Description is greyed out as it is not required. Give the Horizontal Rule a unique name (required) use something self ‘field’ – explanatory like HR_1 which uses an underscore instead of a blank space [good practice] In the example the HR has been dragged up between location & dime/date and species based fields to separate them Click the Save and Preview button Survey Preview Screen Next let’s add some on screen help to advise what to do in each section - click the Go Back Button. HTML On Screen Help – Two new field rows of type HTML have been added here to provide help on logging location and species details together with a Selection field for weather conditions. To add content to the HTML click on the column element Description on the Form An HTML Editor window pops open type or your on screen instructions/help or – section title or whatever you want. The basic editor has buttons across the top for making text bold, italic, into lists, headings and so on. We recommend that you write the material first then copy and paste text into the screen. We use free open source tools like Notepad++ for this and other BDRS development. There are also WYSIWYG HTML editors out there that allow you to write like in Word and then copy the HTML. Tip Keep it simple too much text can be too much of a good thing, making simple – things look complicated and using up valuable screen real estate on small screens and devices. The example has some headings as visual separators to go with the horizontal rules and a couple of image fields for attaching photos.
Description is greyed out as it is not required. Give the Horizontal Rule ‘field’ a unique name (required) – use something self explanatory like HR_1 which uses an underscore instead of a blank space [good practice] In the example the HR has been dragged up between location & dime/date and species based fields to separate them Click the Save and Preview button Survey Preview Screen Next let’s add some on screen help to advise what to do in each section - click the Go Back Button. HTML – On Screen Help Two new field rows of type HTML have been added here to provide help on logging location and species details together with a Selection field for weather conditions. To add content to the HTML click on the Description on the Form column element An HTML Editor window pops open – type or your on screen instructions/help or section title or whatever you want. The basic editor has buttons across the top for making text bold, italic, into lists, headings and so on. We recommend that you write the material first then copy and paste text into the screen. We use free open source tools like Notepad++ for this and other BDRS development. There are also WYSIWYG HTML editors out there that allow you to write like in Word and then copy the HTML. Tip Keep it simple – too much text can be too much of a good thing, making simple things look complicated and using up valuable screen real estate on small screens and devices. The example has some headings as visual separators to go with the horizontal rules and a couple of image fields for attaching photos.
BDRS-Managing-Surveys-2012-FINAL1.docx