Building your Intervention – The ‘How to...’ Guide

Building and Editing Pages Using LifeGuide

Adding Multi-media Elements to Your Intervention Pages

How to put a video or mp3 file onto your intervention page

How to add a graph to your intervention page

How to add a calendar option to your intervention page

Making Your Intervention Pages Do Things

How to stop users moving onto the next page before a certain condition has been satisfied Describe setting text boxes to error here.

How to tell users they have forgotten to answer a question

How to check whether users have entered valid information

How to check whether users have entered information correctly

How to allocate users a score based on their answers to a question or series of questions Explain setting text as a variable.

How to re-show information that users have told you Explain setting text as a variable. Explain work around for drop down single choice interactions using replaceall.

How to tailor or change the information presented on a page based on information about the user Also describe count if function.

How to put in hyperlinks to external websites

How to put in hyperlinks to other pages within the intervention

How to put a link to a pdf file onto your intervention page

How to ask users questions and record their responses

How to show users the current date or time

How to tell users the time or date that they viewed a particular page of the intervention or completed a particular section of the intervention

How to tell users how long it’s been since they last logged into the intervention

Putting it all Together: How to Make Your Pages Work as an Intervention

How to put buttons on your intervention pages so that users can move between pages

How to change the look and feel of buttons

How to show the intervention pages to the user

How to make sure that users see intervention pages in the correct order

How to show the same page more than once in the intervention

How to change what intervention pages are seen according to information about the user Include the count if function here…?

How to break your logic down into smaller sections

How to put in hyperlinks so that users can move between pages

How to preview your intervention pages to see if they look right and work in the way you expect

How to save information about users

How to use saved information about users

How to make sure that users see the right page when they log back into the intervention

How to make sure that users are sent back to the last seen page when they log back into the intervention

Your intervention and your research team

How do I share my intervention with other researchers in my team?

The LifeGuide Community website has been designed to facilitate collaborative development and design of online interventions.

You will first need to create an intervention folder and upload an intervention to your folder in order to share the intervention with selected users.

To share your intervention with members of your research team:

Choose 'edit' on you intervention folder
Under researchers, type in the email address of the person you would like to share your intervention folder with and click on 'send invitation'. They will then be sent an email with a link and a code to enter to enable them to be added to their folder (if they are not yet registered on the LifeGuide Community website, they will be prompted to do this first).
These researchers will be added to your list of current researchers and will be able to play and/or comment on any new interventions that you add to that folder.

The names of any other registered LifeGuide users who you have shared your intervention folders with in the past are kept in the list to the left. These can be added to the current list of researchers by selecting their name and then clicking the 'add researcher' button.

You may wish to notify your team that the intervention is ready to view. You can do this through the LifeGuide Community site by selecting the Email the Intervention Researchers link under the Intervention Operations list on the Intervention Details page.

Researchers can be removed by:

going into the Edit page,
selecting the researcher in the current researchers box
selecting the remove researcher button

How do I make a comment on an intervention?

Select the Play and Comment mode for the intervention that you wish to comment on.

To make comments per page:

Use the buttons within the intervention to navigate through pages
When you reach a page you wish to comment on, write your message in the box provided
Click on the Save button.
Your message will appear in the Comments about this page list and anyone else who visits this page after you will be able to see the comments you have made and make any additional comments about the page.

There is no word limit for how long your comment can be or how many comments can be made on each page, making it an ideal function for collaborative design with other members of your team.

Posted comments can be edited or deleted by the author using the options above the comment.

To write general comments about an intervention, click on Intervention Details where you will be able to see the intervention’s discussion board

How can I show my intervention to everyone on the LifeGuide Community website?

When you upload your intervention you can select the demo option to show your full intervention for everyone on the LifeGuide Community to view and comment on, or the tutorial option to share a short demo relating to a specific LifeGuide function. See "How do I upload an intervention to the LifeGuide Community website?" for more information.