Some step by step directions on how to change what a user sees at the top of each page in the header area. The document describes how to add the current date and day in the rotation to the top of the page as well as the addition of a link to a custom document.
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Teacher name in header
Tried to add teacher name to the header with ^(*period_info;(home room period);teacher_name). Works great except for Edit All Enrollments (editcc.html). The "header teacher" overwrites the selected teacher passed into editcc.html from the all enrollments screen (allenrollments.html). So we couldn't edit enrollments for non-homeroom teachers. Had to disable it.
Would love to know how to fix this--my schools really miss having the teacher in the header. Karina Gallie
re: Teacher name in header
So you want a student's homeroom teacher to show up in the header of every page? Even though not every page is a student page?
Jason Treadwell
Custom Solutions Specialist
jason@powerdatasolutions.org
www.powerdatasolutions.org
Day in rotation not showing
Hello, I have made the suggested changes to the various files and the day in rotation does not show. We have a 6 day cycle called Day A though Day F. The "Today is" and the date show but not the day in rotation. What we do get is (), a set of brackets with no data. Any thoughts as to what I am missing? We are using Premier 5.2.
Re: Day in rotation not showing
Try using ~[eaodate;dayabbr] This will give you the date and the day abbreviation.
Brian Andle
Day in Rotation not showing
Hi Brian , thanks for your response. I am in fact using ~[eaodate;dayabbr] and still we receive only the date not the day in cycle for example we get 12/5/2008 (). I have checked my Cycle_Day table and we do in fact have days for this year labeled A, B, C, D, E & F. But this data will not pull to the page with [eaodate;dayabbr]
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Re: Day in Rotation not showing
Are you logged into a school and not district office? If you are in the district office the day abbreviation will not show.
Brian Andle
Day in rotation not showing
Yes, the high school is the school I am working on and the cycle will not show. This is true on my test server as well (as it should be I guess).
re: Day in rotation not showing
Did you ever get this working? Brian is right, if you are in District office it won't work because DO doesn't have a day rotation. Your school (at the top) has to be one of the schools that has a day rotation and the current date has to be an insession date.
Jason Treadwell
Custom Solutions Specialist
jason@powerdatasolutions.org
www.powerdatasolutions.org
Adding to left hand side of start page
Hello: I am trying to add links (such as for your attendance today (which is great!) to the main start page, left hand side, under "functions"
I have admin/home but for the life of me cannot find that section
for now I have added the link to admin/student/more2. Any idea where this is? Thank you for all your help.
Catharine Teri-Savage
Farmington Public Schools
Re: Adding to left hand side of start page
The file you are looking for is a Wildcard, there is a example included in the download under the Wildcard folder.
Once you copy the file or edit your own you will need to initialize the new Wildcard. You can do this by clicking System->System Settings->Customization then Submit.
Brian Andle
Add Bell Schedule?
Would it be possible to add the bell schedule instead of Day type? I have looked through the official PS list of Object Report codes and another unofficial list and I can't find a code for Bell Schedules. I have just one day, with many periods and I use the Bell Schedules to manage this. Placing the bell schedule in the header would be very useful at my school.
Add Bell Schedule?
I don't know of a way to do that as of right now short of using a tlist. The code listed to show the day in the rotation was only found because PS uses it in another page and I happened upon it. If I can find something I'll post it.
Jason Treadwell
Custom Solutions Specialist
jason@powerdatasolutions.org
www.powerdatasolutions.org