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Guidance Events
A Guidance Event is one of nine types of Support Event (Guidance Events, Branching Point Event, Calendarize Event, Event Iterations, Event Array, Study Context Events, Unspecified Support Events, Randomized Event, and Goodbye Event.
Broadly speaking, the Support Event type called Guidance Events amounts to the investigator narrating what is going on and saying what should be done next in a study while it is in progress. This includes alerts, status reports, explanations, prompts, and instructions. Some of these events are as short as a screen that says, "Ten Minute Intermission" or as long as instructions for creating a sample for the study. Some events will occur before data collection begins and some will occur after.
A simple example of a guidance type support event would be a welcome screen with instructions to the subject or to the session supervisor. To make this event click on the Events tab and then on Create. From the dropdown menu, select Measurement, Support, and then Guidance Event.
Note that a new event called "New Guidance Support Event" now appears in the six column table called "Event Specification Table." In this table, the first (narrow) column contains an "S" in a circle indicating that this is a "Support Event." The "Event Type" (second column) is "Guidance." Click on the temporary label "New Guidance Support Event" and enter the name you wish to call this event.
Scroll down to the Instrument Construction Area.* On the top left, you will see the name that you gave this event. In the text field below the name, you might enter something like:
"Greetings Session Supervisors
(Instructions)
* Note that this the Instrument Construction Area is a floating window that you can reposition on your screen. For example, to move it up, click anywhere on the top bar and drag it while holding down the mouse. When you leave this page and return, it will remember this position.