Change the Title of the Public Portal

Submitted by debbie.harman on Thu, 10/16/2014 - 6:46am

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I would like the public portal home page to read "Parent/Student Sign In" instead of "Parent Sign In" and "Create a Parent Account" instead of "Create an Account". With this url accessed by both parents & students, it is very misleading. Has someone completed this successfully and is willing to share the location(s) in PSM to make that happen?

I have spent a considerable amount of time on my own trying to figure this out in my test environment. I will continue to do so, but I am sure this has had to be an issue for others and there is customization that can help me. Any help is appreciated.

randyrowe

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 10:16am

Debbie,

There are two ways to answer this and it depends on whether you're using Custom Page Management (CPM) or not.

If you are, then all you need to do is update the text item, "psx.html.public.home.parent_sign_in" which represents the title on the public portal home page. You will do this through PS Administrator / Custom Pages.

If you're not using CPM, then you'll need to change the HTML directly. To do this, you will have to create a folder called "public" under your Custom/Web_root folder. Copy the production version of the "home.html" page into this new folder and then edit the following line of code:

CHANGE <h2>~[text:psx.html.public.home.parent_sign_in]</h2> TO <h2>Parent/Student Sign In</h2>

Good Luck!

Randy Rowe
Sr. Applications Analyst
Topeka Public Schools
rrowe@tps501.org

johannaj

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 4:18pm

I believe that at one time I could find them, but now I do not see where the text items are stored. We do use CPM.

Johanna Johanson
Rio Rancho Public Schools

gmyers

Mon, 10/20/2014 - 5:45am

What you need to explore is how to use the localization feature to do English to English translations. As Randy mentioned above there are code strings PowerSchool uses to pull much of the text that appears on a page used to provide the pages in various languages. When you enable localization (allow a choice of languages) one of the things that suddenly is available is access to customize the English translations as well as offer other languages. On our page I have changed the label of the sign in box to, "Student and Parent Sign In" using this feature. I made the change while we were still using version 7.x and did not have to do a thing to it as we upgraded all the way through to 8.1.

https://powersource.pearsonschoolsystems.com/article/72567

Greg Myers
Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hill

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