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Using the Search WidgetΒΆ

Full use of SchoolTool’s search widget’s features can significantly speed up enrollment and other operations. To demonstrate, we will create a new group “Cats” made up of a selection of students. This represents what some systems call a “form,” which is a group that attends most classes together.

The group has been created and we’re at the Add/Remove Members page:

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If you enter text in the search field, you will get hits from people whose first name, last name, or ID contain that text.

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For example, the string “van” will return Lucy van Pelt and Linux van Pelt (after you click Find Now):

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Clicking Invert Selection will select both names (and unselect any that are selected):

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And Add adds the selected people to the group:

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When you have many people, it is very handy to limit the search by group. You can enter a search string and also select a group from the drop down menu:

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The search results will be limited to the selected group:

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Selecting a group with no text string will return all the members of the selected group.

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Note that the members of the selected group that already are members of the group you’re editing will not be included in the search results.