Throughout the system you will see information in the SchoolFront Main Window displayed in data grids. Data grids allow you to browse records, search records, and filter records upon command. After you sort and filter records in a data grid. You can export the data into Microsoft Excel™ and/or save the display as a personal "view" which you can use to recall the display you configured whenever you need it.
See the links below for assistance with functions listed above:
In the example below, a data grid from the "Time & Attendance" section is shown.
You can use SchoolFront data grids to quickly track down and view records. With this function you can also easily aggregated system information without having to create a special report, you can also create and save multiple personalized data grid "views" which will allow for all data to be accessible in a personalized format.
Browse Records in the Data Grid
Data grids usually contain many records, and each record contains numerous amounts of data. The volume of information is usually too large to completely fit on your computer screen, therefore it's displayed using scrolling and sometimes needs multiple pages to fully display.
Scroll Bars Allow You to See Up and Down, Left and Right
To browse through all records in the data grid, you can navigate using the scroll bars on the right-side (to go up and down) and bottom of the grid (to go left and right).
The example grid pictured below is the "Manage Students" grid. You can see the scroll bars on the right and bottom of the grid.
Pages Allow You to See More Records
To browse multiple pages of records, choose a page number from the page dropdown in the bottom left of the grid. You can also go to the next page by pressing the "Next" button.
How do the Checkboxes work?
The grid will keep a running count of how many boxes are selected, to the right of the page selection options.
- If one or multiple boxes are checked, any button you press above the grid will apply to all selected records.
- Number of selected items will display.
- If zero records are selected, any button you press above the grid will apply to all selected records.
- Number of selected items will not display.
- If any amount of records are selected, changed, and disappear from your grid they will still show as selected. Press the "Clear All" button above the grid to clear out hidden selected records.
- Example: I filter a grid to have 100 records and I change 50 of them. The 50 I changed are technically still on this grid, but no longer fit my filters. The grid still shows "50 Selected". The way to remedy this would be to press the "Clear All" button.