====== Annual School Census PDF Console Application ======

While support for generating new annual PDF surveys for a new school year is supported in the Pacific EMIS web user interface (UI), this console application is more powerful and flexible.

===== Installation =====

First you will need the latest version of the application and put it somewhere on your PC (e.g. ''C:\Users\Your User\Pacific EMIS\Pacific EMIS PDF Survey Builder'')

===== Usage =====

Open in a command prompt, go into the directory where you installed the application. Then execute like this to print the help page.

<code>
> cd C:\Users\Your User\Pacific EMIS\Pacific EMIS PDF Survey Builder
> surveybuilder.exe --help
</code>

This will print out documentation on how to use the console application

===== Examples =====

Common examples are included below.

==== Generating new school survey ====

<code>
surveybuilder.exe --form KEMIS_SEC --url https://kemis-test.pacific-emis.org/ --output "H:\My Drive\Development\Pacific EMIS\temporary-testing-files" --year 2025 --toolbox " " --populate KPS057
</code>

===== Extend with Batch Script =====

It can also be easily extended with batch or PowerShell scripts.