Setting up data fields within ARI Recruiting is an integral piece to your ARI success. When you first enter the ARI Recruiting platform, you will be presented with preexisting standard data fields within athlete profiles, however, we want to make it easy for you to not only hide any standard fields that you would like but to create custom data fields that will help fit all of your needs.

Data fields play an important role beyond athlete profiles. By setting up your data fields, you'll be able to take full advantage of ARI Recruiting through mass imports, recruit questionnaires, filters and auto groups.

ARI Recruiting offers two entry points to the Custom Fields settings page.

Option 1 is through your settings page.

To access custom fields through the settings page, click on the settings gear in the menu bar on the left side of the ARI Recruiting platform and then select 'Custom Fields'.

Option 2 is through an athlete profile.

To access custom fields through an athlete profile, you must first go into an athlete profile. Once inside a profile, you will select the edit fields button in the top right of the ARI Recruiting platform and select 'Bio' if you wish to edit the bio fields or 'Sport Stats' if you wish to edit the stats page data fields.

From the new menu on the right side of the ARI Recruiting platform, you'll be able to check (show) and uncheck (hide) preexisting data fields. Unchecked data fields will not appear in the athlete profile, nor will they be usable in the recruit grid or on your recruit questionnaire. Checking or unchecking the box to the left of a data group name will either show or hide the data group as a whole.

From this menu, you can edit data groups or create your own data groups or checklists.

To edit a data group, select the pencil icon to the right of the data group's name.

As your menu changes, you'll now see the preexisting fields in your data group. Scrolling to the bottom of the menu will allow you to add new data fields.

You are able to create custom data groups by scrolling to the bottom of the 'edit fields' menu and selecting 'Add New Group.' You are also able to add custom checklists by selecting, 'Add New Checklist'.

Adding a new group allows you to create a custom grouping of data fields that fit your needs.

Adding a new checklist allows you to create custom checklists. An example of a useful checklist is tracking if a committed recruit has completed required items (application, transcript, FAFSA, etc.).
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For 'Bio' and 'Sport Stats'

Number: Numerical data

Text Field: Single line of text

Text Box: Multiple lines of text

Date: MM/DD/YYYY (must include year)

Check Box: An individual check box

Dropdown: Single value selection, based on values you create

Multiple Choice: Multi-value selection, based on values you create

URL: Text field created to hold a website URL

In 'Sport Stats' only

Events: Activates 'Add New Tournament' button, which creates a text field for 'tournament name' and adds a date field for the date of the tournament/event to be input

Time Result: Data field for times, formatted as MM:SS.mm (must include all numerical values and punctuation)

Time Date: Activates two new data fields, with a time field (MM:SS.mm) and a date field (MM/DD/YYYY)

Result Date: Activates two new data fields, with a text field and a date field (MM/DD/YYYY)