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This section outlines changes made to the Community Portal (up to version 10).
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SynCommPortal.xml file keys updated. |
The following keys have been added to the SynCommPortal.xml file:
The following keys have been removed from the SynCommPortal.xml file:
The following keys have been renamed:
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SMTP configuration items are now maintained in Synergetic Configuration File Maintenance. |
SMTP configuration items have been moved from XML to Synergetic Configuration File Maintenance:
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New window for viewing cached keys. |
You can use the Community Portal Server Cache Keys window to view lookup tables, data tables, and configuration settings cached by the Community Portal. |
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New side menu configuration setting. |
You can use the TimeTable:SideMenuCSV configuration setting to determine which community members are displayed in the side menu of the Timetable tab. |
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Google Analytics implemented for the Portal. |
Synergetic have implemented Google Analytics to collect usage and performance data about the Community Portal as of version 67.18.
This part of our ongoing commitment to improve functionality and performance across the entire Synergetic suite. Google does not collect personal information and reports provided to Synergetic only show data in an aggregate, non-personal form. |
Customising analytics settings Analytics:CommunityPortal:Enabled configuration setting Analytics:CommunityPortal:School:Enabled configuration setting Analytics:CommunityPortal:School:TrackerID configuration setting |
New single sign on authentication configuration setting. |
You can use the UseSSOTargetUrl configuration setting to determine whether SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) authentication requests redirected to the identity provider (IDP) include the SAML request object. |
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This section outlines changes made to the Community Portal (up to version 9).
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New Crystal Reports configuration setting. |
You can use the EnableCrystalReport configuration setting to determine whether Crystal Reports are displayed on the Community Portal. |
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Field removed from the Menu sub-tab. |
The Menu Render Method field has been removed from the Menu sub-tab of the Configuration window. |
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New options for importing configuration keys. |
You can import configuration keys by clicking either:
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New main menu attribute. |
You can use the Community Member Only Flag attribute on the Menu sub-tab of the Configuration window to determine whether tabs are only displayed to community members.
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New Maintenance settings. |
You can use the Maintenance area fields on the General tab of the Configuration window to enable and customise maintenance mode.
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New HTML Editor sub-tab. |
You can use the HTML Editor sub-tab on the Configuration window to determine the HTML displayed on each page of the Community Portal.
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New side menu configuration setting. |
You can use the EnableYearLevel configuration setting to determine whether year level filtering is enabled for the side menu on the Community Portal. |
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New Change Password tab configuration setting. |
You can use the following configuration settings to determine whether tabs are displayed for parents with only future students. |
Customising the Change Password tab |
New Contact Us tab lookup table. |
You can use the luCampusEmailContacts lookup table to define contacts listed in the Other Contacts area of the Contact Us tab.
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Co-Curricular tab renamed. |
The Co-Curricular tab has been renamed the Electives tab.
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New email configuration setting. |
You can use the Email:SubjectText configuration setting to define the subject text of emails sent to parents and users updating their email details. |
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New Excursion tab configuration settings |
The following Excursions tab configuration settings have been added: |
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New Interviews tab configuration setting. |
You can use the IgnoreClassCampus configuration setting to determine whether classes from different campuses are displayed on the Interviews tab. |
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New Make an Account Payment tab configuration settings. |
The following Make an Account Payment tab configuration settings have been added: |
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New Manage Stored Cards tab configuration settings. |
The following Manage Stored Cards tab configuration settings have been added: |
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New My Details tab lookup table. |
You can use the luFormItems lookup table maintain form items for the My Details page of the Community Portal. |
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New My Details tab configuration settings. |
The following configuration settings for the My Details page have been added: |
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New Parent Contacts tab configuration settings. |
The following configuration settings for the Parent Contacts tab have been added: |
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Payment plan configuration topics moved. |
You can configure payment plans by following the instructions detailed in the Synergetic Online payments manual. |
Synergetic Online payments manual. |
New Payment Plan tab configuration settings. |
The following Payment Plan tab configuration settings have been added: |
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Payment Plan tab configuration settings removed |
The following Payment Plan tab configuration settings have been removed:
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New Payments tab configuration settings. |
The following Payment tab configuration settings have been added: |
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New Results tab configuration setting. |
You can use the Results:ShowStudiesCode configuration setting to determine whether the Studies Code/NSN is displayed on the left-hand side of the Results tab on the Community Portal. |
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New Maintenance configuration setting. |
You can use the LogoutUserMode configuration setting to determine whether users are automatically logged out when maintenance mode is enabled. |
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This section outlines changes made to the Community Portal (up to version 8, as part of 66R2).
