from documentations I have read, it would seems that if an application is made public on the haome page and filled out by a prospective student, the next step woud be for an administartor to either accept or deny the application from the manage appliations tab of the admissions module. Hope I am right so far.
The problem I seem to be facing is even after accepting the application, the student is not automatically made a user, and so i cannot enroll them unless I then have to manually input their details as a new user which would seem to defeat the purpose of having them fill out the application in the first place.
So my question is how do I make an accepted applicant automatically be registered as a user so they can then be enrolled?
Gibbons is a well developed application and I am ammazed at how it solves almost every problem I encounter at our school. Thank you for this great contibution to common grace.
So in the past hour I have discovered what I was doing wrong. I had built a brand new application form as some questions of the default form was not needed by us. In the process I left out some questions that are neccessary to automatically create a user from the applicant and also enrol them automatically.
So just incase anyone like myself gets ahead of themselves and starts tinkering and runs into a similar problem, on the Admin → System Admin → Form builder page, click edit button for the form you created for admissions, scroll down that edit page and make sure the features you want are not found under the “Inactive features” column at the bottom of the page. If it is, look for the database column name mentioned in the column and add it to the form.
Hope my blabbing was understood.
Once again, this is a great product and I am grateful for all the time and effort put in by the developers. The Lord bless you.
Hi @elder Glad to hear you resolved the issue, and thanks for sharing your solution to help other users. Yes, because the form builder is flexible and allows adding and removing a variety of fields, it needs to check if there are minimum fields to perform certain actions. If you don’t want those fields to be visible to the user, you can always add them as office-only fields, which can be filled in before accepting the application.