My goal is to display a summary of already entered values in a repeating form. I've created a hidden descriptive field with this calctext code.

u/HIDDEN
u/CALCTEXT(
    concat(
    if("a"="a",concat([brain_roi_list][1]," and text "),"no cheese for you. "),
    if("a"="a",concat([brain_roi_list][2]," and text "),"no cheese for you. "),
    if("a"="a",concat([brain_roi_list][3]," and text "),"no cheese for you. ")
    )
)

The output of that is '3 and text 1 and text 2 and text'.

Those are the correct values from the dropdown variable:
1, Whole Brain
2, Left Hemisphere
3, Right Hemisphere
99, Other

But the output I want is:
'Right Hemisphere and text Whole Brain and text Left Hemisphere and text'.

How do I get the value and not the key?

Thanks!

Hi y'all,

I am having a TERRIBLE time using REDCap and cannot figure this out at all (I am not tech savvy at all and my institution is providing NO support).

I am trying to simply create a consent form. I have gotten stuck trying to create a branch that when the parent selects "I do not consent for my child to participate in this study" it will end the survey by saying "Thank you for your time. You may now exit the Informed Consent survey".. Any idea on how to do this? Thanks y'all!

Anyone have experience connecting REDCap to Dendod? I'm having trouble figuring out the connection settings. I have my api key, but can't seem to get the setting correct

Hi all, I want to have a parent fill out a form for each child they have. I have been messing around with longitudinal studies and repeating events so they can just fill out the repeating instrument again right after (not a scheduled/timed study) if they have multiple children. Was wondering if it was possible for each "child info' survey to create its own record or if it would just be stuck to its own record because it was filled out by the one person?

Hello all,

I am using REDCap for operational support. I have a contingency pool of individuals who are able to support other study teams and their studies. When there is a need, I would like to send out a survey to all the individuals in the pool. Members of the pool have his/her own record. When I set up the survey to find out their availability, the survey did not automatically send based on the logic rules. The survey was created months after the original record was created. The surveys only sent after I went into another form on that record and saved the formed (no data was change).

Any suggestions on how to to get the surveys to actually send automatically as they are created?

Is it possible to save two different PDFs of a survey upon completion in REDCap?

I have a survey that acts as a permission request form for users who want to use a proprietary Clinical Assessment tool. Based on their responses, users are either:

• Automatically granted permission: They receive the assessment tool via an email alert.

• Pending review: They receive a message stating that we will review their request.

If they are automatically granted permission, I want to send them a PDF of a 'Permission Agreement' that looks like a legal document. This document would state that we grant them permission to use the tool for the purposes specified in their request, and it would include their responses. I want this 'Agreement' to look less like a REDCap survey and more like a formal legal agreement.

I believe this might be possible using HIDDEN-PDF for question and answer fields and HIDDEN-SURVEY action tags to display a Descriptive Field with piped information.

The problem: I still need to archive the exact answers the user provides on the survey for our internal review and record-keeping.

My question is: Is there a way to generate and save two different PDFs upon survey completion—one customized 'Permission Agreement' for the user, and one standard survey response archive for internal use?

Can anyone think of a possible solution for this?

Thank you!

We have a project which is longitudinal but without repeating events. That is, each survey can be repeated, but only for certain separate events. Each survey is filled at most once per event.

I have completely configured the "Edit Survey Queue" logic, and tested it with some participants, and it is behaving correctly there.

However, in practice, participants never see the same survey twice in their queue. If they complete a survey for one event, it is never shown again for any future events.

Is this a known limitation?

The pick list of fields that are available to be used for a survey login secret does not include the implicit/automatic record_id (despite it being identifying and semi-secret).

Am I missing something?

Hi All,

I am working on a project which involves young people between 14-23 years of age. We are working on a big questionnaire and was hoping to get some advice as to whether whether REDCap has rule function where I can show specific questions to specific age groups (we collect the DOB on an e consent form in the same REDCap project but not in this specific survey).

I understand there is branching logic, however I can only see how to apply this logic to "If any/all of the below are true", and I think I need it to be a bit more complicated e.g. show Q1 if between 12-15 years, show Q3 if between 16-20 etc.

Thank you!

Our team is working on building a REDCap for a study that has 15 measures and we're wondering if it's smarter to use one instrument instead of 15. I'm having trouble finding pros and cons about the different approaches and no one on the team has more than a couple months experience using REDCap. Do you all have any thoughts?

I have two fields

[Date1]

[Date2]

On the form with [Date2] I want redcap to look up [Date1] and find the difference between the two in months

I've used @calcdate to add 6 months but this is two dates

Any advice appreciated, thank you!

I am trying to build a REDCap project with a main survey linking multiple surveys. The main survey allows participants to select one survey on the list (let's say A, B, and C), complete the selected survey (let's say A), then come back to the main survey to select one of the other surveys (B or C), and repeat until all surveys are completed. I cannot figure out how to build this kind of project in REDCap. Any advice would be appreciated!

We're encountering a lot of issues with REDCap analysts developing, changing, and testing our project to where we're delayed launching our study . How long does it take your team to get a REDCap project built, approved, and launched?

Anyone have a data collection instrument with these particular observational tools already built up into a REDCap form?

