In Martial Class™ training members, staff, and prospects are all managed as Students.
To add a new student to the system, you can use the New Student... and New Student in this Family... menu option from most windows that display students.
This option will bring up the Student Details Window for the new student, allowing you to enter the student details.
In this window, only the Given Name, Surname and Family fields are mandatory.
The Family field is a special field, it is used to group together students into "Families", as the family may contain people with different surnames.
The Family field is handled a little differently to other fields in the system. To create a new family, use the New/Edit button next to the Family field (this button either says New or Edit, depending on the value in the Family field). This will display the Family Name edit dialog:
or, as a shortcut, you can type in the family name you wish to create and then TAB out of the field (or click a different field), then confirm the creation of that family:
You can have more than one family with the same family name. So when you choose the family name on the student details window. You need to check that the correct family is selected by looking at the All members in this Family
This won't work if that family name has already been used once, in that case you need to blank the family field and use the New button.
For many other fields you can hover your mouse pointer over them to see a popup tooltip explaining how the field is used.
Learning Lists
Some fields such as Type, Occupation, and Nationality, use a special combo that we call a "Learning List". These learning lists have no values initially, but as you enter students into the system, they collate the values you use and present them in the combo. This field also autocompletes as you type in the field. So chances are that if you have entered a value once in one of these fields, then you will only have to type the first few letters to retrieve that value the next time you are editing that field for any student.
Postal codes are a special enhanced version of learning lists. In Martial Class™, as you enter address information, the system remembers postal codes specific to given regions in a country and will autofill the postal code field when you enter the region information.
Grades
Anyone you add to the system starts off with no grade in any style. You need to go to the Grades tab and add a grade to them for any Style they are studying. You can add a "Today" grade using the today button and set the grade to Beginner, White Belt, Novice, etc (whatever your first grade is).
Martial Class™ has a lot more capability on these tabs to allow you to track just about anything about the person. If you use the F1 key on any of the tabs on this window, the online help system will display information specific to that tab.
