FORMS New School Year

The procedure to get FORMS ready for a new school year.

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Written by Kevin Gillmor
Updated over a week ago

Prerequisites

Has your database been updated?

Have the seniors been graduated out of the system?

Set the start and end dates in Admin

  • Login to Admin

  • Click on District to display the district name

Double click on your school district name to open up the details

  • Click on the FORMS Settings tab

  • Click on the button with 3 dots to the right of Administrator and/or director

  • This will give you a customer search screen

  • Search for the person who would have to go to court if an issue arose. If they are not in the database, you will have to add them.

  • Do the same for the director. This person will answer parent questions on an application.

  • Fillin the Title and phone number

  • Enter the First day of the fiscal year. We suggest July 1 of the new school year.

  • Enter the Carry over Status Expiration. This would be the 30th day of school excluding weekends and days off.

  • When the expiration date comes, you can run a routine to expire/set back to paid the applications that have not been updated.

Run FORMS Routines and Update income Guidelines

  • Log into FORMS

  • Click on Database and select the routines in the sequence below (1-3)

  • New School Year

  • Flush Invalid Records (these are cleanup routines)

  • Download and import income Guidelines

  • You should get a message that the download was successful. If you do not, Contact our office at 814-317-4400 option 2.

  • You will get an import screen with the path of the file needed. Click Import. You should get a message that the income guidelines have been updated.

  • Click on Income Guidelines (4) and view the current income guidelines.

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