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The Contact Name details window is displayed first. Enter primary contact name for the student. The primary contact person can be an individual, a company or an individual at a company address (personal company). The fields on the Personal and the Personal Company Contact Name windows are identical.

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Example of a name details window for a personal or personal company.
The Create New Student window is identical to the Create New Community Member window.

Example of a name details window for a company.
The Create New Student window is identical to the Create New Community Member window.

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Create New Student - Contact Name window key fields (Personal)

Field

Description

Contact ID

Use Existing ID

Contact's Synergetic ID number. If the student already exists, select the Use Existing ID field and enter the student's Synergetic ID.

Title

Contact's title.

Surname

Contact's surname.

Any

Select the Any field to search for community members by:

  • surname
  • previous surname
  • maiden name
  • override legal surname.

Given 1

Contact's given name.

Preferred

Contact's preferred name. This field is automatically completed with the primary contact's given name. You may type another name if required. For example, if the primary contact's given name is Stephen, you could type Steve.

Other Given

Contact's other given names.

Gender

Contact's gender. This field is automatically completed when you select the primary contact's title.

Note:
For gender neutral titles the gender must be selected. For example, Dr.

Note: You can define the list of genders used at your organisation using the luGender lookup table. See luGender lookup table.

Note: The following window is displayed when there is a gender mismatch between the Title field and Gender field.

Date of Birth

Contact's date of birth.

Mail format

Address format for the community member. For example, whether their initials should be used, or an ampersand instead of 'and'.

Contact is Student

Either:

  • select the field if the contact is also the student
  • clear the field if not.

If the field is selected, the ParentFlag configuration setting determines whether either the:

  • @PC constituency (Current Parent)
  • @SCOC constituency (Current Student Other Contact)
    is added to the student. See ParentFlag configuration setting in the System maintenance manual.


Create New Student - Contact Name key fields (Company)

Field

Description

ID

Contact's Synergetic ID number.

Use existing ID

If you know the Synergetic ID of an existing community member, select this field and enter the ID into the ID field. The details of the company are retrieved from the community database.

Occupation Description

Description of the company's main business. For example 'Garden Maintenance'.

Company

Company name.

Attention

Name of recipient within the company if required.

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