How to Use: Print to SchoolFront

Note: TLS 1.2 is required for encryption. Users will need to support this on clients in order to use Print-to-SchoolFront on them.

Applicable Roles

• Administrator
• HR Admin
• HR Team
• IT Administrator
• Business Office

All other roles have access to Print to SchoolFront if one of their available roles has access to a specific personnel folder. If you have multiple roles of any permission level, you will have access to all personnel folders available to your given roles. For more information on Roles and permissions with Personnel Folders, please reference the "Permissions" section in Personnel Folders - Managing and Security. 

Prerequisites

Print to SchoolFront: System Requirements & Installation

Contents

Instructions

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Errors

Instructions

1. Save the document (if this document is paper, scan and then save it) to your computer
2. Open the document that will be saved to the personnel file
3. Click "Print"
4. Select "SchoolFront" from the drop-down menu of available printers, as the "destination printer"
5. Click Print

6. The Pop-Up "Print to SchoolFront" will display
7. In the Personnel Folder drop-down, select which folder the document should be placed in
8. In the Employee drop-down, select the employee that the document belongs to
9. Enter a name for the document in "File Name" (It is best to keep the name of the document consistent with the name used for it throughout the district)
10.  Additionally, a date prefix or suffix can be part of the file naming convention. If not required, select "None"
11. To preview the file prior to upload, click "Preview PDF File"
12. Click "Upload File" / Click "Cancel" to back out and do nothing

Settings Note: If the system asks for your SchoolFront credentials, click "Settings" in the top right corner of the pop-up.

1. Enter your SchoolFront username and password (the original, not your SSO credentials if that is how you login, these must be the credentials of the workstation employee, NOT the IT Administrator)
2. Click Save and you can continue OR click "Agree" if the system asks about Ghost Scripts

View File

After Upload File is clicked, the file will automatically upload to the selected Employee’s Personnel Folder:

Errors in Print to SchoolFront Output

In some cases, if the original document being saved through Print to SchoolFront is an encrypted or password protected PDF with limits on functionality such as whether the file is allowed to be printed, it can result in errors in the output file such as seen below. For more information on errors, please reference the "Errors" section in: Print to SchoolFront: System Requirements & Installation

If this happens you may either save the PDF directly to the employee's personnel folder or disable the password protection or limits on functionality for the file before using Print to SchoolFront to save the file into the personnel folder(s).