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.

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)

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

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

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

Common examples are included below.

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

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