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New General configuration settings. |
The following General configuration settings have been added: |
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New SMTP tab added to Admin Configuration. |
You can use the SMTP tab of Admin Configuration to configure SMTP settings for email at your organisation. |
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New side menu configuration settings added. |
The following configuration settings have been added: |
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Action Centre added to the Community Portal. |
You can use the Action Centre of Community Portal to view alerts. |
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New Action Centre configuration settings. |
The following Action Centre configuration settings have been added: |
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New Applications tab configuration settings. |
You can customise configuration settings to determine how application information is displayed on the Applications tab. |
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New Contact Us configuration settings. |
The following Contact Us tab configuration settings have been added: |
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New Co-Curricular tab to display co-curricular electives. |
You can customise the Co-Curricular tab to display student co-curricular electives. |
Customising the Co-curricular tab |
New Docs tab configuration settings. |
The following Docs tab configuration settings have been added: |
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New email configuration settings. |
The following email configuration settings have been added: |
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New Finance tab configuration settings. |
The following Finance tab configuration settings have been added:
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New My Details tab. |
You can customise My Details configuration settings to determine how community member details are displayed on the new My Details tab. |
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Manage Stored Cards configuration settings updated. |
The following configuration settings have been renamed:
The following configuration settings have been added: |
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New voluntary contributions functionality on the Payment Plans tab. |
You can enable voluntary contributions to allow community members to donate to school appeals. |
Customising the Payment Plans tab Enabling voluntary contributions on the Community Portal |
New Payment Plans tab configuration settings. |
The following Payment Plans configuration settings have been added:
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New Payments tab configuration settings. |
The following Payments tab configuration settings have been added: |
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New Parent Contacts tab configuration settings. |
You can customise the new Parent Contacts tab configuration settings to determine how contact sharing fields are displayed. |
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New Results tab configuration setting. |
You can use the EnableClassComments configuration setting to enable class comments on the Results tab. |
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This section outlines changes made to the Community Portal (up to version 8).
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New Disable Cache field in the Admin panel.
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New Disable Cache field in the Admin panel to disable caching of data at an application level
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New Impersonate function in the Admin panel. |
You can use the Impersonate function to view another portal user's account.
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Viewing the Community Portal as a different community member |
Security applied to the Impersonate function.
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New security applied to the Impersonate function requires the portal administrator to have Group/User SELECT security access to the DEB|DebtorMaint setting to view financial details. This is updated by the Synergetic administrator. |
Viewing the Community Portal as a different community member Maintaining security permissions in the Synergetic System maintenance manual. |
New Configuration page in the Admin panel. |
You can adjust main menu and side menu attributes to customise the Community Portal main and side menus.
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New button to create new custom menu items.
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You can create new menu items based on custom pages and user forms using the
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New Import Config keys button added to the Admin panel. |
You can import configuration keys into the Portal 7 render mode using the
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Online configuration - Menu sub-tab
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New Payments tab. |
You can adjust payments configuration settings to customise the Payments tab to suit your organisation's needs. |
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New Payment Plans tab. |
You can adjust payment plan configuration settings to customise the way payment plans are accessed and displayed on the Community Portal. |
Customising the Payment Plans tab luPortalPaymentPlans lookup table Enabling payment plans on the Community Portal Adjusting payment plans on the Community Portal |
New Managed Stored Cards tab. |
You can adjust managed stored cards configuration settings to customise the way credit and debit cards are accessed and displayed on the Community Portal. |
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New Make an Account Payment tab. |
You can adjust the Make an Account Payment tab configuration settings to customise the way payment information is displayed. |
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Events configuration setting removed. |
EventsExcursionsLabel configuration setting has been removed. This functionality is now derived from the Online Payments Maintenance - Levels tab.
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Online Payments Maintenance - Levels tab in the Synergetic Finance manual. |
Finance configuration setting removed |
TransactionDescriptionFlag configuration setting has been removed. This functionality is now derived from the Description on Statement field in Fee Maintenance - General tab.
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Debtor Fee Maintenance - General tab in the Synergetic Debtors manual. |
New Introduction tab configuration settings. |
You can adjust the Introduction configuration settings to change the way information is displayed on the Introduction tab. |
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New Logout tab configuration settings. |
New configuration settings have been created to customise the Logout tab. |
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New MyAccount configuration settings. |
New configuration settings have been created to customise the MyAccount tab. |
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New Self Assessments tab. |
You enable the Self Assessments tab to allow students to enter self assessments online. Note: This does not appear on the Community Portal when the SelfAssessments:EnabledFlag configuration setting is set to true. |
Customising the Self Assessments tab
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New indicator when online payments is in test mode. |
When online payments is in test mode a new test payment indicator is displayed on all payment related pages.
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This section outlines changes made to the Community Portal (up to version 5.13).
