Item Type - Drawing location
Item Type - Drawing location| Menus > Setup/Maintenance > Maintain Templates > Item types > Item Type - Drawing location |
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Drawing location allows annotation or marking of a drawing. The typical use of this is where a location has a set of drawings or plans associated with it (eg. floor plans for a hospital). The appropriate drawing for the form in question can be selected and can be drawn on or marked in a simple fashion. When the completed form is return to the server this allows the creation and display of a real-time composite marked up drawing with interactive markers allowing viewing of individual complete forms. |
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Main |
Main screen for creating/amending a Drawing location item |
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| Question | This is the text “label” that is specifying the information that needs to be entered or the question to be answered. Although this is not necessarily a question in all cases, Question is used as the general term to cover the text shown next to an input field. The text should be as short as possible whilst still being self-explanatory. Over-long questions take up a lot of space on PDA screens with their restricted size, so try and make them concise. This text should be an aid to help guide the user through the screen. Any more explanatory text can be made available as “Auditor’s notes” or “Full question text”. | ||
| Mandatory |
Tick this box if the question is mandatory and leave it blank if it is optional. This will depend on whether the answer to this question is critical to the data that is being collected, such as signature to confirm customer acceptance. |
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| Pen width |
Early pen widths were a very thin 1px, but devices now default with 3px which can be modified here. |
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| Set fixed width of box in pixels (0 = no fixed width) |
Enter the width of the drawing location area in pixels. This may require some trial and error to achieve the optimum result for the device in use. |
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| Maximum width of box in pixels (0 = no maximum) |
Enter the width of the drawing location area in pixels. This will restrict modification of the device operator to prevent a drawing becoming ambiguous. |
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Advanced |
Advanced features of a Drawing location item. |
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| Background image file | If the background file to the image is always the same then the file name can be specified here. | ||
| Auditor's notes |
If you wish to offer the end-user guidance and direction on how to answer a question then use the Auditor’s notes field. This allows you to input any necessary text expanding on the basic question. For the end-user, the auditor’s notes are available via the “right click” option on the device – tap and hold the stylus on the question text. |
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| Full question (for report) |
The question text mentioned above should be framed in such a way as to indicate to the user the information that needs to be input. However, when this information is output on a report via the web site or a PDF additional wording may well be required. Use this field to phrase the original question in a way suitable for the report. |
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| Cross reference |
This field is output on reports to cross-reference the information with any relevant legislation etc. |
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| Don't keep previous result when part of a document lifecycle |
Tick this box if you DO NOT wish data collected in this template item to be copied to any jobs created directly from the original form. This is useful for a repeated task (such as booking in/out a rental item or repeated delivery) where the data remains the same but a sign-off is required so this box may be ticked for Date, Surname and Signature. Please note that if a transformation option is applied to the newly created job, this setting may be over-ruled. |
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| *Unique name |
The unique name must be entered for each item and is a mandatory field. The name is used internally and so is not generally of importance. A default value is generated by the system automatically. You may wish to override this value to have a “nicer” name if the field concerned is part of a calculation or if you are exporting the data to another system. |
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Display conditions (advanced) |
Display conditions for a Drawing location item. |
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| Only show when the following condition is true (1) | Enter a conditional statement that affects whether the input item is displayed on the device such as whether a previous answer has been yes or no. | ||
| Only show when the following condition is true (2) | Enter a conditional statement that affects whether the input item is displayed on the device such as whether a previous answer has been yes or no. | ||
| Record results when section isn't displayed | Tick this box if you wish results to be recorded when section isn't displayed. |
