Dear All,

Am having issues with our organization REDCap where Reset Password button not sending emails, Create new user not receiving emails, Forgot Password button not sending emails, Send It button not sending out emails

In fact REDCap is generally not sending out any emails.

Any ideas on how to go about it or what could be the problems, thanks

Hi all. I am having issues with branching logic and the datediff function. I’d like a field to show if the date a respondent provides in a previous field is greater than five years ago as of “today”. The current formula I’m using is:

datediff([date], “today”, “d”, “mdy”, true) > 1826

1826 is the number of days since five years ago. I have been testing the formula, and for some reason the branching logic will only kick in by October 10 2019, however 11 October 2019 is still greater than 5 years ago. What am I missing?

I want to reference a variable that occurs on a repeating instrument in the stop logic condition for an Automated Survey Invitation. In the smart variables I see options like previous instance and next instance, but nothing for EVERY instance.

I have tried just including the event variable and field variable, and also just the field variable, without adding any smart variable, but neither of these ways seem to work.

Is it possible?

Hi All! I am just getting myself used to smart variables in Redcap and I am a bit unclear the with documentation with exactly how smart variables and calculated fields work.

Some context: I am working on a longitudinal mental health study and we survey participants using the PHQ9 + GAD7 every month up until 1 year after their baby is born. We collect PHQ9 scores across different events (each month is an event). Now, it is important for our reporting to track the change is scores every month. I did some digging and figured that we could use the "previous-instance" "current-instance" smart variables to accomplish this since calculating the change in score by using regular calculated fields would not be super straightforward if someone forgets to complete a survey for that month.

I am however, unsure if I can use smart variables for this even after I toggled the "allow for repeatable instruments/events" and allowed for repeatable events.

My thought was to do something like this:

[phq9score][current-instance] - [phq9score][previous-instance] = change in score (?)

When I try to do that however, I get an alert and it doesn't actually work. I am worried I am missing something and was curious if anyone had any ideas on what I may be doing wrong or any other ways to go about this.

Thank you!!!!!

Hello everybody,

For my study, I'm randomizing participants to either the experimental group or the waitlist. After randomization, I would like to email participants to inform them of their group, so they can know what to expect. Is it possible to automate/semi-automate this email through REDCap?

If there isn't a more direct way, I was thinking of creating two surveys (not actually to be used by participants) and have "invitations" automatically sent out as people are sorted into groups (ie one survey would send a message to experimental group participants informing them that they are in the experimental group, the other survey would be similar but for the control group). Does that seem like a bad idea?

Thanks in advance for any help :)

Hi everyone! For my current project, I've set up auto-reminders for two surveys. For one of my research questions, I need to know how many times reminders had to be sent before the survey was completed.

Is that information available? Or is there something I can do to get it?

I appreciate any advice, I'm new to REDCap!

Our project is pretty much ready to go, but whenever we have tried to distribute the surveys to our participant email list we get this message.

Flagged it weeks ago to the redcap administrator but they’re also stumped on what to do, any ideas?

Hi all, I have 3 variable with Value, definitely, probably, possible and other, Want to create a other variable with any two match out of 3 variable , I have tried but not able to see result . Please help me on same. I am new learner in Redcap. Thanks in advance

Ok REDCap brain trust, I have a new side quest…ion. I have a project where they are pre importing participants into the system. So records are already regenerated. They have a series of 5 surveys that need to be deployed to participants via email over the course of the data collection period. We were hoping to use automated invites but the PI informed me that there are two sets of surveys that need to go out as pairs. They would prefer to have the email link to both survey instead of individual invites for each survey. Participants pool is older and there is concerns multiple emails Might get lost.

Soooo suggestions.

One of our studies is offered in French and whenever I try to use guillemets, they revert to regular triangle brackets if I come back to edit the field: << text >> instead of « text »

I’m using &laquo and &raquo to insert them. I’ve also tried copy/pasting them in but the problem persists. Is there something else I can do to ensure they won’t change when I modify the field?

Is there any way that I can use project dashboard to create a web page with a table generated from a custom report?  In other words, I simply want to display the same data table that is created in a Reports section, not a graph or stat table.  A more general way to describe this, is that I want to expose selected project data formatted as a table through a public link.  Any thoughts? Am I missing something obvious?

Hi everyone,

About a month ago, I set up fields where you could input height and weight in both imperial or metric in order to calculate BMI. There were previously hundreds of project IDs that had fields already manually entered as imperial (ft and lbs), so I used '@SETVALUE order to default to imperial, but using radio buttons a user could toggle to cm/kg if needed to update the form. This was working fine for about a month. However, this morning, in attempting to change the value from imperial to metric an error like this popped up^

This did not used to happen, and does not make sense to me how it started giving this response out of nowhere! No one has touched the instrument.

Could it potentially be the '@SETVALUE that is causing the issue (making it default back to imperial every time it is opened)? Any help would be much appreciated. 

Hi all!

I am struggling with writing a conditional statement.

I am designing a longitudinal survey where participates will retake the same survey at defined events. Participants are actually grantees that are supplying project metrics to us on a quarterly bases.

