Form design

Tutorials

Guided, learning-oriented lesson designed to lead you through a series of steps to accomplish a specific task, fostering understanding of features in ActivityInfo.

• Design a Form
• Add and deploy a survey using a collection link

How-tos

Goal-oriented set of instructions, providing step-by-step directions to address specific real-world problems, designed for users with some prior experience

• Adding a folder
• Using Serial Number fields
• Referencing the Geodatabase

Relationships

• Adding a Reference field
• Adding a Reference field to reference many fields of another Form (cascading effect)
• Adding a reverse reference field

Managing forms

• Copying a Subform to a new Form
• Designing long questionnaires with a spreadsheet
• Duplicating a Form
• Moving a form to a different folder
• Replicating Relevance and Validation rules

Calculations

• Calculating age from birthdate
• Record the start time of an interview
• Scoring a series of Likert scale questions

Field Types

• Designing a Form with a Subform

Data quality

• Set a validation rule using the rule builder
• Set up an approval workflow
• Tracking participant attendance with QR codes
• Validating phone numbers with regular expressions
• Validating registration numbers with input masks
• Validating writing scripts

Explanations

Explanations serve to clarify and shed light on specific topics, contributing to a deeper understanding.

• Specifying a Record Label
• Specifying a Key field

Reference

Precise technical descriptions focusing on providing exhaustive information on key elements.

• Form import/export spreadsheet format

Field Types

• Attachment
• Barcode
• Calculated
• Date
• Fortnight
• Geographic Point
• Month
• Multi-line text
• Multiple Selection
• Quantity
• Section header
• Serial Number
• Single Selection
• Subform
• Text
• User
• Week

Field Properties

• Code
• Default value
• Description
• Hide from entry
• Hide in table
• Key
• Label
• Read-only
• Relevance rules
• Required
• Translation
• Unique