---
title: "Creating Application-Scoped Fields and Prompts"
slug: "application-fields"
description: "Create additional application-scoped fields to collect data on your Slate application."
tags: ["Applications", "Database Setup", "Records and Datasets"]
updated: 2026-02-26T16:11:42Z
published: 2026-02-26T16:11:42Z
canonical: "knowledge.technolutions.net/application-fields"
---

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# Creating Application-Scoped Fields and Prompts

> [!NOTE]
> 📚 Part of the series **Application Building Phase I:** [**Core components**](https://knowledge.technolutions.net/docs/application-building-checklist#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

## Creating an application-scoped field

To create a custom application-scoped field:

1. Select **Database** from the main navigation.
2. Select **Fields**.
3. Select **New Field**.
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`.
  - **Field Type:** Select *Single Value* or *Multiple Values* and associate it with a prompt, if desired. This will configure the **value** to be *Store Prompt ID.* See [Prompts](/v1/docs/prompts) for more information. If storing a free-text value (or special prompt), the **value** will be *Store Value*.
5. Click **Save.**

**📖Further reading:** [Fields & Prompts Overview](/v1/docs/fields-prompts-overview)

## ➡️ Up next: Materials

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

> [!NOTE]
> 📚 **Next article in this series:** [Materials Overview](/v1/docs/materials-overview)

## Related

- [Application Testing Best Practices](/application-testing-best-practices.md)