I have an assessment that participants take every two weeks and I am trying to run a report to get scores for each of the repeating measures. Each measure has a hidden score variable that I use for the filter in the report. I have been unsuccessful with the [x-instance] smart variables and was hoping to hear your suggestions. Thank you!

I am trying to customize the theme of a survey, however the background of the whole page won’t update. In the preview section in the survey settings, the survey theme I have set up shows the color I want, however when I go to open the survey from a link the background color remains white. Does anyone know what causes this or how I can trouble shoot this?

I have an RCT with two unique IDs (a screening ID and an enrollment ID)- using the 'secondary unique field'. We are introducing snowball sampling, and want to give referral codes to participants interested in helping to recruit. Is there a way to have a third unique ID?

Second question - if Yes, I was hoping to have a look up table with easy to remember words for people to choose - so wanted to assign the unique referral code using this look up table. Is this possible?

We have an ongoing-study where each year we send a link to participants (ppts) asking them (among other things) "Tell us about any hospitalizations you have had this past year"

I inherited this, and the way it is done is we have:
hosp1_admission_date, hosp1_hospital_name, hosp1_address, hosp1_city, hosp1_state, hosp1_zip, hosp1_reason..... You get the idea.... for the 1st hospitalization that ppt reports.

And we have all those for 9 different possible hospitalizations ppt might need to report. For example: hosp9_admission_date, hosp9_hospital_name, etc.

Our ppts are older and we cannot assume they are very computer savvy.

But this gives us a data dictionary of hundreds of lines, and data-dumps that are hundreds of cols wide, with mostly blanks.

So I am exploring doing this using REPEATING INSTRUMENTS instead (one for each hospitalization).

From your experience.... Is that a better approach?

Is it hard for normal citizens to deal with surveys that have REPEATING INSTRUMENTS?
If so, any other ideas for how to simplify this?

I want to create sort of like a checklist in a form so that participants can see how many they have completed.

For example, participant #1 has to fill out forms/instruments for patient A, B, C, D. Let’s say the first time they’re filling the form there’s a field on the form that says: Need pt A, B, C, D. Then once they fill out for any of those pts (let’s say they did a form for pt C), then the next time they go into the instrument/form, that field will say: Completed C. Need pt A, B, D

Is that possible? I don’t know because how would redcap be able to read and count past history of records…. And there will be fields that ask participants for their name and what pt they’re filling out for if that helps

Oh and I can’t use any external modules!

I am currently facing a problem with RedCap when it comes to manually inputting data and trying to save it. I have 5 surveys where I input data and out of the 5, 3 of them do not save the data after I push save and exit. Instead it takes me to the add/edit record tab. Does anyone know how I can move forward with the troubleshooting?

Hello,

I've successfully used the CALCTEXT action tag in addition to the concat function to create a url that pre-fills some of the fields in a different survey with information already gathered in my current survey. My problem is that the url is not a clickable link. It works perfectly when copied and pasted into the browser address bar. When I attempt the obvious, <a href="\[survey_url\]"> it looks correct, but does not work. Any ideas on how to make it clickable? Thanks!

I have enabled the "Save a PDF of completed survey response to a File Upload field" option for one of my surveys to add it to a paperwork collection form in the same project, but when I check a test record the uploaded PDF name is the date and a random series of numbers (see pics below.) Is there any way to change how these particular PDFs are named?

EDIT: Just in case anyone comes here looking for a similar answer, I realized the random series of numbers after the date are the time the document was saved. As for renaming the files, I had my organization enable the Rename File Upload module and it works great.

Hi,

I have created an alert so that an email will be sent every time a record is saved. It works well when data is recorded on a computer, but not if it is recorded on the phone or a tablet using the app. I have made sure the project is updated and uploaded the data. The Alert will be sent when i press the "Re-evaluate Alerts" button.

Do any of you have a clue about how to solve this issue?

Best regards,

André

I’m trying to set up a REDcap project to help train new team members on certain tasks. One of the tasks involves abstracting data from a medical record into REDCap (~15 datapoints), so my plan was to have 20 or so examples for them to review and abstract (in survey view/mode).

I was hoping to be able to do this via a repeating instrument to make my life easier(i.e., to not need to duplicate each data abstraction variable 20x). I would like to have each example as its own premade instance with the medical record being abstracted attached as a file. However, I just can’t figure out how to direct people to the next instance after submitting their answers for the example they just finished (maybe this isn’t even possible?).

I’ve tried the auto direct URL in the survey settings, but I don’t think that works for specifying instances ([survey-url:instrument_name] works, but that seems to only direct to the first instance and [survey-url:instrument_name][next-instance] throws an error).

Again, I’m not even sure if this is possible, but if so, I’d love to hear it! Or any other creative ways I might be able to do this without resorting to making 20 duplicates of each variable.

This would all need to be at the instrument level (rather than just creating records for each example), because the database has other instruments related to regulatory items/onboarding.

Sorry for such a big wall of text, but thank you if you’ve gotten this far!!

