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Stories are the way you track progress.

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How to do it

There are several ways to create stories on Makerble:

  1. Timeline Updates from

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  1. a Contact Profile page

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  2. Timeline Updates from

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  1. the Homepage

  2. Instant Updates (also known as Quick Updates)

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  3. Survey Responses for one or several people at once (also known as the Create Story page)

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  4. Import a spreadsheet of stories

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  5. Import stories using the API

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Stories are also called Updates or Posts.

How stories work

Progress on Makerble is stored in a story. A story contains:

Parts of a story

Mandatory or Optional

Anonymous Progress towards one or more goals and sub goals

Optional

Contacts tagged in progress towards one or more goals and sub goals

Optional

Attachments

Optional

Do you need to include it?

Manual Headcount i.e. when you record a number, e.g. if 10,000 people were reached by your radio broadcast

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No

Tagged to Contacts i.e. when you record that one or more specific contacts attended an event or gave a certain answer to a survey question

No

Attachments

No

Date Happened (backdating a story)

Optional

No

Text Description

Optional

No

Location

Optional

No

Date Posted

Mandatory (

Yes - but it is saved automatically

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Author

Mandatory (

Yes - but it is saved automatically

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Additional custom fields

Optional

e.g. Open Text, Multiple Choice, etc

No