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How to Create Events
There are three types of EVENTS that you can create from scratch for use in a protocol. They are measurement events, treatment (intervention) events, and control (procedural) events.
Note: There is one unique kind of Event, which is a combined Treatment and Measurement Event. This simply means that the Treatment (such as a picture) appears on the same page as the Measurement. It is called a "Same-Page Stimulus & Measurement event. For details on this special kind of event, click here.
To create an event, log on and go to the personal or public library that contains it. Click on the title of the protocol. In the User Action Menu, click on Edit. This takes you to the main page of the Composer called the Edit Protocol Page.
Click on the Events Tab and then on Create at the top left of the Event Specification Table. From the dropdown list, select a category of events (Measurement, Treatment, or Control) and then within that category, select a Type from that category. For example, select "Measurement" as the category and "Multiple Choice" as the type of measurement.
This new event will appear in the "Event Specification Table." For the example of the measurement event, the new event would be called "New Measurement Event." In the first column of this row, there will be an "M" in a circle indicating that this event is a Measurement. To its right and under Event Type it will say "Multiple Choice."
In the column labeled "Variable," enter a name that will be used by the database (all one word). In the column labeled Keywords, enter words that refer to this event. In the column labeled "Event Description," enter a description of the event.
To remove an event, click on Edit and Delete.