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You open the linking grid and particular records are missing. Perhaps no Students appear in the linking grid or only records you linked previously appear in the linking grid. Why does this happen? There are a few factors that determine which records appear...
Version 7.80 will be released later this quarter and includes loads of new features. Take a look at the new additions to records. The federal reporting requirements are more specific about tracking ethnicity, so we've updated fields and functionality...
Duplicate records are pretty much unavoidable in most databases. Schools with even the strictest data entry policies likely run across separate applicant and student records. Good thing there's the Merge Records Utility to help out. Like Integration...
School may be out, but that doesn't mean you aren't keeping up with your students' summer activities. If your students participate in community service programs such as camps and community cleanup, you may want to track this information and...
This is a guest post by Chuck Hays. Chuck is a Senior Educational Consultant for Blackbaud. During the Spring, you often need to verify new students' information and track them separately from your current students. To streamline the process, use...
You are working in the linking grid and see a record that does not belong, such as a withdrawn student. You right-click on the student’s row and open his Education Edge record, change his status to Withdrawn, and save and close the record. This ineligible...
Linking records through Integration can be a time-consuming task. It can be difficult to determine if matches are correct in the linking grid because sometimes students and parents happen to have the same names (i.e., Jr. and Sr.). Without opening their...
Integration maps fields and relationships between two databases. The synchronization process looks at the database with the most recent update on these linked records. If the records in both programs were updated since the last synchronization, the most...
Course Restrictions define how a course is scheduled from year to year. Without course restrictions, Generate Master Schedule doesn't have a pattern or times restrictions to follow when scheduling classes. As you prepare for next academic year, copying...
In version 7.78, we've added a Business button on the Bio 1 tab of Individual records so you can easily view the individual's primary business information without selecting the record's Relationships tab. When you click the Business button...
I recently had surgery on one of my fingers. As I unsuccessfully attempted to type emails with a huge bandaged finger, I hit the Caps Lock a lot, and then I thought about the Medical tab. It's important to have this information accessible in case...
After a brief absence I’m back and more than happy to help. It’s been a busy fall especially with 7.77 releasing a couple weeks ago. Not to start back on such a downer but an important feature was added to 7.77 for student and applicant records. If a...
Here is a great time saver for those of you that need to manage families with multiple children. You can create billing groups to quickly add or update student, individual, and organization records. Manage Billing Groups, the official name of the feature...