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== The Basics - Building an Intervention and Creating Pages Using LifeGuide ==

[[How to create a new intervention within the authoring tool]]

[[How to start editing an existing intervention, i.e. how to import a project]] 

[[How to create a template to use the same formatting on every page of the intervention]]

[[How to create a new page in the authoring tool]]

[[How to copy entire intervention pages]]

[[How to rename an intervention or pages within an intervention]]

[[How to see what I have created in the authoring tool, i.e. how to preview your intervention]]

== The Basics - Adding Elements and Editing Pages ==

[[How to add text to a page]] 

[[How to format text on a page]]

[[How to change the look and feel of the intervention pages]] 

[[How to copy and paste items on a page]] 

[[How to make a page longer]] 

[[How to align items on the page]] 

[[How to order or layer items on the page]] 

[[How to group items together]]

== Adding Multi-media Elements to Your Intervention Pages ==

[[How to put images onto 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 put buttons on your intervention pages so that users can move between pages]] 

[[How to put in hyperlinks to other pages within the intervention]]

[[How to put in hyperlinks to external websites]] 

[[How to put a Word or PDF file onto your intervention page]]

[[How to show the intervention pages to the user]] 

[[How to check whether users have entered a unique value, e.g. Study ID code]]

[[How to stop users moving onto the next page before a certain condition has been satisfied]]

[[How to show users the current date and time]]

[[How to ask users questions and record their responses]] 

[[How to check whether users have entered valid information]]

[[How to allocate users a score based on their answers to a question or series of questions]]

[[How to tailor or change the information presented on a page based on information about the user]] 
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== Putting it all Together: How to Make Your Pages Work as an Intervention ==

[[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 break your logic down into smaller sections]] 

[[How to change what intervention pages are seen according to information about the user]]

[[How to save information about users and use it later in the intervention]]

[[How to set text as a printed variable]]

[[How to use containers]]

== Sharing and commenting on your intervention within your research team ==

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

[[How do I make a comment on an intervention?]]

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

[[How do I view and export all comments made about my intervention?]]

== Allowing Users to Log In and Out of Your Intervention (login logic) ==

[[How to register users to your intervention so that they can log in and out]] 

[[How to plan login logic]]

[[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]] 

[[How to let users change their password]]

[[How to give users a new password if they have forgotten it]]

== Putting Time Constraints in Your Intervention ==

[[How to automatically send an email from your intervention on a certain date]]  

[[How to show a particular intervention page on a specific date, e.g. showing a 'study has finished' page]]

[[How to show a particular intervention page when a specific amount of time has elapsed]]

== Incorporating Research Procedures Within Your Intervention ==

[[How to randomise users of the Intervention to a particular group or condition]]

[[How to randomise users into two groups]] 

[[How to randomise users into more than two groups]] 

[[How to stop users from being randomised twice]]

[[How to show follow up questionnaires at the right time]]

[[How to use the online version of EQ-5D in your intervention]]

How to make sure new intervention sessions become available at the right time

== Contacting Users of the Intervention == 

[[How to automatically send an email to the users of your intervention]] 

[[How to automatically send an email to you or your research team]] 

[[How to automatically send an email from your intervention on a certain date]] 

[[How to stop emails being automatically sent from your intervention (i.e. cancelling emails)]]

[[How to automatically send a text message to the users of your intervention]]

[[Testing Emails]]

== It Doesn’t Work! Fixing Problems in Your Intervention ==

[[How to fix the logic error “...”]]

== Getting the Data you Want from Your Intervention ==

[[How to find out how long participants have spent on a specific part of your intervention]]

[[How to find out what intervention group users have been randomised to]]

[[How to record the time at which users viewed an intervention page or completed a particular section of the intervention]]

[[How to record whether or not a user has completed a particular section of the intervention (e.g. a questionnaire)]]

[[How do I export data from my intervention?]]

[[How do I convert time stamps in my data to readable dates and times?]]

== Testing and Piloting Your Intervention ==

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

[[How to use the LifeGuide Community Website]]

[[Documenting errors]]

== Running, Trialling and Evaluating Your Intervention ==

[[How to upload your intervention onto the LifeGuide server so that users can see and use it]]