PSCB - Customization (Quick Contacts)

Submitted by PSCB on Mon, 01/13/2020 - 5:26pm

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Version 1.9

Description

This plugin is a variation of the Quick Contacts plugin previously created by Scott Owen and is published on PowerData Solutions with his permission.

PSCB development thanks Scott and acknowledges his contribution as the original developer of the project.

This version adds a Contacts Icon to header on all student pages in the admin portal. When clicked the following contact information is displayed:

Contact Name
Relationship
Phone Numbers
Custody
Lives With
Emergency Contact
School Pickup

Acknowledgements

Primary Contributor/Developer
Scott Owen
Joseph M. Knight

PSCB Development Team
Rob Staats
Manjit Basra
Michael Moore

Version Info

1.0 (2020-01-13)
- Initial Release

1.1 (2020-01-14)
- Contacts are now sorted in priority order.

1.2 (2020-01-21)
- Only active contacts are now displayed in the pop-up window.

1.3 (2020-01-30)
- Contacts with expired end dates are not displayed in the pop-up window.
- Contact phone numbers are now listed in priority order.

1.4 (2020-03-05)

The following updates/enhancements was provided by Joseph M. Knight.
- Fixed issue where contacts with more than one address would appear multiple times.
- Contact flags are now marked with a "check" image instead of displaying Yes or No.

1.5 (2020-03-17)
Contact notes have been added to the popup window. If notes have been entered for a student, a message icon will appear next to the contact name. Hover over the icon and the Contact/Student notes will appear.

1.6 (2020-04-19)
- Added email addresses and Receives Mail flag.

1.7 (2020-09-04)
- Page now supports PS Translations for contacts column headers.

1.8 (2020-10-02)
- Phone numbers with extensions now display correctly.

1.9 (2021-01-21)
- Added student email to the report header.

Powerschool Compatible Versions

19.x, 20.x

Additional Plugin Requirement

The following PSCB plugins should be installed prior to the installation of this reports bundle.

PSCB - Base Resources

Installation

Install in System > System Settings > Plugin Management Configuration

Do not unzip the plugin. Install the entire zip file. Be sure to enable the plugin once it's installed.

If you are updating, you can now click on the Plugin name and then use the Update button, and then browse to the new file and click Submit and it will then load the update and then ask you to enable it.

Instructions

Select a school and navigate to the Powerschool start page.
Select a student.
Click the Contacts Icon located in the student header.

Customization:

Report Type: 
Web Based Report
Compatible PS Versions: 
20.x, 19.x
Plugin: 
Y
CPM Import Friendly: 
Y

Comments

hubbelld

Fri, 01/24/2020 - 9:30am

This is a great feature and my staff love it. Something to consider for a future release would be adding the "School Pickup" column. Thanks for making all of these great customization's available.

sue.costello

Fri, 01/24/2020 - 11:00am

We noticed that the contact names when clicking on this icon come up in the correct priority order but the phone numbers for the contacts do not come up in priority order.
Maybe you know about this and it is on the next update?
Thank you!

PSCB

Fri, 01/24/2020 - 2:35pm

Phone number priority will be addressed release. We also plan to add the School Pickup Flag.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

lmcclure

Mon, 02/10/2020 - 10:36am

Any thoughts as to why the icons would not be appearing?

PSCB

Mon, 02/10/2020 - 11:20am

Re-install and enable the plugin. Confirm that you have permissions to view the student contacts page.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

mellsworth

Mon, 02/10/2020 - 4:14pm

We are noticing that all mothers, fathers and most emergency contacts are displaying twice. We've cleaned up all our duplicates in the contacts. Any reason it would be doing this? Marta Ellsworth

PSCB

Mon, 02/10/2020 - 5:24pm

Navigate to a student that is displaying duplicates on the Quick Contacts screen.

Click on the Contacts link on the student left navigation menu. Do you also see the duplicates on the screen?

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

mellsworth

Tue, 02/11/2020 - 10:41am

No I do not see duplicates when clicking on the contacts screen.

PSCB

Wed, 02/12/2020 - 6:25pm

Please send a screen shot of the Students Contacts screen and the Quick Contacts screen for a selected student.

Send to: pscb.development@gmail.com

Thanks

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

deidoloric

Wed, 02/12/2020 - 10:43am

I have duplicates as well and didn't with the last version.

PSCB

Wed, 02/12/2020 - 6:24pm

Please send a screen shot of the Students Contacts screen and the Quick Contacts screen for a selected student.

