Introduction
In some universities, users need to fill long participant questionnaires. This information may/may not be available at the time of participant registration in the application.
For this purpose, the feature draft data entry is implemented in version 10.2. On enabling the setting at the CP level, users are allowed to save the participants along with its annotation data in draft mode. Draft mode means that there wont be any online validations or data edit checks performed.
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Once they have added all the data they can click on 'Update' participant which changes the status to complete
How to enable this setting?
Navigate to the CP Settings -> Label format and Settings -> 'Draft Data Entry' Enabled
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User will not be forced to enter data into any mandatory fields setup in the form or workflow when entering in draft mode. Even the edit checks validations will be performed when user updates the participant. The operations performed via user interface are available in the bulk import template as well.
Bulk Import Template
Participants bulk import template available inside the collection protocol has a new column ‘Data Entry Status’ added which accepts values 'DRAFT' and 'COMPLETE'.
Reporting
User can query for the ‘Draft’ mode participants by querying the field ‘Data Entry Status’ equals ‘DRAFT’
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