01 March 2024

What are application queries?

Application queries enables you to search for applications across all desks, whereas the applications list shows applications at a specific desk only.

You can build complex search criteria to find applications using criteria, sub-criteria, and related criteria. On finding the applications of interest, you can then select the applications and choose actions to perform, such as making decisions or sending to enrolment.

Actions

Use application queries to find applications. You can then select one or more applications to perform the following actions:

Communicate with applicants
Communicate with applicants to send emails with the following notifications: 
  • Programme cancellation notification

  • Programme change notification

  • Shortlisted notification

Review applications
Review one or more applications to view details of the application, such as statements and references, education and experience, clearance checks, and so on.
Move to desk
Move up to 100 applications to a folder at another desk. For example, to move a selection of applications to a desk for an alternative campus.

The applications are moved to a folder with the same name. However, if the desk does not have a folder with the same name, applications are moved to the desk’s default folder for new applications.

Move to folder
Move up to 100 applications to a folder at the same desk. For example, to move a selection of applications whose applicants must be interviewed to an Interview required folder.
Make decisions
Make decisions on up to 50 applications. For example, to make unconditional offers.
The action changes to View decisions if you do not have permissions to edit the selected applications at a desk.
Assign responsible person
Assign a responsible person on up to 100 applications.
Send to enrolment
Send up to 100 applications to enrolment to set the completion state to Sent to enrolment. Workflows can move applications, such as to a Ready for enrolment folder, when the completion state is set.
Close applications
Close up to 100 applications to set the completion state to Closed. Workflows can move applications, such as to an Archive folder, when the completion state is set.
Attention.You must have the required permissions to perform actions on applications. For more information, go to What is authorisation?

Search criteria

You can build complex search criteria to find applications using criteria, sub-criteria, and related criteria as detailed below.

Attention. For performance reasons, the search results are limited to 500 applications. If more than 500 applications meet the search criteria, a message alerts you to the number of matching applications. For example, Your search retrieved the first 500 of 644 matching applications.

Criteria and sub-criteria

The search criteria consist of application data, desks or folders, person data, personal characteristics, and research data. Search criteria can be connected using the AND and OR operators. Search criteria can have sub-criteria that further filters the applications. Sub-criteria are also connected using the AND and OR operators.

For example, the diagram Criteria and sub-criteria details the search criteria to find applications with the following criteria:

  • Admissions programme is one of Nurse (Reg. Nurse Mental Health Nursing) or Nurse (Registered Nurse Childrens nursing) with the sub-criteria that the academic years is one of 2021/2 or 2022/3.

  • Desk is one of PGT Nursing and the folder is one of Ready for Review.

Criteria and sub-criteria
Diagram illustrating criteria and sub-criteria connected by AND or OR operators.

Related criteria

Related criteria filters on information associated to applications such as clearance checks and qualifications. Related criteria can only be connected to groups using the AND operator.

Criteria with related criteria
Diagram illustrating related criteria connected to groups using the AND operator

The video Application queries demonstration shows how to search for applications and then select applications for processing.

Application queries demonstration