Parent Directory with Students

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According to BB support there is no way to have a parent directory that lists a parents' students or a student directory that lists a students' parents. These seem like it defeats the purpose of a directory. Does anyone have a workaround?
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  • Laura Lang
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    We added their students in our profile display form by adding a relationship. So if you search for parent Joe Smith, when you click on him to view his info, it does show both his spouse and his children at the the school right under neath his profile info.
  • Jaime Lassman 2
    Jaime Lassman 2 ✭
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    There are some variables at play here, but I have something similar that is working. If you are a school, you are probably using EE? The biggest variable will be your data. I know lots of schools keep track of parents and families in different ways. It may be that my solution does not work if you track relationships differently in EE.



    We have a directory pulling students to the page and on a linked profile display page we also include a Relationship Profile Display part. This allows us to bring in parent data and sibling data to the child's profile display page.
  • Kathleen Morton
    Kathleen Morton ✭
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    Jaime ~



    I see how you added the relationships for the family, but how did you get the Student's name to appear on top? I can't see a place to add student info unless I added it as an attribute.



    Am I missing something? Also, I'm assuming you did the customization of headings/colors in CSS. Correct?
  • Kathleen Morton
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    So I discovered you do this through EE Profile Display for the Student.



    Now I'm wondering how much you can customize through CSS. Are the words "Jack's Family" something through an EE attribute?



    The address is also pushing really close to the Cell and Email address for me.
  • Jaime Lassman 2
    Jaime Lassman 2 ✭
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    Sorry, I'm a few days late on this response. This is the Relation Profile Display part that connects to EE. If you are not a school or you don't use Education Edge, I don't think this would be an option.



    The Relationship Profile Display is a little different in setup than the regular one, but for the most part, the styling is coming through CSS. Much of it is coming straight out of part defaults and general CSS that Blackbaud created when we launched with them. (H1, H2, H3 type stuff)



    The design of the page actually combines a Profile Display (EE) part and a Relation Profile Display part. Jack's Family is coming from the Profile Display (EE) part and is styled as H1.










    If there were issues with spacing, I went in and discovered the specific names of the elements and added some custom CSS (margins, padding, width type stuff) as needed.



    It is not beautiful, but it is functional.

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