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Initial Considerations

This tool feature is useful for projects who have participants that follow different workflows, as it allows you to grant access to instrument(s) at the record level when/if condition(s) are met. The logic is very similar to branching logic, except rather than applying logic at the field level, the logic is applied at a records instrument level.

• NOTE: Form Display logic impacts project user’s view of and accessibility of to instrument(s) within . This feature affects the Record Status Dashboard, Record Home Page, and Record Instrument List on the left-hand menu when in a participant record. .

• When the condition is not met, said instrumeinstrument(s) appear greyed-out .When a condition is NOT met for a given record, the instrument and cannot be accessed within the user interface by default: (click on the image(s) images below to expand)

Important notes:

• Form Display Logic does not impact data imports as this feature only operates in the data entry user interface to enable/disable the display of instruments.You may define as many conditions as you want. A form an instrument. It is possible to adjust the default display settings using the ‘optional settings’ found in the Form Display Logic interface:

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• An instrument may be selected in multiple conditions

  • Form display logic is not able to enforce that all conditions

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  • be met, instead the form will be enabled if at least one of the conditions is met.

  Form Display Logic is not utilized by the Survey Queue at all but can affect the behavior of the Survey Auto-Continue feature

Simple example:

Let’s say you wish for a specific instrument to be accesible to 1 user group, and a second unique instrument to be accesible to user group 2. In this example, the project has 3 instruments:

• 'Study Intro' where the participant is assigned to a group field (1 or 2)

  • ‘Treatment Survey’ should only be accessible to participants assigned to group 1

  • ‘Control Survey’ should only be accessible to participants assigned group 2

To accomplish this you would…

a) Select the form(s) for user group 1 > insert logic, (see condition 1 below)

b)Select the form(s) for user group 2 > insert logic specific for group 2, (see condition 2 below)

c) Save

Now when reviewing the Record Status Dashboard you’ll see…

• Records 1 & 2 which are assigned to group 1, have access to ‘Treatment Survey’, but do NOT have access to ‘Control Survey'

• Records 3 & 4 which are assigned to group 2, have access to ‘Control Survey’, but NOT ‘Treatment Survey'

• Record 5 has all forms available, as this record has not been assigned to a group, thus no conditions are able to be applied.

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Now, let’s take it a step further to cover a special use case of using ‘form display logic’ with ‘survey queue' functionality…

• If your Survey Queue is setup in a way which contradicts your Form display logic, Survey Queue functionality takes precedence over Form Display Logic.

  • Although record 13 indicates they are in group 1, the survey queue setup directs all user to complete boths surveys after completing the ‘study intro’ survey, thus when the first survey is sent to a participant, they will be provided both surveys for completion, even though the internal user interface has the control survey inaccessibile:

The Process (expand below)

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Additional Considerations

• If implementing ‘Form Display Logic’ in a Production project which has already collected data, be sure to review the ‘Optional Settings' and enable as needed for your projects specific needs.

  • Examples below :

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    • Keep forms enabled if they contain data: this selection ensures instruments which would normally be greyed out and restricted from display/access due to the condition not being met, are accessible to internal users if data has already been collected in said instrument: (notice the 3rd instrument is available to view)

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    • Hide forms that are disabled: If data has been collected and this setting is selected, then users cannot access the collected data from the user interface: (notice the 3rd instrument is greyed out:

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    • Enable support for Surve Auto-Continue: When a participant is taking surveys that are showcased as ‘hidden’ (inaccessible) in the user interface, if that instrument which is ‘hidden’ also has the ‘auto-continue’ feature enabled, that survey will be skipped over.

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      • (example) Auto-continue is enabled for the first 3 instruments, however because the additional support for auto-continue is enabled, when the participants takes their survey(s), they are not showcased nor provided the ‘treatment’ survey for completion.

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      • If this setting had not been enabled, the user would have been given the ability to complete all surveys, including treatment, even though they were assigned to the control group condition.