Adding sections or fields in EpiData Manager
When creating a form in the Manager, such a form will, generally, contain many fields and possibly more than one section. It is not clear to me how one adds sections and/or fields upon reaching the bottom of the screen (which seems to occur at a height of about 610 as measured from the top) as there is no vertical scroll bar to move a blank page into focus into which such fields or sections can be added. If this can't be done, then surely this limits how many sections and fields can be created. The sample file, for instance, spreads over two pages, so how were the later sections added after the first few were created? Apologies if a stupid question ... All thoughts on this would be most appreciated.
Neville
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Neville, what I have been doing is creating a new section and then dragging it to the bottom of the page. The page should automatically be stretched to accommodate for the new section. Hope this works.
Jonathan
From: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca To: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Date: 2011-07-26 11:03 AM Subject: [EpiData-list] Adding sections or fields in EpiData Manager Sent by: epidata-list-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca
When creating a form in the Manager, such a form will, generally, contain many fields and possibly more than one section. It is not clear to me how one adds sections and/or fields upon reaching the bottom of the screen (which seems to occur at a height of about 610 as measured from the top) as there is no vertical scroll bar to move a blank page into focus into which such fields or sections can be added. If this can't be done, then surely this limits how many sections and fields can be created. The sample file, for instance, spreads over two pages, so how were the later sections added after the first few were created? Apologies if a stupid question ... All thoughts on this would be most appreciated.
Neville
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The problem of "max length" of a dataform is known and we will somehow handle this soon - I expect.
A workaround now is to either: a. Move a section below the bottom line (as Jonathan wrote on July 26th) b. Use the function keys to add fields at the end: (notice that this has changed to numeric fields 1...5 or shift+1...5) shift+1: integer field shift+2: float field shift+3: string field shift+4: date field (default current type) shift+5: heading line
The reason is that the form now is only showing "actual content" and therefore is restricted to end at the bottom line.
A simple way to extend the form if you wish would then be to: 1 add four heading lines (shift+5 four times). 2 add a heading line (shift+5) 3 hit enter which will activate the property form for the heading line - change content to "." 4 delete the four first added headings (point and delete)
regards Jens Lauritsen EpiData Association ps - documentation on function keys will be revised next week on the wiki site.
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