Setting Up FE FAN View and Print Options

Important:

Financial Aid Notification (FAN) letter is a deprecated product. It is strongly recommended that you use Communication Generation (Comm Gen) instead. For more information on Comm Gen, see Campus Community Fundamentals: Using the Communication Generation Process

Students can view and print their Forms Engine (FE) financial aid notification letter (FANLTR) in self-service if you display the links on their Award Summary and Award Package pages.

Prerequisites

Before a student can print an FE FAN letter from Self Service, either GhostView or Adobe Distiller must be installed to format the PDF.

Pages Used to Set Up FE FAN View and Print Options

Page Name	Definition Name	Navigation	Usage
FE Award Notification Defaults	FANLTR_DEFAULTS	Financial Aid, and then Awards, and then Notification Letter, and then Award Notification Defaults	Ensure that the Display NID check box is not selected to avoid printing U.S. students' Social Security Numbers on their FAN letters. Select the Print Cancels and Print Declines check boxes to show links to canceled or declined awards.
Inquiry Options	SS_FA_INSTALL	Set Up SACR, and then Common Definitions, and then Self Service, and then Financial Aid, and then Self Service Options, and then Inquiry Options	Select the Award Notification check box in the Display Data group box to display the FE Award Notification PDF link on the students' Award Summary and Award Detail pages. Enter a name for the link to the FE Award Notification PDF process in the View Award Notification field in the Alternate Text group box.
FA Item Type 3	ITEM_TYPE_FA_3	Set Up SACR, and then Product Related, and then Financial Aid, and then Awards, and then Financial Aid Item Types, and then FA Item Type 3	Select Print from the Print Letter Option drop-down list box.