Demo of new REDCap features

I will demonstrate many of REDCap’s new features via Zoom on Wednesday, October 26th, at 10am. Join if you can!

Join Zoom Meeting, October 26th, 10am MDT
https://njhealth.zoom.us/j/84603200404
Meeting ID: 846 0320 0404
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See below for a list of the primary new features/improvements and keep scrolling down for more details on each.

Survey Settings: changes and new features
• Customize survey width
• Show or hide the Submit button
• Option for alternative text for Submit, New Page, and Previous Page buttons
• Conditional logic for Survey Auto-Continue
• New option for ‘must provide value’ text

Survey Start Time and related Smart Variables
• REDCap now collects when participants begin a survey
• New Smart Variables for Survey Start Date/Time
• New Smart Variables for Survey Duration

Updates within User Rights
• Show/Hide suspended users
• Instrument-level Data Export rights

Help & FAQ page changes
• Sub-sections on the “Help & FAQ” page can now be accessed via hyperlinks near the top of each section
• Each tab on the “Help & FAQ” page now has a drop-down list of subsections that, when selected, will auto-scroll the webpage down to that subsection on the page

New features
• Dynamic min/max range limits for fields
• New action tag: @FORCE-MINMAX
• New field validation: “Time (HH:MM:SS)”
• Calendar Sync

Other Changes
• Piping can now be performed inside the value of the @PLACEHOLDER action tag – e.g., @PLACEHOLDER=”[first_name] [last_name]”
• Hyperlinks created in the rich text editor will now default to being opened in a new tab/window
• When scrolling down the page in the Online Designer when adding/editing fields, an up-arrow image will appear at the bottom right of the page that (when clicked) will quickly scroll the page back to the top
• Added a “Contact REDCap administrator” link near the top of the project left-hand menu
• In the “Compose Survey Invitations” dialog on the Participant List page, the Actions drop-down for auto-selecting checkboxes for participants in the participant list now contains a new option: “Check Not Responded and Partial Response”
• The Codebook now contains a “Field Finder” to allow users to quickly search for a field by keyword or phrase in the field label or by variable name. Also, the gray “Instrument Name” rows in the table will float at the top of the page while scrolling so that it is always apparent the instrument to which a field belongs. Additionally, when scrolling down the page, an up-arrow image will appear at the bottom right of the page that (when clicked) will quickly scroll the page back to the top.