Layout

Working with Multiple Page Clinical Assessment Layout Documents

While working with multiple page assessment layouts, you can select the page you want work on by selecting the corresponding page number from the dropdown in the toolbar. You can append a new page by pressing the

button in the toolbar.

Once you are down with a document you can select File->Save As to save the layout document in XML. You can load a saved layout document via File->Open menu item.

Editing container and display element properties

To edit a display component double click on the component, which will popup a property dialog, where you can edit the properties of the display component. (See Tools Menu Documentation).
To edit the grid layout of a container, double-click in an empty grid cell or Ctrl-double click in the container. Please note that, if multiple containers are nested and you want to edit one of those outer cells, Ctrl- double click outside the border of the container that is included by the container you want to edit.
You can delete a display element by right clicking on that display element which shows a popup menu, from which you select Delete.
To copy a display component, right click and select Copy from the popup menu.
To copy a group of display components ( for example to copy a whole laid out question ), select Tools->Select Components or (Alt - S) and press the left mouse button outside of the container/ display component(s) you want to select and drag the mouse till the rubber band totally includes the container / display component(s) you want to select and release the button. Then right click and select Copy from the popup menu.
To logically group or ungroup a group of display components ( like a group of radio buttons ) to be associated with a score, select Tools->Select Components or (Alt - S) and press the left mouse button outside of the container/ display component(s) you want to select and drag the mouse till the rubber band totally includes the container / display component(s) you want to select and release the button. Then right click and select Logically Group Selection or UnGroup Selection from the popup menu.
Since what constitutes a question is based on the content, the components belonging to a question needs to be explicitly specified to CALM especially for generating logic for unanswered questions, notes handing and multi-answer question logic handling. This is acomplished by;

selecting Tools->Select Components (or pressing Alt - S) and pressing the left mouse button outside of the container/ display component(s) you want to select and drag the mouse till the rubber band totally includes the container / display component(s) you want to select and releasing the button.
Right clicking and selecting Group Selection as a Question from the popup menu.
Editing the question meta data (like question type (regular or multi-answer and attributes like minimum and maximum number of answers) in the shown dialog box.

To ungroup a selected question, select Tools->Select Components or (Alt - S) and press the left mouse button outside of the container/ display component(s) you want to select and drag the mouse till the rubber band totally includes the container / display component(s) you want to select and release the button. Then right click and select Ungroup Selected Question from the popup menu.

Creating a multi-answer question

A multi-answer question, (like drug dosage history) is laid out like any regular question with following two constraints

Each multi-answer question needs to be contained within a single container row. Since containers can be nested arbitarily, the layout possibilities within that single container row is not limited.
Each multi-answer question needs to have an Add button component to add new input inputs for additional answers (upto the max allowed answer limit)

Once a multi-answer question laid out, the input fields can be logically grouped (for mutually exclusive radio button groups, and check box groups) and associated with their corresponding scores like a regular question. Then the question needs to be grouped (See Group Selection as a Question above) and the question metadata information needs to be supplied

question type = multi-answer
Min Answer = 1 (always needs to be one currently)
Max Answer (> 1) (Even if you don't know the possible maximum answer number provide a conservative guess)