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Archive Terms In Academic Term Dropdown Menu

Keon Hercules

February 10, 2020 18:11

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Under Academics, Academic Term; In the drop-down menu where we select which term we would like to work in. It would be nice if we could archive previous terms or a way to drill down the list to more recent terms. 

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  Cyndi Myers February 10, 2020 18:16

  Hi! 

  I posted a very similar request last week, go vote for it? https://support.populiweb.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360038839054-Categorize-and-Order-Terms

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  Evan Donovan February 10, 2020 19:03

  Cyndi Myers: I think that this request might be a little easier to implement, so I'm just going to vote for this one, sorry.
  
  I think in the use case for my school, all we would want would be the ability to archive really old terms so that they didn't show up in the Reporting menu, or to make it so that terms way in the future didn't show yet. That way, the current term would be at the top.

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  Cyndi Myers February 10, 2020 19:08

  But what we all realy need is both the ability to archive old terms as well as put a priority/order number on terms, that way we can all customize for our individual schools what shows at the top/first option in a drop down menu. 

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  Evan Donovan February 10, 2020 19:16

  I guess it depends on how it were implemented. For us, we don't need the old ones or the future ones to show at all, whereas it sounds like in your use case, you do need to see the sub-terms, so you might need a secondary menu dropdown to organize. Am I understanding that right?

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  Cyndi Myers February 10, 2020 19:21

  Not quite. I don't think having an additional menu would be helpful. Most of our terms have different names by different campus, so unless that was the additional menu, it wouldn't be the right solution. 

  Having a way to order all the values in the drop down menu would allow us to group the prompts in categories that made sense to us - whether it was by superterm or campus or anything we want. 

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  Evan Donovan February 10, 2020 19:43

  Oh got it. When you said "categorize terms" on your post, I was seeing it as more of a drill down.
  
  I think that ordering terms might be the easiest for Populi to implement that would satisfy all our use cases. Not sure which of the 2 feature requests would be best to consolidate for that.