All GOOD Data Collection programs must display instructions on each prompt about what data is to be collected. It is also important to give the user the ability to notice when data has been entered incorrectly so they can go back and fix mistakes before moving on. This can be done by displaying Prompt Response and/or Prompt Lookup variables of a Prompt on later Prompts. The user can then visually confirm the Prompt Response has been entered correctly.

It is also useful to display User-defined variables on prompts to display information useful during data collection, but that does not get saved as Collected Data.

DETAILS

There are 8 lines of Display available on a Single Prompt and each line can display 20 characters of text. To display a Prompt Response or Prompt Lookup variables simply reference the appropriate variable on one or more of these display Lines.

User: $User$
Name: #User#
Dept: @Dept@

The $User$ variable displays the current Prompt Response of the 'User' Prompt and #User# displays the current Prompt Lookup. @Dept@ displays the current value of the User-Define variable @Dept@.

• $PromptName$ = Prompt Response variable which holds the data entered for the Prompt.
  


• #PromptName# = Prompt Lookup variable which holds a field from a validation file which can be looked up based on the Prompt Response.
  


• @UserVariable@ = User-defined Variable which holds a value assigned to it from one of the scripts within the program.
  

This article last updated: 1/1/2009 12:00:00 AM