Features:

The Telehealth questionnaire builder is a multi-featured, simple-to-use tool that can be extended by users to include custom queries and custom reports.

Users can create their own questionnaires, each with as many questions as desired.

Questionnaire data can be formatted in data entry forms and in reports in a variety of ways. For example, a question can be as simple as a series of multi-check boxes:

Or, can include a mixture of multi-select checkboxes, short answers, labels and headings organized in tabular format:

Reports: can be created from queries on the questionnaire data entered. EX:

The Question Builder form: allows users to specify the content and the look of their questionnaire questions by way of a compact symbolic language:

Questionnaire Language Specification:

Guidelines for formatting questions

Here are some quick samples to demonstrate what to enter

in the Choices text box in the Question Builder form:

To show two checkbox responses with descriptions ‘Yes’ and ‘No’:

Yes~No

Or alternatively, you can use carriage returns to separate fields:

Yes

To show a textbox short answer:

To show a check box only with no description:

To show a label, ‘Model #’:

`Model #

To show a check box with a user editable description:

EX:

`Equipment_used:~@~@

or:

`Equipment_used:

@~@

In either case, the output looks like:

Equipment_used:

x ______

To create a 3 column table with 3 column captions and provide the user with a textbox short answer for column 1, another textbox short answer for column 2 and a check box for column 3:

`Hotel~`Number of suites~`Room service~ ^ ~ ^ ~ &

Also, set ‘# of columns’ = 3 on the form

The output in the questionnaire form will look something like this:

Hotel Number of suites Room service

________ ______________ x

To put a horizontal line between the labels and the user answers in the above example:

`Hotel~`Number of suites~`Room service~#~^ ~ ^ ~ &

The output in the questionnaire form will look something like this:

Hotel Number of suites Room service

==========================================

________ ______________ x

To blank out the middle column label in the above example:

`Hotel~*~`Room service~#~^ ~ ^ ~ &

The output in the questionnaire form will look something like this:

Hotel Room service

==========================================

________ ______________ x

Complete table of formatting codes

Symbol

Description

Example

Output

Notes

Field delimiter

Apple~Orange~Banana~#~Pear

x Apple

x Orange

x Banana

x Pear

Note that all textboxes, labels, checkboxes and formatting codes MUST be separated by the delimiter ~. If you type …Banana#, you won’t get the horizontal line; the ‘#’ will be treated as part of the Banana checkbox label.

Text box

____________

Check box with no description

Check box with editable description

X __________

Label

`My label

My label

Horizontal line

==========

Row caption

!My row caption

My row caption

Regardless of the # of columns setting, subsequent fields will be output on next row

Blank field

`Apples~*~`Oranges

Apples

Oranges

Set # cols to 3.

Indent

>4~`Apples

Apples

The label ‘Apples’ will be have 4 preceding tab stops.

Set label height factor

\1.5~`Apples~`Oranges~\1 ~`Bananas

Apples

Oranges

Ban

Anas

Set #cols to 3. The labels ‘Apples’, ‘Oranges’ will be 1.5 times higher than default setting. The label ‘Bananas’ and all subsequent will output at normal height. (Data entry form applicable only)

Set text box height factor

/3~ ^ ~ ^

_____

The two text boxes and any subsequent will be 3 times normal height. This is useful when you expect the user will type in a lot of text and will appreciate the larger size text boxes. (Data entry form applicable only)

]

Set text box width factor

]2~^~^

_____

The two text boxes and any subsequent will be 2 tab stops in width. (A tabstop is roughly 5 characters). This is useful when you wish text fields to have short widths rather than spanning the form’s entire width. (Data entry form applicable only)

Set the # of columns and custom widths for each column

<50,20,30~`Name~`Age~`Phone#

Name Age Phone#

Sets style to a tabular 3 column output. The first column ‘Name’ is given 50% of the form or report’s width. The second column ‘Age’ is allocated 20% of the space, the third, ‘Phone#’ is allocated 30%. The percentages don’t have to sum to 100% (they can be less but not more). You can have multiple instances of this command per question, which allows you to have as many tables per question as you want, all of various columnar sizes.

Turn on/off vertical textbox scrollbars

_1~^~^~_0~^

_____

The first two text boxes appear with vertical scrollbars, the third one doesn’t. The user must click in the text box for the scrollbar to appear. (Data entry form applicable only)

Conditional label block

Yes~:~>4~`If yes, describe equipment~>4~^~:~No

This is a report only feature. Suppose the user selects the ‘No’ checkbox. The user has not typed a response for the ‘..describe equipment’ text box, so all labels enclosed in the “: … :” block are suppressed on the report.

The rule is: all labels in the block are suppressed if the user doesn’t select at least one checkbox or fill in at least one textbox in the block.

;

Set column increment

`Apples~;2~`Fruit cup~;1;@~@~^

Apples Fruit cup

Set # cols = 3. Suppose we wish the caption ‘Fruit cup delights’ to span the last two columns. Then before the label, put ‘;2’ to specify a column increment of 2. (Remember to reset the column increment back to normal size after you have done the special formatting. (as shown by ‘;1’ after

‘`Fruit cup delight’ in the example)