year, a 2-year, or a K-12 model database, includes some of these fields and prompts already.

These include:

• Entry Term

• Student Type

• Application Signature

• Enrollment Status

• Application Type

• Primary Major

To create a custom application-scoped field:

1. Select Database from the main navigation.

2. Select Fields.

3. Select Insert.

4. Configure the following settings:

   • Status: Active

   • Scope: Application

   • ID: Enter a computer-friendly id for the field, such as app_degree.

   • Name: Enter a human-friendly name for this field, such as Degree.

   • Prompt: Connect to a prompt list, if required. See Prompts for more information.

   • Value: Select Store Prompt ID if connected to a prompt list. If storing a free-text value (or special prompt), select Store Value. This list displays all active and inactive rounds because the record is being impersonated administratively.

5. Click Save.