When editing a TouchPoint's settings, you may notice an option for TouchPoint Identifiers. When enabled, the identifier will appear in a column on the View Participant TouchPoints page.
Identifiers can be useful for differentiating between TouchPoint responses when a user has taken the same TouchPoint multiple times.
You can set the identifier to populate with the following options:
Use current Program name as Identifier
This uses the Program Name as the identifier. This can be useful if the Participant takes the TouchPoint from multiple Programs.
Automatically generate Identifier
This will make a string of text by concatenating:
The participant's initials,
Your Site ID (viewable in the Who am I? page)
The Participant Site ID
The Form ID followed by a hyphen
How many times this TouchPoint has been taken.
Note: Keep in mind that deleted responses still count towards this number; if a user has two responses and deletes one, the next response will have a '3' at the end.
This option is useful because it can create a unique value for each response which can help with data aggregation.
Allow user to create Identifier
This allows a user to type in an identifier themselves. It also has the option to make this a required field. When users put in the identifier themselves, it can be used to mark a TouchPoint response and offer a snippet of the information in the response.
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The default option is to not use an identifier. Some TouchPoints may not need an identifier, so this gives administrators the option to turn them off.
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