Optimizing Checklists: Understanding Question Type Options and Settings
When building checklists, it's essential to explore the diverse options and settings available for each question type. These customization features empower you to tailor the behaviour and functionality of your checklist items, aligning them precisely with your requirements. Let's delve into the various question types and the corresponding options and settings that elevate the usability and effectiveness of your checklists.
1. Required:
Ensures a response is mandatory for a question, preventing users from proceeding without providing an answer.
2. Hidden:
Allows you to hide a question, useful for internal purposes or when visibility depends on specific conditions.
3. Exclude Report:
Excludes the question and its response from generated reports or summaries.
4. Editable:
Determines whether users can modify responses after submission, offering flexibility for updates.
5. Default Value:
Pre-fills a question with a predefined response, saving time and providing suggested answers.
6. Secure:
Masks the response input, making it unreadable as users type, ensuring security for sensitive information.
7. Require Media:
Ensures users provide media (e.g., photos or videos) as part of their response when enabled.
8. Require Note:
Mandates users to provide additional notes or explanations for more comprehensive information.
9. Min Length and Max Length:
Sets minimum and maximum character limits for text-based responses, ensuring specific length requirements.
10. Instruction:
Provides contextual guidance or instructions for users regarding a particular question.
11. Decimal, Min, and Max:
Applicable to numeric questions, allowing decimal values and defining the range within which the response must fall.
12. Unit Types, Step, and Enable Score:
Useful for numeric questions involving measurements or scoring, specifying unit types, setting increment values, and enabling scores.
13. Items, Label, Calculation, and Categories:
Apply to list-based questions, defining options, custom labelling, facilitating calculations, and enabling grouping or categorising.
14. Scope:
Determines the visibility based on conditions or user roles, offering dynamic control over when and where a question appears.
15. Site, Date, and Time:
Specific to questions about site locations, dates, and times, providing specialized input methods and validation criteria.
16. Future Date Only and Prior Date Only:
Limits date input to future or prior dates based on checklist requirements.
17. Allow N/A:
Enables users to mark a question as "Not Applicable" when the task or condition does not apply to them.
18. Allow Photo Library and Allow Multi Photo:
Applicable to multimedia questions, allowing selection from the photo library and attachment of multiple photos to a single response.
19. Allow GPS Tagging:
Enables automatic geotagging of the user's location when responding to a question, useful for tracking location-specific data.
20. Resolutions and Quality:
Relate to multimedia questions, specifically photos and videos, defining image or video quality settings.
By leveraging these options and settings for different question types, create adaptable, user-friendly checklists tailored to your needs. Customize your checklists to optimize data collection, streamline processes, and enhance the overall user experience.