Give parents the ability to print directory search results to Excel file

Currently, parents only have the option to print directory search results to PDF, but there are so many more instances where a parent needs information from the directories in a spreadsheet format. Say you have a parent who is tasked with coordinating something for their child’s grade or class. Currently, their only option is to either look up every child individually and copy paste each parent’s email address from the directory or to copy paste it from a pdf of the directory. So tedious! Since we are already providing this information to parents, why not let them download it in a format they can more easily use? Plus, giving parents the ability to download an Excel file (.xls or .csv) would save countless hours of work each year for the staff members who are tasked with creating these lists for the parents who don’t want to sit there and copy paste 60+ email addresses.

  • Katherine Monk
  • Aug 12 2023
K-12 Core / Directory
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  • Natalie Kingsbury commented
    18 Mar 17:36

    Hi Katherine,


    The workaround we found for this is creating a community group for parents by grade-level using a smartgroup list. This way, parents can go into the group and use the 'send communication to' feature in the roster tab to grab all parent emails.


    We still would like the excel export enhancement that you're suggesting for home addresses as some parents have paper invites for other events (e.g., bar and bat mitzvahs) that we would like to avoid doing for them. Us doing it for them makes it difficult because when we do download that information, we then have go to through each parent's privacy settings to make sure we're not sharing out someone's address that has requested their information to be private to other parents.

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