This is a place where we happen to be stuck right now in the design of a new follow up form. We want to collect ZIP Codes served and number of patients in each ZIP code. If you have a work around for this (rather than a REALLY long f/u form) we'd appreciate it. Will X-post in Compass.

Building on to this idea. It would be nice if there were a bullet points question type so that applicants could complete a list that's much easier for our reviewers to read vs a large text area. There are a lot of text area questions we ask that would make it much easier to read if it was bullet points such as listing the additional scholarships/grants/funding that applicants are receiving, leadership activities, work experience, college schedule, etc.

We include instructions on how to give this information, but any way to make answers more streamlined for our reviewers is a win because then they can compare apples to apples vs apples to oranges.

I would like to second Gina's comment. This feature would help resolve our problems with collecting demographic information.

This would be really helpful when collecting demographic information too!

The use of tables in scholarship applications would be MOST welcomed—the activities sections in scholarship applications become very cumbersome with the current limiting layout.

I agree, this is a significant deficit in my opinion.

We very much need this feature, but it looks like there hasn't been any progress in the last two years. Any updates?

I would use this in pretty much everything... great to have them list other funding sources for GLM and SLM just for starters. Also multiple project bids for capital requests.

This would be an awesome option! I could implement it in every one of my processes.

This functionality would be extremely useful for us, both for budgets and work plans.

I'd like to be able to have a grantees report on multiple aspects of the same thing. For example, if they are providing services in an area of law (say family) and they are providing services at multiple service levels (say, brief advice and direct representation), then it would be great to have columns with the service types and rows with the areas of law so I could get data on all service types for one area of law. Currently I can ask about service types or about areas of law, but to combine them would require asking multiple questions and having grantees fill out several integer questions. A grid would make that much easier.

This would be very helpful for budgets (both in the application and in follow-up reports to say how the money was actually spent), as well as for reporting grant outcomes and outputs.

The ability to insert a table into a grant agreement and edit it for data collection purposes would be extremely helpful. Or to keep in line with the CRM-type (db) functionality mentioned by Chris below, it could be a link that takes us to a separate grantee organization tab or grant profile tab (db data collection GUI) at which the funder enters the grant agreement planned outcome descriptions and targets, and as part of the follow-up/reporting the grantee enters their outcome results. The data could then be printed out in report format or downloaded as needed. Thank you.

This would be an amazing tool!

Hi Charise,
Thanks for taking time to add this suggestion. It is one we've heard before from a handful of clients, and we've discussed it internally a bit as well. On one hand, it doesn't seem like it'd be that hard to do. However, it has some significant and complex implications for everything from building forms to validating inputs to storing data to reporting.

Keeping that in mind, we've been focused on more features that are either less complex or benefit a pretty broad cross-section of our user base. And given what we have heard, things like email merge, more flexibility in collecting user and organization data, more CRM type functionality, more customized views of data, etc., continue to be higher priorities for more of our users.

All that said, this suggestion is something that I'm sure we'll continue to track.

Thanks again for the suggestion,
-chris

When creating an application or follow up, it would be great to have a table or grid type of option (rather than a plain text box). Something that would let us put in headers and then allow grantees to insert responses.For an example, on payment requests involving multiple entries, grantees would be able to fill in a table listing the expenses and amounts in one grid that would then be part of the packet as a standardized method for itemizing their expenses. Thanks for considering it.