Maintain Reasons for Foster

This article describes how to add, edit and hide reasons animals may be put into foster.

Users will require access to the Administration menu to perform these functions.

To Add a New Foster Reason

1. From the Welcome / Search Page, click the Administration link in the orange left hand menu.
2. Find and click on the option Edit Drop Down Menus
3. In the top half of the resulting menu, find the option Foster Reasons and click the Edit link on the left of it.
• Tip: use Ctrl + F to search the keywords on the page if you are having trouble finding them. 
4. Place your cursor in the free text field and type the name of your new foster reason.
5. Ensure there is a tick in the box to the right of the text box (this is ticked by default, do not untick it) This ensures the option is shown in the current list.
6. Press the Enter key on your keyboard. 
7. Your new foster reason is now added to the list.

To Edit a Foster Reason

1. From the Welcome / Search Page, click the Administration link in the orange left hand menu.
2. Find and click on the option Edit Drop Down Menus
3. In the top half of the resulting menu, find the option Foster Reasons and click the Edit link on the left of it.
• Tip: use Ctrl + F to search the keywords on the page if you are having trouble finding them. 
4. On the list of existing Foster Reasons, hover your cursor over the item you wish to edit so a little icon shaped like a pencil appears on the left. 
5. Click on the pencil and the option will appear in a text box, ready for editing.
6. Make whatever changes you need.
7. On the right hand side a small green tick icon and a red cross icon will display.
• To save your changes, click on the green tick
• To discard your changes, click on the red cross
8. The page will update and save or discard your changes as you selected. Any changes will now be visible when processing animals out to foster.
9. NOTE: if you edit an existing Foster Reason, this will change any records it has been assigned to retroactively. 

To Hide a Foster Reason

1. From the Welcome / Search Page, click the Administration link in the orange left hand menu.
2. Find and click on the option Edit Drop Down Menus
3. In the top half of the resulting menu, find the option Foster Reasons and click the Edit link on the left of it.
• Tip: use Ctrl + F to search the keywords on the page if you are having trouble finding them. 
4. On the list of existing Foster Reasons, hover your cursor over the item you wish to edit so a little icon shaped like a pencil appears on the left. 
5. Click on the pencil and the option will appear in a text box, ready for editing.
6. Untick the check box on the right, in the column marked Show
7. Click the green tick icon on the right hand side to save the change.
8. The option will now be hidden and cannot be assigned to future foster processes unless re-enabled.
9. To re-enable a hidden option, follow the same process as above to re-tick the Show box and save.
10. Note: reasons for foster can't be deleted, only hidden or edited. This ensures historical stability for you site.