Custom naming convention requests - Google

Sometimes the default naming conventions that Edusync provides in the Edusync Google settings page may not meet the needs of your school. Should that be the case, you can request that Edusync adds a custom naming convention for your instance of the Edusync Google tool.

The fields we can include from your school's MIS are shown below. 

Please note: We can include any number of letters from each name and can splice admission years and numbers etc.

Unless otherwise requested, the year of admission will be the cohort's year of admission rather than the actual year of admission for the student, i.e. the year that they would have joined reception.

For further help, please raise a support ticket by emailing [e-mail].

Please make sure you include in the ticket:

• The school name
• A unique identifier for the school e.g. postcode, URN etc
• A description of the naming convention
• An example of what a user's email address would look like with the naming convention applied

We will confirm once we have added the new naming convention and ask that you check that it is working as expected with a single unmatched user. 

To check that the new naming convention is working as expected: 

1. Go to gsync.wonde.com/directory 
2. Find an unmatched user
3. Select them using the tick box next to their name
4. Then click 'Action selected' in the top right-hand corner
5. Click 'Create Google user' and make sure the new naming convention has created the user and matched them appropriately

If you are happy with the outcome, please proceed to provision all users by running a manual sync or if you have automatic sync turned on, you can wait for this to run. 

If you are setting up a secondary, middle, or junior school, you will need a custom naming convention if you want to include the cohort year. We will need to add some years to the cohort year in these cases, so you will need to raise a ticket to create a custom naming convention.