Understanding the Population Selection Group Box

A standard group box appears on run control pages for processes that use the Population Selection process to select the IDs to process. The Population Selection process may be required for some processes (for example, the Mass Assign Service Indicators process) but optional for others (for example, the 3C Engine process). The Population Selection Context Definition for a process controls whether the Population Selection process is available and if is required or optional.

If your institution defines a context definition that makes the Population Selection process available, the run control page for that process includes a standardized Population Selection group box. If the Population Selection process is available but optional, the run control page includes a check box that users can either select or clear to enable or disable the use of the Population Selection process. Depending on the page design, the check box, if it appears, might or might not be within the standard group box.

For the Mass Assign Service Indicators process, which is used in this section as an example of a process configured to use population selection, the group box appears at the top of the run control page. Because population selection is mandatory, the check box does not appear.

This section discusses the fields, links, and buttons that behave the same in the standard population selection group box wherever it appears on run control pages throughout PeopleSoft Campus Solutions. The values and parameters that you enter are specific to the application process. Consult the appropriate PeopleSoft documentation for information about using population selection for a specific application process.

This table lists the application processes that, as of the date of this publication, are configured to use the Population Selection utility.

Application Process	Reference
Audience Criteria	See Setting Up Audience Criteria.
Advisement Report	See Producing an Online Academic Advisement Transcript Report.
Application Delete by Batch	See Selecting a Group of Applications to Delete.
Prospect Delete by Batch	See Selecting a Group of Prospect Records to Delete.
3C Engine	See Running the 3C Engine Process.
Mass User Security Replacement	See Replacing User Security for Multiple Individuals.
Population Update	See Running the Population Update Process.
Process Student Groups	See Running the Student Group Process.
Service Indicator Person Mass Assign and Service Indicator Organization Mass Assign	See Mass Assigning Service Indicators.
Service Indicator Person Mass Release and Service Indicator Organization Mass Release	See Mass Releasing Service Indicators.
Aid Year Activate	See Activating an Aid Year for a Student.
Mass Packaging Select	See Performing Mass Packaging Using Application Data.
Select Students for Need Summary Validation	See Selecting Students for Need Summary Validation.
Select Students for Repackaging	See Selecting Students for Repackaging.
Process Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP)	See Running the SAP Batch Process.
SF External Award Feed	See Receiving Student Financials Payments as External Awards.
Mass Contract Select	See Processing Mass Contract Assignments.
Process Transcripts and Batch Transcript Request	See Processing Batch Transcripts (Application Engine).
Process User Edit Messages	See Assigning User Edit Messages in Batch.
Ability to Benefit	See Managing Ability to Benefit.
NSLDS Request	See Generating Financial Aid History or Transfer Student Monitoring Inform File Requests.
NSLDS Data Push	See Using the NSLDS Data Push Process.
Mass Select Transactions	See Understanding the Population Selection Group Box.
Mass Assign Student Waivers	See Assigning Waivers for Multiple Students.
Create Project Records	See Creating Student Academic Projects in Batch
Create and Maintain Evaluations	See Processing Evaluations in Batch
CR Workset Build	See Working with Worksets.