Save Application

When the user is creating or updating an application, he or she may want to pause and save the application for later modification or submission. The saved application is an in-process or draft application and AAWS places this draft application in a staging area. Subsequently, the user may submit this application or the system administrator may delete this application.

A typical self-service, online-application user interface might perform the following actions:

• Present a Save For Later hyperlink on any page in the page sequence. Generally, any page after the user starts creating the application may display this link. The user clicks this link to save the application.

• Prompt the user that the application is saved and the academic institution might use the applicant information for marketing purposes (if prospect creation is configured to occur on save).

• Formulate a request message.

• Submit the request message to the SAD_SAVEAPPL service operation.

• Receive and process the response from AAWS:

  • On a Success response there are various options:

    Present the user with a confirmation page. The confirmation page confirms that the application has been saved.

    Take the user back to the Get Application Summary page.

    Log out the user from the online application.

  • On an Error response:

    Based on the error codes that AAWS returns, position the user at an appropriate page of the user interface to allow data correction.

    Present validation error messages to the user.

    Present system error messages to the user.