Creating Application-Scoped Fields and Prompts
  • 02 Apr 2025
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📚 Part of the series Application Building Phase 1: Initial setup

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.

📖Further reading: Fields & Prompts Overview

➡️ Up next: Creating materials

You’ve created some custom, application-scoped fields and their associated prompts to collect data on your application. Now, we’ll create the materials that let applicants upload documents to your application.

📚 Next article in this series: Materials Overview


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