# Create an application panel (/applications/application-panel)



















An application panel is a message members press to apply for something, like a staff role. Tickety asks them your questions, then posts their answers in a channel your review team watches, with **Accept** and **Deny** buttons on it.

Before you start, make sure your server has an admin role in **Settings**: Tickety refuses every application until one is set. See step 1 of [Create a ticket panel and post it](/tickets/ticket-panel).

<Steps>
  <Step>
    ### Start a new panel [#start-a-new-panel]

    Open your [dashboard](https://tickety.top/dashboard) and pick your server. In the sidebar, under **Applications**, click **Application Panels**, then press **Create New Panel**.

    On your first panel a short setup wizard opens instead of the editor. Press **Advanced Settings** at the top right to leave it and follow this guide.

        <img alt="Create New Panel on the Application Panels page" src="__img0" />
  </Step>

  <Step>
    ### Set up the panel [#set-up-the-panel]

    You are on the **General** tab, under **Panel Settings**.

        <img alt="Panel Name, Review Role and Application Channel in Panel Settings" src="__img1" />

    1. Type a name in **Panel Name**, like Staff Application. Up to 80 characters.
    2. Open **Review Role** and pick the role that reviews these applications. Members with it can accept and deny them, even without any other permission. Your admin role can too.
    3. Open **Application Channel** and pick a private staff channel. Every finished application is posted there for review. This is not the channel the panel goes in.

    A finished application arrives in that channel like this, with buttons to accept or deny it:

        <img alt="An application waiting for review in the staff channel" src="__img2" />
  </Step>

  <Step>
    ### Add the first question [#add-the-first-question]

    Click the **Questions** tab and press **Add a Question**, then pick how applicants answer:

    * **Text Answer**: they type. **Character Limits** sets the shortest and longest answer, from 0 to 1000.
    * **Multiple Choice**: they pick from the choices you type under **Choices**, up to 25. **Minimum Choices** and **Maximum Choices** set how many they must pick.
    * **Image Upload** 👑: they send a picture.

        <img alt="The picker that opens from Add a Question" src="__img3" />
  </Step>

  <Step>
    ### Write the question [#write-the-question]

    Type the question in **Question**, up to 100 characters. Use **Description** for a hint under it.

    **Required** is on to start with, so applicants cannot skip it.
  </Step>

  <Step>
    ### Add more questions [#add-more-questions]

    Press **Add a Question** for each extra question. The numbers on the button show how many you have and how many you can add. Drag a question to reorder it. A question keeps the kind you picked, so to change it, delete it and add a new one.
  </Step>

  <Step>
    ### Publish [#publish]

        <img alt="The channel picker and Publish at the top of the page" src="__img4" />

    1. Open &#x2A;*Channel to post panel in...** and pick the public channel where members should see the panel.
    2. Press **Publish**. Tickety saves the panel, posts it in that channel, and takes you back to **Application Panels**. **Create**, next to it, saves the panel without posting it.
  </Step>
</Steps>

In Discord, the posted panel looks like this:

<img alt="The posted application panel in Discord" src="__img5" />

Press the button on the posted panel yourself to test it. By default the questions come to you in a DM, a private message from Tickety. It starts like this, and each question follows as its own message:

<img alt="The DM that starts an application" src="__img6" />

<img alt="A question in the application DM" src="__img7" />

To let members answer on the website instead, see [Change how members fill out an application](/applications/application-apply-method).

## It did not work? [#it-did-not-work]

<Accordions>
  <Accordion title="Publish says to enter a name, pick a channel, or create a question">
    "Please enter a panel name", "Please select a channel for sending the application logs" or "Please create at least one question". Fill in the one it names. The second one means **Application Channel** is empty.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Question N needs at least one choice">
    A **Multiple Choice** question has no choices. Type at least one under **Choices**.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="You have reached the maximum limit of application panels">
    The server has as many application panels as it can hold. Delete one you no longer use.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Members see Admin Role Not Set">
    No admin role is saved. Pick an **Administrator Role** in **Settings**.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Members see DM Failed">
    Tickety could not send them a DM, usually because their DMs from server members are closed. The message has a button explaining how to open them. Or let them apply on the website: see [Change how members fill out an application](/applications/application-apply-method).
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Finished applications never show up in the channel">
    Tickety posts them through a webhook and needs the Manage Webhooks permission in your server. Also check **Application Channel** is set.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Members with the wrong role see a message about creating a ticket">
    The role check for applications currently uses the ticket wording. It still means they are missing a required role, or have a blocked one, for this panel.
  </Accordion>
</Accordions>

<Callout type="info" emoji="👑">
  Features marked with a crown (👑) need a [Premium Subscription](https://tickety.top/premium).
</Callout>