📚 Part of the series Application Building Phase II: The Slate-hosted Application

Your Slate for Admission database comes with a Slate-hosted application, a fully customizable online application that allows applicants to submit information, upload materials, and pay application fees.

The articles in this second phase of the application-building process, Application Structure, are organized in the following sections:

1. The Application Editor: Use the Application Editor to configure the Slate-hosted application’s overall structure.

2. Application Pages: Customize the application’s individual pages.

3. Application Submission Requirements: Establish application logic to prevent submission without certain information.

4. Application Testing: Make sure the applicant experience is smooth.

The Application Editor

Configure high-level settings for the Slate-hosted application in Database → Application Editor. Here, you’ll find a list of your application bases, and, under each base, the base’s application rounds.

📖 Further reading: Introduction to The Application Editor

Application creation form

If you have a scholarship, honors application, or specific program that doesn’t require the full application treatment, you can let applicants submit their application as a single form. This form can also work as a shorter version of your primary application (like a fast app).

Save time by importing our example application creation form into your database.

Application pages

By default, the Slate-hosted application comes with a number of pages that applicants move between as they fill out their information.

These include:

• Instructions

• Personal background

• Enrollment information

• Education history

• Test scores

• References

• Relationships

• Employment history

• Sports

• Activities/interests

• Signature

• Review

If these pages don’t collect the information you want applicants to provide, they can in almost every case be overridden with custom pages.

And if you don’t see a page listed here that you’d like to see, you can create new ones as needed.

📖 Further reading: Introduction to Slate-hosted application pages

Customizing the Slate-hosted application

The pages of the Slate-hosted application are customized with the form builder, a simple drag-and-drop experience that is likely familiar to you by now.

Application submission requirements

You can warn applicants that they’re missing required information with application logic.

📖 Further reading: Introduction to Submission Requirements

Testing your application

Before you go live with your Slate-hosted application, test it thoroughly by impersonating an applicant.  

To preview the Slate-hosted application as the applicant would see it:

1. Go to Records.

2. Select the default test record, Alexander Hamilton.

3. Select the Application tab (the default name is [Your University] Application).

4. Select Impersonate > Applications.

   

5. Explore the application as the applicant would see it.

As you build out your application, this is a tool you will likely come back to repeatedly.

📖 Further reading: Application Testing

➡️ Next up: The Application Editor

Our first stop in our tour of the Slate-hosted application is the Application Editor, where we’ll see the standard Slate-hosted application pages and learn how to configure them.

📚 Next article in this series: Introduction to the Application Editor