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Maintaining general setup data

Some aspects of the Synergetic functions can be configured to suit your organisation's needs.

Lookup tables

Lookup tables can be maintained using Lookup Table Maintenance. See Maintaining lookup tables.

Lookup table

Description

See

luCampus

Used to define the campuses that your organisation uses.

luCampus lookup table

luDepartment

Used to define academic areas or departments within your organisation.

luDepartment lookup table

luFileType

Used to specify file types to distinguish types of classes. See Files types in the Introduction manual.

luFileType lookup table

luFileType-
Program

Used to define co-curricular programs.

luFileTypeProgram lookup table

luForm

Used to define the forms that your organisation uses

luForm lookup table

luHouse

Used to define house groupings used by your organisation.

luHouse lookup table

luRoom

Used to define rooms used at your organisation.

luRoom lookup table

luYearLevel

Define:

  • if and how to transfer students to the next academic year
  • whether to clear or keep certain student data when transferring to the next academic year
  • other standard options for each year level, such as the year level coordinators.

luYearLevel lookup table

luYearLevel-
Group

Define groups of year levels. For example, group years 7-9 together to more easily bulk-set certain features.

luYearLevelGroup lookup table

luTaskStatus

Used to control the available status options for tasks. For example:

  • Pending external action
  • In progress
  • Complete.

luTaskStatus lookup table

Key configuration settings

This section outlines configuration settings that apply throughout Synergetic.

The following settings are not usually changed but affect the way some Synergetic functions work.

Configuration setting

Description

See

BlankTasksList

Used to set whether the task list is displayed when logging in, even though there are no tasks to display.

BlankTasksList configuration setting

Calendar:
Enabled

Used to determine whether the calendar is enabled.

Calendar:Enabled configuration setting

CountryCode

Used to set the country that applies for your organisation. Some Synergetic functions operate differently to meet the specific needs of each country.

CountryCode configuration setting

CustomIcon-
Transparent-
Colour

Used to set the colour that Synergetic treats as transparent when displaying custom icons.

CustomIconTransparentColour configuration setting

Default:-
CountryOfBirth-
Code

Used to set the default country of birth when adding a new student record.

Default:CountryOfBirthCode configuration setting

FirstDayOfWeek

Used to set the first day of the academic week.

FirstDayOfWeek configuration setting

Override-
SenderText

Used to update the text automatically inserted into an email message, when sending grid records on behalf of another person.

OverrideSenderText configuration setting

PrivateList:
ExpiryDays

Used to set the number of days before a stored private tag list is set to expire.

PrivateList:ExpiryDays configuration setting

PublicList:
ExpiryDays

Used to set the number of days before a stored public tag list is set to expire. This defaults to 99999 (never to expire).

PublicList:ExpiryDays configuration setting

RegionCode

Used to enable state- or regional-specific data integration functionality.

RegionCode configuration setting

SuburbUpper-
CaseFlag

Used to set whether Suburb field is forced to uppercase or not in Community Maintenance.

This allows New Zealand organisations to set the corresponding City field to False, to comply with NZ postal standards.

SuburbUpperCaseFlag configuration setting

TagList: AlwaysShow

Used to determine whether the Tag List window is shown on startup.

TagList:AlwaysShow configuration setting

TagList: AutoClose

Used to determine whether the Tag List window is automatically closed when empty.

TagList:AutoClose configuration setting

Last modified: 8/04/2015 1:57:59 PM

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luCampus lookup table

luDepartment lookup table

luFileType lookup table

luForm lookup table

luHouse lookup table

luRoom lookup table

luYearLevel lookup table

luYearLevelGroup lookup table

luTaskStatus lookup table

BlankTasksList configuration setting

Calendar:Enabled configuration setting

CountryCode configuration setting

CustomIconTransparentColour configuration setting

Default:CountryOfBirthCode configuration setting

FirstDayOfWeek configuration setting

OverrideSenderText configuration setting

PrivateList:ExpiryDays configuration setting

PublicList:ExpiryDays configuration setting

RegionCode configuration setting

SuburbUpperCaseFlag configuration setting

TagList:AlwaysShow configuration setting

TagList:AutoClose configuration setting

© 2015 Synergetic Management Systems. Published 6 May 2015.

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