Guide to Using Lifeguide

On this page you can learn the process of developing a Lifeguide Intervention.

• The Creating Content section has information on how to use the authoring tool to create pages.
• The Making Your Intervention Work section explains how to use the intervention logic file to link pages together and customise how your intervention works.
• The Publishing your Intervention section has information on how to use the Lifeguide server to publish and manage your intervention and view your user data.
• The Troubleshooting section helps you to interpret and fix Lifeguide errors

Creating Content

Creating an Intervention

Making a new intervention

Importing a whole intervention

Importing pages from another project

Making a Basic Page

Creating a page

Adding text

Adding borders and colour blocks

Adding pictures

Previewing a page

Advanced Page Editing

Using Templates

Formatting Text

Changing page size

Aligning items

Grouping Items

Layering items

Adding Audio and video

Using Containers

Cookies

File Organization

Lifeguide file structure

Naming pages best practice

Renaming pages

Renaming an intervention

Deleting pages

Deleting an intervention

Linking pages together

Using buttons

Using hyperlinks

Linking to a PDF or Word document

Making Your Intervention Work

The Intervention File - Making your pages work

Showing a page

Moving Between pages

Setting changeable information

Showing changeable information on a page

Using Interactions for text boxes and surveys

Adding Text entry boxes

Adding Radio buttons

Adding Checkboxes

Adding Drop-down Menus

Adding Calendars for date entry

Adding error messages for interactions

Managing Users

Registering users

Checking whether users have entered a unique value

Logging in and out

Letting users change their password

Resetting forgotten passwords

Personalising pages for users

Saving user interactions

Letting users see the right page when they log back in

Showing users the last seen page when they log back in

Calculating questionnaire results

Using Feedback boxes to personalise pages

Advanced Intervention Logic

Adding a graph to your intervention page

Showing users the current date and time

Using sections

Showing the same page more than once

The countif function

Showing an intervention page on a specific date

Showing an intervention page after a period of time

Text Messages and Emails

Sending an email on a certain date

Sending an email after a user has seen a page

Sending a text message

Cancelling emails and text messages

Randomisation and Questionnaires

Randomising users to a particular group

Randomising users into two or more groups

Preventing users from being randomised twice

Showing follow up questionnaires at the right time

Using the online version of EQ-5D

Publishing your Intervention

Using the Lifeguide Servers

How to use the LifeGuide Community Website

Uploading your intervention to the LifeGuide server

Viewing an intervention on the Lifeguide server

Testing your intervention

Sharing and commenting on your intervention

Sharing my intervention with other researchers

Commenting on an intervention

Sharing my intervention with the Lifeguide Community

Exporting all comments

Transferring ownership of an intervention

Getting User Data

Viewing how long participants have spent on pages of your intervention

Finding out what intervention group users have been randomised to

Recording the time at which users viewed an intervention page

Recording whether or not a user has completed a section of your intervention.

Exporting data from my intervention

Converting time stamps to readable dates and times

Troubleshooting

Logic Errors

Logic Warnings

Pages look wrong

Authoring tool problems

Intervention Running Slowly

Lifeguide Server Problems

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