Instant Updates (Quick Updates / Short Stories)
You can create a story using the Quick Update popup.
What you’ll learn on this page:
Where to do it
It’s available in these places. Click the links to find out how to use it on each page.
What it looks like
Each type of Progress Tracker (output or indicator) has its own style of Quick Update popup
Attendance Trackers and Achievement Trackers have the same design
The Quick Update Popup lets you create a story about a single metric (i.e. indicator or progress tracker).
You can either post a Quick Update from the Homepage or from a Progress Board.
Tour of the Quick Update popup
Component | What it does |
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States Filter | By default the Project Contacts box displays contacts in the Enrolled state. Use the filter to display contacts in the project’s Waiting List, Alumni or Declined state(s) |
Progress Tracker | The name and icon of the single Progress Tracker that progress is being logged towards in this story |
Progress from Tagged Contacts | This box displays the project’s contacts. You can log progress for one or more contacts by ticking their name. |
Add to the story | You can:
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Select Project | When viewing an Album Card, you can select any one of the projects within the album, as long as the project uses this Progress Tracker. |
Total progress logged in the story | This is the sum of the progress from tagged contacts and the anonymous progress |
Anonymous Progress | Enter the amount of anonymous progress that you want to log towards this Progress Tracker. E.g. the number of attendees whose names are not in your database as project contacts. |
Categorise the Anonymous Progress | Optionally disaggregate the anonymous progress number according to characteristics, e.g. demographic fields such as Age Range, Gender, Ethnicity, etc. |
Step-by-step instructions
All stories created using the Short Story popup (Quick Update popup) use the default survey of the project that the study is saved in; A project's default survey
Related articles
Create stories that contain progress towards several metrics using the Complete A Survey page or a Timeline Update.