Navigating Settings

Working with the Settings Menu

If you have administrator access in Outcomes, you can access the Settings menu. The available options here are dependent on the features available to your organization.

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Your Settings menus may include:

Menu Description Included Settings

Organization
Use this area to configure settings related to your organization's account, features, and users.
  • General: manage your account’s time zone, domain, and Single Sign-On settings.
  • Users: view, manage, or create user accounts, view their email, role, and last log-in.  
  • Roles: view, manage, or create roles and permissions.
  • Workspaces: view, manage, or create workspaces to further manage which features users can interact with.
  • Teams: view, manage, or create review teams.
Portals Use this area to configure settings related to your portals (e.g., Student Portal, Inquiry Portal, etc.)
  • Student Portal: manage settings of your Student Portal (the site applicants use to learn about your programs and complete their initial or supplemental applications).
  • Inquiry Portal: manage the settings and appearance of the portal containing your inquiry forms.

Contacts
Use this area to configure settings related to the Contacts view.
  • Contact Types: create and review contact types (e.g., Applicant, HS Coach, Parent.)
  • Contact Segments: view, manage or create segments and their filters, including Type, Name, Category, Conditions.
  • Contact Summary Views: define the summary view for each contact type with organized custom data layouts.
  • Contact Routing Tables: establish criteria for automatically assigning contact types to specific team members.
  • Contact Workflows: view and manage workflows for contacts.
  • Pending Contacts: review and activate Student Portal accounts that have been initiated but not activated, and resend activation emails.
  • Inquiry Forms: manage your public-facing inquiry forms (e.g., Open House Registration, General Inquiry Form, etc.) and their questions.
  • Email Templates: view, manage, and create email templates for contacts.


Application Setup

Use this area to configure settings related to applicant-facing items, including your application, email templates, and programs.
  • Programs: manage programs, including their open dates, deadlines, initial applicant questions, and supplemental requirements.
  • Program Properties: review and manage the list of properties that can be populated for each program.
  • Application Properties: review and manage the list of properties that can be populated for each applicant.
  • Applicant Forms: establish the forms and custom questions that are available on applications.
  • Reference Forms: establish the forms and custom questions that are available for references/recommenders.
  • Reference Portal: manage the settings and appearance of the portal for references/recommenders.
  • Email Templates: view, manage, and create email templates for applicants.
  • Content Templates: manage custom HTML and other content for use within your portals.
  • Stage Templates: manage custom stage configurations that can be applied to programs.

Application Review
Use this area to manage settings related to your review and organization of applications.
  • Application Summary View: customize the appearance of the summary section and panes for all applications.
  • Application Timeline Summary: customize the application timeline for all applications.
  • Evaluation Forms: customize evaluation (review) forms for reviewers to complete.
  • Phases: customize the stages of your review process by creating and mapping out your phases, including configuring how reviews are assigned.
  • Application Segments: view, manage, or create customized queries to organize applicants and work with them in batch.
  • Review Routing Tables: view, manage, or create sets of criteria for assigning applications.
  • Automation: view and manage your automated actions to occur with desired groups of applicants or contacts at a predetermined time. 
  • Workflows: view and manage actions that should occur on individual applicants based on your desired triggers. 

Marketing
Use this area to configure settings related to the Marketing tools.
  • Email Info: customize your marketing email information, including your domain, default From and Reply-To email addresses, and website address.
  • Text and Voice: define the phone number used for text and voice messaging.
  • Conversations: customize the settings related to your conversations.
  • Suppressed Items: view and manage email addresses and phone numbers that have been opted out or may be invalid.
Calendar Use this area to configure settings related to your events.
  • Event Types: view and manage the types of events that you will coordinate in Outcomes.
  • Inquiry Forms: manage your public-facing inquiry forms (e.g., Open House Registration, General Inquiry Form, etc.) and their questions.

Import/Export
Use this area to configure exports of applications, documents, or data.
  • Contact Data Sources: view, manage, create, or rank data sources (Google Sheets, Webhook, MailChimp) to import and prioritize Contacts data.
  • Exports: View, manage, or create customized exports of application or contact data.
  • Export Destinations: view, manage, or create destinations for exports to be delivered. 
  • Translation Tables: Define reusable translation rubrics to convert data values in exports. This is most useful if you need export data to be sent to another system in a specific format.
  • Field Dictionary: search through and review a comprehensive list of application-related fields.

System
Use this area to manage items related to your email configuration, payment processing, and other system processes.
  • Email Templates: view, manage, or create email templates to be sent from Outcomes.
  • Payments: view, manage, or create payment providers.
  • API Keys: generate and manage permissioned API keys to provide credentials for remote services to access your data. Also access API references.
  • Function Library: view and manage custom functions used for coding with JavaScript in Outcomes.