- 02 Apr 2025
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Creating Application-Scoped Fields and Prompts
- Updated 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:
Select Database from the main navigation.
Select Fields.
Select Insert.
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.
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