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Custom Fields Quick Reference

Go to Administration->Custom Registration->Custom Fields to edit your custom registration questions.

Field Types

The following field types are supported:
  • Text Field - Single freeform text field that allows up to 255 characters.
  • Paragraph - Larger area to allow users to enter comments, etc. Choose a number of Rows to determine how big the paragraph response area will be
  • Checkbox - Use for a yes/no type of question. Enter a "1" in Value if you want the Checkbox to be checked by default.
  • Dropdown - A drop down list of options.
  • Autocomplete - The customer will begin typing their answer and a list of suggestion completions will be shown as they type. A good option when a Dropdown would be too big to be useful, typically if you have more than about 30 possible answers, but you still want to provide guidance and not depend on a freeform Text Field.

Field Type Parameters

  • Question - This should be a short way to ask your question, ie "School" - this will be displayed on the customer's registration form. Avoid using too-wordy questions.
  • Description - Use this to describe the question internally. This is not displayed to end-users. For your reference.
  • Size - Slide the bar to change the size of your input field. If you have a Text Field, this determines the width of the answer area. If you have a multi-select Dropdown, this determines the number of options displayed at once.
  • Value - On Dropdown or Autocomplete fields these are the values to be listed and selected from. For a Text Field or Paragraph, this optional value will be displayed in the answer area by default. Click on the 'add' link to add another Value and click on the 'X' link to remove one.
  • Rows - Shown only for Paragraph type. Slide the bar to get the box to the size you want.



Maintaining Fields

A list of the questions you've created will show at the bottom of the Custom Fields management page.  Click on "edit" to modify an existing field and click on "X" to remove.  If you remove a custom field and customers have already answered that question, their question and answer will still appear in the custom registration reports. However, the removed question will not appear on any custom forms that it may be part-of and customers will no longer be asked that question. It is better to remove questions from the forms using the Custom Form manager if you don't want to ask them anymore, but if your list of old questions becomes too long you may find yourself wanting to remove them here.