Please do something to allow Forms and Houses in School Manager to be archived when no longer in live use, without removing them from historic data!
Currently, there are only two options, live, or deleted. We are changing several of our Boarding House names this year, and adding the new names make the list very cumbersome. I can currently only delete the ones no longer in use, as there is no way of marking them as no longer live. However, this removes all historic data! The workaround I have been given is to create custom free text fields eg 'Boarding House on Leaving' and input the data there so it is still captured and then I can delete the boarding house names that are no longer in use.
However, future data analysis then also becomes very cumbersome as someone then has to know that archived Boarding House data is captured in a separate custom field and not the Boarding House field. From a workflow perspective it just seems ridiculous and clunky, when it should be relatively straightforward to be able to mark a field as not currently live, without deleting it completely.
See also https://ideas.isams.com/ideas/MIS-I-3795