Add Person Tool Rights

The Add Person tool allows the creation of new persons - staff members, students, parents/guardians, etc. - in Infinite Campus. Full access to this tool requires Read, Write, and Add tool rights; Delete rights are not applicable for this tool. 

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Screenshot of the Add Person tool and an image of the assigned Add Person tool rights. Add Person Tool and Full Access Tool Rights


Best Practices for Add Person Tool Rights:

The Add Person tool is used to add new person records to your Campus database. It is recommended that FULL rights to the Add Person tool be assigned to staff responsible for adding individuals - students, parents/guardians, staff, non-guardians, etc. 

Full access to Add Person requires Read, Write, and Add. 

Read Rights

With Read rights to Add Person, a user can:

  • Select the Add Person tool from the Index. 
  • Enter search criteria to view existing person records. 
  • Generate a Person Summary Report from the search results. 
  • Select a person from the search results.
  • Click Create New Person and enter data for the new person, but cannot save the new person record.

Write Rights

With Write rights to Add Person, a user can do all of the actions allowed with Read rights, plus:

  • Enter data into the New Person form (the fields Last Name, First Name, and Gender are required) to create a new person. However, that record does not save. 

Add Rights

With Add rights to Add Person, a user can do all of the actions allowed with Read rights and Write rights, plus:

  • Save the new person record. 
  • Choose Add Another Person button to create an additional person record. 
Add Another Person 

Other Tools Needed

Additional access to one of the following tools is needed to create and save a new person record, as follows: 

  • Demographics (core.Person) - Read, Write, Add
  • Add Person (core.addPerson) - Read, Write, Add
  • Food Service Account Information (pos.AccountInfo) - Read, Write, Add, Delete
  • Student Locator (student.studentLocator) - Read, Write, Add
  • Staff Locator (census.addStaff) - Read, Write