Updates to Document Owners

Within the 24/25 ISIR, the required contributors for a FAFSA were updated to Student, Student Spouse, Parent, and Parent Spouse.  Due to this change the document owners within SFA were updated to reflect the new naming conventions to support the 24/25 award year.

  • Possible Document Owner Enums inAPI were updated to add the following values - Student Spouse, Parent, Parent Spouse. Below is the full list that of enums that will be supported.
    • Student
    • Mother
    • Father
    • Spouse
    • Parent1
    • Parent2
    • Student Spouse
    • Parent
    • Parent Spouse
  • Within the Admin and Self-Service when requesting documents or uploading unsolicited documents, the following values will be available in the dropdowns to select
    • If selecting a document with an award year of 23/24 or prior
      • Student
      • Spouse
      • Parent 1
      • Parent 2
    • If selecting a document with an award year of 24/25 of future or a lifetime document
      • Student
      • Student Spouse
      • Parent
      • Parent Spouse
  • The following mapping will occur to allow for existing document owners to map to new document owners to ensure that when any configuration script or system process that is trying to request or locate a document, it understands that they are the same.
    • Student
    • Spouse, Student Spouse
    • Mother, Parent1, Parent
    • Father, Parent2, Parent Spouse

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

Mapping will ensure that prior lifetime and award year documents will work with this change as well. For example, in your configuration if you are using "Parent1", it will map it to "Parent" and request a document for "Parent" if that lifetime document associated to Mother, Parent1, or Parent does not already exist. However, for new configuration we would recommend that you reflect the new naming conventions.

Key Resources