New Features REDCap version 9.5.35 (Feb 26, 2021)

New feature: Alerts & Notifications. The Alerts & Notifications feature allows you to construct alerts and send customized email notifications. These notifications may be sent to one or more recipients and can be triggered or scheduled when a form/survey is saved and/or based on conditional logic whenever data is saved or imported. When adding/editing an alert, you will need to 1) set how the alert gets triggered, 2) define when the notification should be sent (including how many times), and 3) specify the recipient, sender, message text, and other settings for the notification. For the message, you may utilize customized options such as rich text, the piping of field variables (including Smart Variables), and uploading multiple file attachments.

 

Force e-Consent signature fields to be erased when modifying responses. The e-Consent Framework setup on the Survey Settings page has a new option to allow users to specify up to five signature fields in the current survey, in which it will force all signature field values to be erased in the survey if the participant clicks Previous Page button while on the certification page.

 

New feature: Missing Data Codes. Project fields that have a blank/missing value may be marked with a custom "Missing Data Code" to note why the value is blank (e.g. NASK = Not Asked). You are able to define your own codes in any given project and in a format very similar to defining the choices of a multiple choice field. These missing data codes may be used to aid in data analysis by specifying why a field lacks a value. The codes will be saved as the literal data values for the fields and thus may be optionally exported in a data export, viewed in a report, or utilized in branching logic (among other things).