REDCap Updates

REDCap 15.5.8 LTS

The most relevant changes are highlighted in red.

Category Description Introduced
Fields

NEW ACTION TAGS:

@SAVE-PROMPT-EXEMPT - This action tag is useful for preventing the "Save your changes?" warning prompt under certain conditions when navigating away from a data entry form or survey page. Adding this to a field will prevent any changes to the field's value from individually triggering the "Save your changes?" prompt when someone navigates away from the page without clicking the Save button. Please note that when using this action tag, if another field's value is also modified on the page, the "Save your changes?" prompt will be displayed to the user because this action tag only affects the individual field's ability to trigger the warning prompt. 

@SAVE-PROMPT-EXEMPT-WHEN-AUTOSET - This action tag is similar to the @SAVE-PROMPT-EXEMPT action tag, but its effect is limited to the initial setting of a field's value when the value is blank at the time the form/survey page is loaded. Use this action tag to prevent action tags such as @DEFAULT, @SETVALUE, @TODAY, or @NOW from triggering the "Save your changes?" prompt when someone navigates away from the page without clicking the Save button.

 15.2.0
Instruments For longitudinal projects with repeating events, Form Display Logic (FDL) can now be utilized within a specific repeating event. For example, if the FDL references a field inside a repeating event, that field can be used to reference a value in a specific repeating instance of the event, including the current instance (e.g., keep form X enabled if [field][previous-instance] = "1" or [field2][current-instance] > 30). This provides more flexibility so that forms within individual instances of a repeating event can be enabled/disabled via FDL at the instance level. In previous versions, FDL could not work at the instance level but merely applied the FDL to all repeating instances of a given repeating event as a whole. Note: This improvement only applies to repeating events and not to repeating instruments. 15.3.2
Alerts & Notifications

NEW FEATURE: Pause Recurring Alerts setting - For alerts that are triggered by conditional logic, in which the alert has the "Ensure logic is still true..." checkbox checked, users can now utilize a new checkbox option titled "Allow pausing of recurrences? (Existing interval will continue if the logic becomes true again after becoming false.)". This setting is optional for Alerts & Notifications. When enabled together with the 'Ensure logic is still true...' setting, REDCap will pause (instead of deleting) any already-scheduled recurrences of this alert when the alert's logic becomes false. This is useful if you expect the logic to become true again in the future. This may be the case specifically with time-based logic, such as datediff().

 15.4.0
MyCap MyCap-enabled projects are now able to receive data for Signature type fields from the MyCap mobile app. In previous versions, Signature fields could not be used in the MyCap app. 15.4.1
MyCap When using MyCap, there now exists support for latitude and longitude fields (via action tags @latitude and @longitude) inside MyCap tasks when participants open a task in the MyCap app. 15.4.5
Survey

NEW FEATURE: Custom CSS styling for individual forms and surveys

  • Users may now optionally define custom CSS styling for an individual survey on the Survey Settings page, and on the field-level Online Designer page they may define custom CSS styling for that data entry form. The form and survey CSS are separate controls that are only applied on a data entry form and survey page, respectively.
  • The form-level CSS setting (but not the survey CSS setting) is subject to draft mode when in production status, and if a change is made to the form-level custom CSS, a side-by-side comparison of the changes can be seen on the draft mode project modifications review page before the drafted changes are approved.
  • The survey-level custom CSS setting on a given survey can be easily copied to other surveys in the project using the "Copy design to other surveys" button on the Survey Settings page.
  • Note: There is a warning on both the form and survey custom CSS settings that informs users of the following things: "Use with caution. Please note that targeting internal REDCap elements (e.g., specific classes or IDs) may break without notice, as updates to REDCap can change or remove these elements at any time. Stability of these selectors across versions is not guaranteed, and any changes to them will not be announced in advance.
 15.5.0
Records

NEW FEATURE: Record limit for development projects

  • Summary: If enabled, a warning message will be displayed in the project's user interface to inform users that more records cannot be created in the project after the record limit has been met, and users will be prevented from creating any new records in the project. This record limit is only enforced on projects in development status. Once a project is in production or is inactive, this check will not be performed.
 15.5.0