Overview
This article explains the “Public name for Timetable Categories filter” setting. It lets an administrator customize the text label shown for the Timetable Category filter that appears in Subject lists across the Teacher and Student portals. This setting only changes how the filter is labeled on screen – it does not change which Subjects are shown or hidden, and it does not work on its own.
What This Setting Does
Setting: “Public name for Timetable Categories filter”/Public_Name_Subject_Filterring_Based_On_Timetable_Categories (
When Subject filtering by Timetable Category is active (see the related setting in the Notes section), Teachers and Students are shown a filter that lets them choose which academic period’s Subjects to view. By default, this filter is labeled with the system’s default term, “Timetable Category.” This setting lets the institution replace that default label with a word or phrase that better matches its own terminology – for example “Semester,” “Term,” “Trimester,” or “Cycle.”
This is a free-text field: the administrator types in whatever label they want end users to see. Leaving the field blank keeps the system default label, “Timetable Category.”
Main Settings / General Settings / Basic Customization / Controls, Filters & Checks / Public name for timetable categories filter
Here you can give your own public name for timetable categories filter. (Figure 1 & 2)
— Example in Teacherβs portal —
Setting -> Active -> My Filter
Figure 1
Setting -> Inactive
Figure 2
Where It Is Used
The custom label set here is shown wherever the Timetable Category filter appears for Teachers and Students, for example:
The My Subjects area of the Teacher portal, where the filter lets a Teacher choose which academic period’s Subjects to display.
The small markers shown next to each Subject that indicate which Timetable Category or Categories it belongs to.
Any other Subject list in the portal that is filtered by academic period once the underlying filtering setting is turned on.
If Subject filtering by Timetable Category is turned off, the filter itself is not shown anywhere, so the custom label configured here has no visible effect until that setting is enabled.
Business Logic / Behavior
This setting only affects the text label shown for the filter. It never changes the filtering rules, which Subjects are shown or hidden, or how Timetable Categories are set up.
The custom text set here only becomes visible once “Enable Subject filtering based on timetable categories” is turned on. That setting is what actually turns the filter itself on or off; this setting simply renames it.
If this field is left empty, Classter falls back to its default term, “Timetable Category.”
Administrators can enter any label that matches their institution’s own academic-period wording; there is no fixed list to choose from.
Example
Gamma Academy organizes its school year into two Timetable Categories, set up in the system as “Category 1” and “Category 2.” Staff and students at Gamma Academy are used to calling these periods “Terms,” so the administrator sets this setting’s value to “Term.”
After saving, the filter that used to read “Timetable Category” in the My Subjects screen for Teacher Maria P. now reads “Term” instead, with the same academic periods available to choose from and the same filtering behavior as before. Student George S. sees the corresponding label update wherever the filter or its markers appear. No Subjects, enrollments, or schedules change – only the wording of the filter label changes.
When to use
When to Enable
“Enable Subject filtering based on timetable categories” is already turned on, and you want the filter’s on-screen name to match the terminology your Teachers and Students already use (for example “Semester,” “Term,” “Trimester,” or “Cycle”) instead of the generic default, “Timetable Category.”
You want the wording used for this filter to stay consistent with the terminology used elsewhere in your institution’s setup.
When to Disable
The default label, “Timetable Category,” already matches how your institution refers to its academic periods, so no customization is needed – simply leave the field blank.
Subject filtering by Timetable Category is not enabled at your institution. In this case the field has no visible effect regardless of what is entered.
Notes
This setting behaves identically in K-12 mode and in Higher Education mode. Enabling “Enable Configuration for Higher Education”/Xrisi_parametropoihshs_kolegiou (
Prerequisites – before this setting has any visible effect, make sure that:
“Enable Subject filtering based on timetable categories”/Enable_Subject_Filterring_Based_On_Timetable_Categories (
At least one Timetable Category has been created and marked active on the Timetable Categories management screen.
Subjects have been linked to their relevant Timetable Category or Categories from the Subject setup screen’s Timetable tab.
Related setting:
“Enable Subject filtering based on timetable categories”/Enable_Subject_Filterring_Based_On_Timetable_Categories
