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How to Create Mixed Format Same-Page Presentations


PG Executable Forms presents ALL events on a single scrollable Web page.  Combinations of multiple-event and serial presentation formats provide two other format options, namely the Blocked Form Presentation and the Mixed Presentation.  

All of these presentations are set up in the same way - which is by making the events that you wish to be presented on a single Webpage into routine ProtoGenie Event Arrays.  See PG Executable Forms.  To create an array, create the individual events and click on Support Events in the Create Events dropdown menu and select Event Array.  In the dialog that comes up, the events that are to be members of the array are collected and given an Array Name.  

To instruct ProtoGenie to present these selected events on the same page, click on the checkbox "Present Events On The Same Page To Create a PG Executable Form."  Selection of this option will present the events in the order that they appear in the array in a single column one page wide.  Development of capabilities to arrange multiple events in more complex layouts on a single page, as in multiple columns and in different fonts and styles, is on the drawing board. 

Complex presentation patterns are simple applications of the above procedures.  For example, suppose that you wish to present the events in your protocol in the following way:

Block 1   Ten questions on one page (as in a questionnaire)
Single Q.     One question by itself
Block 2   Thirty questions on another page
Single Q.   One question by itself

Create the 10 questions Block 1 and make it an array and give it a name like "Block 1."  Create the 30 questions for Block 2 and make it an array and give it a name like "Block 2." 

Now, under the Sequencing tab of the Protocol Composer/Editor, click on the event (array) "Block 1" and click on the arrow to move it to the execution list.  Click on the name of the first variable to be presented by itself and put it in the execution list.  Do the same for  Block 2 and the second single question.  Make certain they are in the order that they should be executed.

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