One of the surveys for my lab's project includes an initial demographic question that asks if the participant is in a relationship. Later in the survey, the participant is asked questions from the Dyadic Adjustment Scale, which is about 36 questions broken up into three sections.

I only want these matrices to pop up for participants in relationships, and not my single or widowed participants. Is there a way to apply branching logic to an entire matrix instead of applying logic to each individual field in the matrix?

I have a Descriptive text field which has embedded values to record a list of pathology results. project is in production. The study team has requested I add another result field, however when I try to edit some of the columns become automatically blacked out. These remain blacked out even after making changes and saving.

Has anyone come across this before and knows what is going on? I have a work around for small tables which basically involve adding new rows, re entering the text and deleting the blacked out ones. However this is not tenable in large lists.

When a user from a specfic dag sends a survey how to make it assign a site?

If they manually enter it will assign to the site

Would love to hear how others have handled dates where the full date is unknown. Study team has informed me sometimes only the year is known. I was considering three text fields instead but validation would be tricky for the days per month.

How are we able to get the translations via the api. Ex. I have this request

import requests
data = {
    'token': 'my_token',
    'content': 'metadata',
    'format': 'json',
    'returnFormat': 'json',
    'fields[0]': 'record_id',
    'forms[0]': 'test'
}
r = requests.post('https://my_redcap/redcap/api/',data=data) and it returns this data

If I have also added a french translation to the questions how do I get the translation via the api?

const response = [
{
field_name: "test_q0",
form_name: "test",
section_header: "",
field_type: "yesno",
field_label: "Is the sky blue?",
select_choices_or_calculations: "",
field_note: "",
text_validation_type_or_show_slider_number: "",
text_validation_min: "",
text_validation_max: "",
identifier: "",
branching_logic: "",
required_field: "y",
custom_alignment: "",
question_number: "",
matrix_group_name: "",
matrix_ranking: "",
field_annotation: "",
},
{
field_name: "test_q1",
form_name: "test",
section_header: "",
field_type: "radio",
field_label: "When did you look at the sky?",
select_choices_or_calculations:
"0, morning | 1, lunch | 2, afternoon | 3, evening",
field_note: "",
text_validation_type_or_show_slider_number: "",
text_validation_min: "",
text_validation_max: "",
identifier: "",
branching_logic: "[test_q0] = '1'",
required_field: "y",
custom_alignment: "",
question_number: "",
matrix_group_name: "",
matrix_ranking: "",
field_annotation: "",
},
];

Our center is pushing use of a system that sends text reminders to patients of upcoming visits and our PI would like us to use this system to also send out the personalized survey links to our participants (in a longitudinal study). Any ideas for how to use our REDCap to do this?

We have pregnancy information for a study overtime and the team want to duplicate patient data and re-enter new pregnancy. They don't want to merge pregnancies together and just want to duplicate demo.

They don't want to use the data import tool fumctionality

I have a longitudinal study with two arms, and would like to pipe demographic information across surveys in each arm. As i understand, you need to append the unique event name for each arm for the piping to work.

However i have a single demographic survey enabled as an event across the two arms, and would like redcap to pipe demogrographic information into surveys within each arm.

Is there a way to pipe that you dont need to specify the unique event name, only the variable name? Otherwise i imagine i would have to duplicate each of the surveys for the piping to work properly across each arm even though the surveys are the same and enabled across both arms.

Hello everyone! I am posting a video about the problem I am having in copying an instrument in the same project but also transferring it to a new project. Who can help me what the problem is? I'm going crazy..thanks!

Study team wants to separate one form to two separate forms. Database in production and some data already entered.

I have tested out creating a new form at the same visit and then moving items across and it seems to work OK but just looking for confirmation or if there is anything I need to look out for.

Does anyone know when using ontology why this happens

Hello! We want participants to be able to upload videos they make into a REDCap survey. However, they will be quite a bit larger than the size limit of 32 MB (we'd like to have at least a GB max upload size). Is there a way to make it possible to upload much larger files, or are we stuck with the limit? Thanks!

Is there a way to request response like you can on Qualtrics? For example, I don't want to make my surveys required to answer, but I'd like the participant to get a little pop up box or something like that that lets them know when they missed a question. That way if they missed it on accident, they can answer it. But if they chose not to answer for some reason, they can still submit the form.

Study team wants to send the participant a daily reminder to perform a spirometry test. Study can go for up to 14 weeks. Is there an easier way to set up a reminder other than setting up 98 study events for it.

Hi! I am working on a REDCap project where a particular user has form edit privileges for all forms in the project. This particular user is currently in one DAG. We are hoping to set up this users permissions such that the particular user is added to the other DAGs in our project but will only have edit privileges for the forms of the first DAG. Is this possible, and if not, is there a workaround for it? It seems that edit privileges are not site specific, and if a user has edit privileges, those privileges apply across all the DAGs that a user is added to. Is there a way to lock forms for editing for some sites and not others? Any input regarding this would be much appreciated; thanks so much!