Application form customisation
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      2. Course 3 - Application process in detail
      3. Application form customisation

      Vital data transfer checks before launching your form

      Application Form Steps

      We strongly recommend that you check to ensure any question that you don't want parents to skip is marked as required to ensure the data is not missing later. Any document attachments that are also required should be marked as compulsory.

      • The following are ones we recommend you mark required as a minimum

        • Step 1: Basic Details

            • First Name, Last Name, Preferred Name, Gender, Date of Birth
            • Address fields (except district and County)
            • Ethnicity, Ethnicity Source
            • First Language, First Language Source
            • Home Language
            • Religion

        • Step 2: Parent/ Carers

          • Minimum number of required contacts
            • E.g. Minimum of 2 parental contacts or 1 Parental and 1 Additional Contacts
            • Total number of contacts required overall
          • Title
          • Relationship
          • The required phone numbers from each contact e.g. Mobile and or Home number
          • Email
          • Parental Responsibility
          • Should receive reports
          • Should receive school communications
          • Is there a court order?
          • Parental Address (all required except district and County)
          • Priorities collection is active
            • Priority 1 is required

        • Step 3: Medical Information

          • Looked After

          • Does your child have an SEN?

            • Type of SEN

          • Medical Practice

          • Optional fields

            • Medical Conditions
            • Dietary Needs
            • Disabilities

        • Step 4: Consents

          • Parental Consent
          • Mode of Travel to School
          • Policies
      • User Defined Fields

      Only the default MIS fields provided with the system can be saved back to your MIS. If you create a custom question, you will not be able to save this back to your MIS. You will be able to see this as the field will not have an MIS Logo in the customise application area.

      If you would like to collect a custom questions and still save it to your MIS, you can create a User Defined Field in your MIS and then add this question into your form.

      Instructions for adding UDFs


      • Process of testing an integration