Send to: pscb.development@gmail.com

Thanks

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

mbsouthard

Wed, 02/19/2020 - 8:23am

This is a great plugin. However, it would be even better if the display didn't show No for those fields that are blank. Can it be changed to display Yes/No/or nothing, when the data hasn't been checked either way. Displaying No for those is a little misleading.

PSCB

Wed, 02/19/2020 - 10:03am

We will add this request to the PSCB enhancement list.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

ldcoleman

Fri, 07/31/2020 - 2:45pm

I too am having trouble with this plugin displaying. I am on PS version 12.4.2. I have deleted the plugins and reinstalled and still no luck. I have many PSCB plugins and never had issues before. Any thoughts?

LaDonna

ldcoleman

Fri, 07/31/2020 - 3:31pm

I believe I have figured it out. I had customized the CSS file for two custom alerts. When I removed that customization all worked well. Now I just need to figure out how to make the custom alerts work. More Research!

dorothy.tribble

Sat, 08/01/2020 - 1:27pm

But I don't see these reports. Where am I supposed to be seeing them?

d

PSCB

Sat, 08/01/2020 - 6:08pm

This plugin is not a collection of reports. After installing the plugin, select a student. You should see a "people" icon in the student header. Click on the icon. A pop-up window will appear and display the contacts.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

tstrupp

Tue, 09/22/2020 - 11:42am

If you have a contact with an end date they are still showing on the Quick Contacts.

BKiehl@shsd.k12...

Tue, 10/13/2020 - 5:01pm

I installed this plugin and enabled it but the icon is not showing to click on for the pop up. I was wondering if it had anything to do with me creating a lot of custom alerts over the years.

PSCB

Tue, 10/13/2020 - 6:00pm

If the icon is not showing that usually indicates a conflict with a previous customization.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

ablazey

Thu, 12/03/2020 - 11:59am

Hi,
I am seeing this on a few contacts. What does that mean? I havent seen anything after it. Thanks!

Alison Blazey
ablazey@ehtp.org
Data and Systems Manager
KIPP NYC College Prep

PSCB

Thu, 12/03/2020 - 1:30pm

The (P) indicates that the email address has been marked as the Primary email address.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

ablazey

Tue, 01/12/2021 - 9:25am

Morning,
It would be great to also have student email in this icon. It could be the one stop shop for all contacts. Thanks!

Alison Blazey
ablazey@ehtp.org
Data and Systems Manager
KIPP NYC College Prep

PSCB

Thu, 01/21/2021 - 11:32am

Student email has been added to the report header.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

pgiampaolo

Mon, 03/15/2021 - 12:59pm

Hello,
We recently implemented an image server following the official documentation, and additionally copied over the custom pages directory as well as some plugins seemed to rely on it.

However, now when we click on the icon on a student page, it just shows "no records found". Checking the network log in Chrome does not reveal any errors in the script loading, but its obviously not able to find the right information.

Any help would be appreciated.

PSCB

Mon, 03/15/2021 - 5:50pm

This a server related issue that PSCB Development can not provide assistance to correct.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

pgiampaolo

Wed, 03/17/2021 - 11:04am

Hi, thank you for the response. With all due respect, I do not believe the issue is on our end.

We have correctly configured the server and it functions perfectly for all built in PowerSchool functions, as well as 99% of our plugins. This particular plugin is the only one we have noticed no longer works.

We have made sure to copy all the scripts, wildcards, etc folders onto the image server so they can still be accessed. It just seems the fact it is being called from a different location has broken the functionality. If you really cannot help it is understandable, but at least you should be aware that it will not work on an otherwise working image server.

PSCB

Wed, 03/17/2021 - 11:39am

Thanks for the feedback, we will explore the issue further. It will complicated to test, because we to not work any districts that are using an image server. Hopefully we can correct the issue you have encountered.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

bmyrdek

Fri, 04/02/2021 - 1:39pm

v1.9 is not working on my PS v20.11.2. It displays an error message box when you click on the icon. I reinstalled v1.8 just fine.

PSCB

Mon, 04/05/2021 - 12:37pm

Download a new copy of version 1.9. Re-install and enable. If you continue to receive an error, please send a screenshot to pscb.development@gmail.com.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

SewCrazy2

Wed, 05/05/2021 - 9:06am

What determines if a contact displays in the alert? Some pull up correctly while others do not. One student only has 3 contacts and for some reason the mother is not listed when I click the alert but she is at the top when I click contacts.

PSCB

Wed, 05/05/2021 - 11:42am

The contact must have the active status box checked. If you use start and end dates, the current date must fall in that range.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

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