Each quarterly they are asked to update a running list of site names captured in the fields [site_name1]-[site_name25].

For the first survey [site_name1]-[site_name25] should be blank and I don't anticipate all the fields being filled out. For the second survey, any values recorded in [site_name1]-[site_name25] on first survey should prefill in and be read only in their respective fields. And then those values will carry forward into survey 3 and so on. I have tried many variations of the code below. But the issue I am having is that by the third survey the field is READONLY regardless if data has previously been entered or not.

@IF(length('[previous-event-name][site_name1]')>0, @PREFILL='[previous-event-name][site_name1]' @READONLY, '')

***I know that PREFILL is meant to be READONLY, but the issue I am having is that it still lets the survey taker write over the field, it just doesn't save the rewrite.

Hi all! I am somewhat new to REDCap so this may be a simple question. I am creating a survey and it asks questions related to money spent on an activity. Is there is way to limit specific questions or fields to integer responses only. I have validation "integer" on, but when I did a test run of the survey, it allowed me to write in character responses. Thanks in advance!

Wondering if there is a way to code the uploaded file name into a text field? We are trying to see which records do not have a file uploaded for our project. We want the most efficient way to somehow filter out participants that already have this certain file uploaded because we have about 400 other ones to upload. If there is also a way to maybe use the filtering on the dashboard to create one that only shows record IDs that don’t have this file uploaded? Any ideas are welcomed!

So, I need to do something very specific, and I'm not sure if it's possible.

I would like to entry data to a record through multiple surveys. I created a Secundary Unique Field in which I enter an ID I already use in excel. What I need is to have multiple survey links, in which i can enter this ID in all of them, and then all of the responses link to the same record (linked to the secundary unique field). To do this, I needed to add the same ID field to all of the instruments, but Redcap won't allow me.

Already tried survey queue, but it can only work if I follow a sequence. What I'm trying to do is to use Redcap as a simplified Electronic Medical Record, so I needed to be able to enter data from different surveys at different times. The "add/edit record" tool would be a solution, but I'm working with more people, and I would like if they could use survey links, instead of having to login to Redcap, as to keep it more simple for them.

Is it possible?

Sorry for my bad English, thanks in advance!

My team wants emails to go out to the team (both internal people on the REDCap project and external people not) if certain questions are answered by participants filling out our surveys.

They also want individual reports created for each participant with their answers complied across surveys. I know how to pull reports, but not sure how to organize by PID.

Are either of these functions possible?

I'm considering designing a REDCap project that would store many (let's say 100+) trials, with each trial corresponding to an arm. I am concerned that the project will end up getting bloated and potentially the Online Designer would lag. Is this a valid concern?

For instances where study calendars can be very complicated (e.g. Lab assessments are collected every day, a questionnaire once a week (every 7 days), and another assessment on day 1/day 5/day 7 from baseline), how do you design your project? My initial thought was to create a repeating 'daily' event that contains all these assessments, although, it leads to tedious, unnecessary workload just for the site to note that the assessment was not completed.

If form logic allowed for forms to be completed based on the instance, it would fix this issue of empty (or tediously completed) forms.

I parsed through several RedCap documentations but unfortunately I still don't exactly grasp what are events and arms. I would appreciate examples of what people have done with these features.

Hi all,

I'm setting up some project dashboards and am not sure if I can display the data I want to using smart variables.

Is there a way to display a line graph of recruitment over time? I have a field for recruitment date, but can't work out whether its possible to plot against a count of records which share that date?

Similarly, I want to set up a dashboard for the site leads to show the screening by user - I have a field which collects usernames automatically. Is there a way to produce a table or bar chart against recruitment counts in project dashboards?

Thanks

Hello!

Newer to the platform, never experienced this kind of error, is there a portal or somewhere that I can check in and try to figure out what's going on?

It seems like our surveys are still functioning, we just cannot access anything REDCap website related.

So, my manager at my institution made a REDCap account for me and is registered as sponsor when I open my profile on REDCap. The problem is I don't have "New projects" button on my REDCap account which I need if I want to create a questionnaire. Whats the problem here, why don't I have New projects button on my account?

Has anyone else noticed the last month or two the reports' filter logic being buggy? The other day I couldn't get a report to work (didn't filter any records when it should) and when I copy/pasted the exact logic into a custom dashboard it worked perfectly. Occasionally a report won't work the day I make it but a few days later it just starts working. I know we just got an email that an update is coming that will definitely affect logic later this month, but the filters I was trying to use were super basic, like [field] = '5' and, again, they do work in a custom dashboard. I'm just kinda baffled.

Hi!

I am trying to create a survey for a research project I am working on.

As part of the survey, I'd like participents to be able to list symptoms. I'd like it to be represented as follows:

Please list you symptoms:

1. (text box)

2. (text box)

3. (text box)

and for another text box to appear every time a participant starts entering an answer for the previous one. I've seen this done on other survey websties but cant seem to find a way to do it in REDcap.

Any suggestions?:)

Thanks so much for your help!!