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Set Up Section Meeting Days for Advanced Search

Provide students with a search field based on section meeting days. To use the Section Meeting Days field in Advanced Search, grant field access and update the day-of-week fields on course offering schedule records by modifying a flow.

Required Editions

Available in: Lightning Experience
Available in: Enterprise, Unlimited, and Developer Editions with Education Cloud
User Permissions Needed
To grant access to objects and fields: Education Cloud Full Access
To modify flows: Manage Flow

Before you start, set up Advanced Search.

  1. To make sure that students and staff can select meeting days in Advanced Search, give them access to the day-of-week fields on Course Offering Schedule.
    1. From Setup, find and select Permission Sets.
    2. Select the cloned version of a permission set that you assign to students and staff who use Course Search.
    3. Click Object Settings, select Course Offering Schedules, and then click Edit.
    4. For Field Permissions, select Read Access for Is Monday, Is Tuesday, Is Wednesday, Is Thursday, Is Friday, Is Saturday, and Is Sunday.
    5. Save your changes.
  2. Modify the Student Information: Parse Recurrence Pattern flow to re-populate the day-of-week fields on existing course offering schedule records.
    1. From Setup, find and select Flows.
    2. Select Student Information: Parse Recurrence Pattern.
    3. Click Save As New Flow.
    4. Enter a label and API name.
    5. Click the Start element.
    6. In Set Entry Conditions, for Condition Requirements, select None.
      This change removes the formula in the original flow. Restore the formula after running the flow.
    7. Save and activate the flow.
  3. Update all existing course offering schedule records to trigger the flow and bulk update the day-of-week fields.
    Use Data Loader, an Apex script, or another method of your choice.
  4. Restore the entry conditions in the Start element after the bulk update completes.
    1. From Setup, find and select Flows.
    2. Select the version of the Student Information: Parse Recurrence Pattern flow that you modified.
    3. Click Deactivate.
    4. Click the Start element.
    5. In Set Entry Conditions, for Condition Requirements, select Formula Evaluates to True, and then enter the formula from the original flow.
    6. Save and activate the flow.