Set Up Admissions Status
No configuration setup is required in J1 Desktop to support the Admissions Status feature.
Configuration settings in Campus Portal can be done by roles with permission to access and administer global and portlet settings.
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If you are an administrator and need help setting up and configuring this feature, see the detailed setup sections below.
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Only ONE Admissions Administrator should perform this step.
Note
These settings only apply to the current instance of the Admission Status feature. If you choose to put this feature on multiple pages, you must configure each instance of the feature accordingly.
You can order and/or hide the following candidacy items to indicate how you would like them to display in the Field of Study section: Location, Expected Incoming Classification, Education Goal, Entry Term, Major, and Secondary Major.
Log in as the Campus Portal administrator and access the Admissions Status feature.
From the Admin Toolbar, click Settings. The Settings page appears.
The options on the Settings page determine where each of the items are located (or hidden) in the Field of Study section. Select one of the following values from each of the drop-down lists:
Hide
Display First
Display Second
Display Third
Display Fourth
Display Fifth
Display Sixth
Click Save Changes.
Click the Back to Admissions Status link.
Log in to the Campus Portal as an administrator and navigate to the appropriate feature page.
From the Admin Toolbar
, click Access. The Access page appears. Campus Portal roles that have access to that page are indicated by a green visible 
symbol while roles that do not have access are indicated by the red hidden 
symbol.Click on the Campus Portal role you are setting up permissions for. If the role has not already been granted access to the page, click the button to toggle it to Visible
. Additional permissions appear.To grant administrative privileges to a Campus Portal role, click the button for the Allow this role to manage this page permission to move the toggle to "Yes". Administrative permissions will allow the users in the role to add or remove features and set page and feature level permissions.
From the in New Account Messaging use the toggle buttons to set permissions.
To give this user role access to a global operation on the page, click on the No button next to the global operation. The button toggles to Yes to indicate that the role now has that permission.
To remove this user role's access to a global operation on the page, click on the Yes button next to the global operation. The button toggles to No to indicate that the role no longer has that permission. Repeat for each permission option attached to the role.
Changes are saved automatically.
These settings apply globally to the whole system.
Log in as the Campus Portal administrator.
From the Admissions Status feature, click the Setup option.The Stage Configuration page appears. The stages from J1 Desktop are displayed on this page. If a new stage is added in J1 Desktop, the stage and its description automatically appear on this page.
In the Define the "Apply Link" section, choose the application that should be used for stages that are set to show an apply link. Click the Save button in the Define the "Apply Link" box to save the new application link.
Configure the following for each stage:
Portlet Stage: Select this checkbox if you want this stage to display in the Status section of the Admissions Status feature.
Portlet Stage Message: Enter a message that will appear in the Admissions Status feature if the candidate's current J1 Desktop stage is a Campus Portal stage (i.e., the Portlet Stage checkbox is selected for this stage).
Non Portlet Stage Message: Enter a message that will appear in the Admissions Status feature if the candidate's current J1 Desktop stage is not a Campus Portal stage (i.e., the Portlet Stage checkbox is not selected for this stage). You may want to display a custom generic message to candidates rather than stages like "Held" or "Defer."
Show Apply Link: Select this checkbox if you want the apply link to display in the Your Next Step section of the Admissions Status feature. This checkbox should be selected only for those stages that are pre-application stages.You may see additional stages that you can configure depending on how your school has the feature setup.
Click the Save button at the bottom of the Stage Configuration page to save the changes to the stage settings.