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Add progress bar

How about adding a progress bar to the top of the screen on the application forms so that applicants can see their progress? ...like in online surveys. I think this would be helpful. This could also be included when creating a new account. Personally, I feel more motivated to complete online forms when I see progress being made.

Idea posted May 3, 2013 by Erin Baird, Allegany Franciscan Ministries

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  • Chris Dahl commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi Erin,

    I'd agree on the "cool" factor ... but given other priorities, this suggestion is probably pretty low on the list. You did mention paging ... and while I'm not sure that for most evaluations that would be useful, I can see on some longer forms where it would be.

    Thanks for the followup details

    posted July 17, 2013 by Chris Dahl, Foundant Technologies

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    Chris-

    This is by no means a game changer but I thought it was a cool feature. I saw the status bar on another software product. I have not seen this particular product for a while so I would need to go back to and check it out to see how it works. Overall, I assume yes it would show more progress for each question they answer. I am guessing this would involve paging the forms...not sure everyone wants to do that. Just thinking of ideas that make the forms more user friendly.

    posted July 3, 2013 by Erin Baird, Allegany Franciscan Ministries

  • Chris Dahl commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi Erin,

    Thanks for the suggestion. I'm not exactly sure how you envision it working ... would it show more "progress" for each question they answer?

    One of the immediate challenges it that it wouldn't really be visible much on a longer form (given the number of questions), unless we had it kind of overlay the page, which some people find a bit annoying.

    If we move to more of a paging format ... where each form can be broken into pages ... it might be easier to implement. Most of the surveys I've used have been across multiple pages where the questions for each page display in a single window (with no scrolling) and that makes it a bit easier.

    I'll keep this in mind as we move forward, but it's definitely a longer term enhancement.

    posted June 12, 2013 by Chris Dahl, Foundant Technologies