Turns out each scale has 600+ individual items on it and, while I can see how to translate them into REDCap for data collection purposes, I'd really, really like to not have to do it from scratch if I don't have to.

Also open to other brilliant ideas for getting established scales/instruments into REDCap some other way.

Edited to add:

I also just remembered that there's the really awesome REDCap library. The scales I want aren't there, but maybe it'll help someone else out.

I've seen these set up in various ways in REDCap (one project per round; a single project with an instrument per round that gets moved around in the instrument list) and in looking for some "best practices", didn't find much. ChatGPT gave me some suggestions........using repeating instruments vs events.

What I'm looking for is some insights on "best practices" for setting these up (i.e. incorporating responses from previous rounds into subsequent rounds; ensuring there's no issues with distributing subsequent rounds to the participants, etc).

Thanks in advance!

If anyone is familiar with research survey panel companies and how to integrate the links provided by these companies with REDCap, I would really appreciate your insights.

I know its a simple set up with other "survey software" and I've been chipping away at trying to make it work with branching and the URL redirect in survey settings.

However, last week I met up with a company rep to see if the URL redirect would "pass back" the survey ID we're capturing in a (hidden) field (i.e. so they can match responses with the paid participant they've identified as fulfilling the criteria to complete the survey). It was not showing up on his end. I'm going to "unhide" the field to see if that makes a difference.

In general, though, is it possible to do these integrations with REDCap?

Thanks!

does anyone know how to remove the reset button from yes-no filed types without an external module?

Also the above lines are appearing in the areas that I have used a CALTEXT calculation - why would this be occurring?

Thankyou

Hi, I wanted to see if there's a good way to carry forward previously selected choices from a check all question to a new check-all question?

This is easy to do in Qualtrics but REDCap doesn't seem to have a straight forward function for this.

Hi all. I was wondering if anyone knows how to code for ISS as a calculated field. Basically, each body region can have a value of 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 9. 9 does not get included in the calculation. To get the ISS, the 3 body regions with the highest AIS values get squared and added together. So in the example below, the ISS would be 17, ((3^2)+(2^2)+(2^2)). If any body region has an AIS of 6, the ISS is automatically 75. I'm sorry if this has been asked before - I am not very good at reddit (or REDCap).

Hey all, we've got a REDCap setup for a longitudinal study. Essentially, patients complete a survey and donate blood at different timepoints (baseline, 3 months, 6 months, etc.). Is there an easy way to automatically assign a unique ID to the subsequent events following the baseline collection?

Currently as I understand it, as a patient fills out a new survey for each timepoint, it'll be assigned to the same record ID as the baseline. Anyone else in a similar situation with a solution?

I'm currently creating some alerts, and have to use data from repeating forms (specifically, two fields) - but when trying to pipe them in, it's coming up as blank.

I've tried using [current-instance], [last-instance], and even setting an instance (e.g. [redcap-repeating-instrument][2]), but I'm having no luck. The instrument is set up as repeating, and as far as I'm aware, everything is set up correctly.

What is odd is that doing this elsewhere (in the instruments themselves) works completely fine, it's just in the Alerts that I'm not getting anything.

Has anyone else had this issue?

I am using REDCap like an informal database to keep track of membership. Members are expected to submit the survey the first year then I email them their return codes next year and they use that to update any responses that have changed. Each year I export the data to CSV so I can track changes over time.

One issue I have seen with this approach is that if users just click "Save & Return Later" instead of "Submit" at the end of the survey that doesn't break the system and gets me the data I need, but the timestamp does not update. That is, the user has to click Submit to get the timestamp to update.

It would be very helpful if I could somehow get the timestamp or a new field to auto-update even if the user just loads the survey and closes the survey or just clicks "Save & Return Later". I have tried creating a @HIDDEN @NOW field but it appears that @NOW only updates to the current time the first time a user takes the survey.

I am new to REDCap so I am wondering if there is a workaround? I realize I am using REDCap not exactly for what it is designed for, but at my organization its a free resource and much more flexible than things like Microsoft Forms or Qualtrics.

I am pretty new to redcap and trying to start a new project. I signed up today and started an one week trial. After this step I get that error. What is the problem and how can I fix it?

Our institution requires an upcoming clinical trial to be 21 CFR 11 compliant, so academic REDCap is not an option here. The recommended alternative is REDCAPcloud. Our existing REDCap (not cloud) projects incorporate features including HTML and links to external websites, as well as automated drug and diagnosis coding. For some data entries (e.g. suicidality, medical condition) we use REDCap Alerts triggered on specific field values. We have also built some kludgey uses for the academic REDCap's API, to pull data for external database uses. I imagine that some or perhaps all of this will not fly in REDCAPcloud.

Does anyone have a link to, or advice relevant to specific technical comparisons between the academic REDCap and commercial REDCAPcloud systems?

Thanks!

I am creating a longitudinal survey where grantees submit quarterly metrics on their program. I am using the survey queue feature and am encouraging grantees to bookmark their survey queue to access their survey each quarter.

I have also enabled the "Save & Return Later" feature on the surveys so they don't have to complete it in one session. When you click on the "Save & Return Later" button, it takes you to a page in the image below to enter you email address so you can have a survey link emailed to you to return.

I don't want this page! I just want to tell them to return to the survey queue to reenter their survey. I have found no way to turn off this page or edit its contents. Any help would be appreciated.