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New authentication configuration settings. |
You can enable administration privileges for specified users using the SynCommPortal.xml configuration file. |
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New ability when configuring PTI settings. |
You can set a maximum number of interviews that can be booked per student for each interview cycle. |
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New name configuration ability. |
You can customise how student names appear in the Community Portal. |
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New ability to display maintenance information. |
You can customise how maintenance mode and shutdown related messages are displayed in the Community Portal. |
DisplayOnIntoPage configuration setting OfflineMessage configuration setting |
Extra method to switch into maintenance mode. |
You can manually place the Community Portal into maintenance mode. |
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New tab display configuration settings. |
You can use the ParentPageName, MenuOrder and Text configuration settings to customise how and where tabs appear on the menu bar in the Community portal. |
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New Change Password tab. |
You can configure whether users can change their own password for the Community Portal. |
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New ability to upload spreadsheets. |
You can upload Excel spreadsheets directly to the Accommodation Booking tab. |
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New report ability. |
You can display a confirmation message for reports launched through the Community Portal. |
This section outlines changes made to the Community Portal (up to version 4.47).
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New portal menu configuration settings. |
You can customise:
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New URL configuration settings. |
You can customise the Universal Resource Location (URL) of portal tabs.
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Absences:URL configuration setting Attendances:URL configuration setting ContactUs:URL configuration setting Docs:URL configurations setting Finance:URL configuration setting Introduction:URL configuration setting Logout:URL configuration setting MyAccount:URL configuration setting |
New configuration setting for the Absences tab. |
You can choose whether to only display unexplained absences on the Absences tab.
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New configuration setting for the Attendances tab. |
You can customise the date format on the Attendances tab.
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New Attendances Extended tab. |
You can customise information on the Attendances Extended tab. |
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New configuration settings for the Contact Us tab. |
You can customise the headings for:
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New configuration settings for the Finance tab. |
You can customise:
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New configuration settings for the PTI tab. |
You can customise messages displayed to users when:
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New configuration settings for the Results tab. |
You can customise:
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New custom tabs available. |
You can create custom tabs on the Community Portal.
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New configuration settings for emails sent by the portal. |
You can customise:
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New security configuration settings |
You can customise:
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New Payment Gateway configuration settings. |
You can configure the Community Portal to accept payments via a third party payment gateway. |
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New Single Sign On configuration settings. |
You can configure the Community Portal to allow single sign on with trusted third party vendors. |
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New configuration files for multiple databases. |
You can run the Community Portal against more than one database at a time. For example, against an additional test database. |
Running the Community Portal against multiple database servers |
This section outlines the changes to the Community Portal Configuration manual arising from changes made to the Community Portal (up to version 4.19).
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New authentication configuration settings. |
Five new configuration settings have been added to authenticate users when they are logging in:
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New Absences tab. |
A tab has been added to display the student's absence events. |
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New Attendances tab. |
A tab has been added to display the student's attendances. |
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New Docs tab. |
A tab has been added to publish the selected student's documents on the portal. |
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New Introduction tab. |
A tab has been added to display a custom welcome screen. |
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New My Account tab. |
A tab has been added to display and allow editing of community member's contact details. |
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New Logout tab. |
A tab has been added to allow community members to log out. |
Configuring which tabs to display |
New Contact Us tab configurations |
The configuration setting CommunityPortal>Students>EnableContacts has been removed, and two new configurations have been added to customise whether the Contact Us tab is displayed, and what title to display for the tab in the menu bar:
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New Finance tab configurations |
The configuration setting CommunityPortal>Students>EnableFinance has been removed, and two new configurations have been added to customise whether the Finance tab is displayed, and what title to display for the tab in the menu bar:
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New Results tab configurations |
The configuration setting CommunityPortal>Students>EnableResults has been removed. Nine new configurations have been added to customise:
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New PTI tab configurations |
The configuration setting CommunityPortal>Students>EnablePTI has been removed, and two new configurations have been added to customise whether the Interviews tab is displayed and what title to display for the tab in the menu bar:
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New Timetable tab configurations |
The configuration setting CommunityPortal>Students>EnableTimetable has been removed, and two new configurations have been added to customise whether the Timetable tab is displayed, and what title to display for the tab in the menu bar:
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Look and feel customisation added |
The ability to customise the images, fonts and colour scheme of the community portal using CSS and HTML files has been added. |
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New configuration setting replaces Students>Homepage |
The configuration setting CommunityPortal>Students>Homepage has been removed, and new configuration settings have been added to customise:
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Community Portal Home page |
New configuration settings replace CustomHTML>Greeting and Styles>ShowLastLoginDetails |
The configuration settings CommunityPortal>CustomHTML>Greeting and CommunityPortal>Styles>ShowLastLoginDetails have been removed and eleven new configuration settings have been added to customise the messages displayed on the individual portal tabs:
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New documentation configuration settings |
Three new configuration settings have been added to customise how the portal displays documents that are not stored in the database:
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New email configuration settings. |
Sixteen new configuration settings have been added to customise emails sent from the portal:
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Email settings |
New security configuration settings. |
Three new configuration settings have been added to customise the portal's session length and use of URL encryption:
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Security settings |
New settings to customise the portal configuration for each year level. |
Portal configurations can now be customised per year level using the luYearLevel>CommPortalOverrideConfigKey5 lookup table. |
Customising portal configurations per year level |
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