Chronus provides a variety of field types for building your user forms and profile questions. This article provides a guidance and best practices for using the following field types:

Only dropdown selection fields can be used in the matching algorithm: Pick Multiple Answers, Pick One Answer and Ordered Options.

This is a simple single line text input. You can also allow users to enter multiple responses, each of which will appear as a separate field. Ideal for responses which do not exceed 60 characters, to collect information like Department, Phone Number, etc.

Example of a text field with only one response allowed:

This field type allows the user to enter several separate lines of text with the option to add more or delete lines. This is helpful for providing a list such as training modules completed or top mentorship priorities, etc.

This is a multiple line text input for users to enter longer entries that span multiple lines. Ideal for responses that exceed 60 characters, to collect information like About Me, Career Bio, etc.

Example:

We recommend providing additional guidance for users in the field description text box for fields such as "About Me", for example:

"Share some things about your personal and professional self such as your hobbies, passions and career goals. Limit your response to approximately 300 characters."

This field type allows you to create a predefined list of choices for users to select. There are two different ways to include the choices, individually or in bulk.

Individually:

Enter your first choice and click on the '+' icon to add the second choice. To insert an item in a specific location in the list, select the '+' icon next to the choice that you want your new item to appear underneath. You can also drag your fields into the desired location in the list by clicking and holding on the left bar of the field.

In bulk: Click on "Bulk add" to add your choices with commas separating each choice.

Optionally, you can also allow users to select "Other" and type in a different answer. To allow this option, include "Allow user to specify a different answer" at the end of your list of choices. You can also add a description of the question in "Field description."

Below is an example of what the end user experience will look like for a "Pick Multiple Answers" type of field:

Tip: Provide the list of choices in alphabetical order for users to easily identify the choices.

You can restrict end users to selecting just one choice from a multiple choice list. Use the field type "Pick One Answer". Below is an example of the end user experience for this field type.

Only multiple choice questions can be used in the matching algorithm.

This field type allows you to create a list of predefined choices for users to rank their choices in order of preference. You will need to specify the number of choices the user can select. For example, you may want the users to rank their top 3 preferences from a list of 15 options.

This view of the editor may help you visualize how to formulate this field:

These field types provide a pre-formatted set of fields to capture the user's work, academic experience, or works they have published.

Each one is an individual field type so you need to set up education, experience and publication fields individually. It’s not required to use all three of them; most programs use only Experience and Education. Certain academic programs may wish to utilize the Publications field type.

Additional Details:

This field type is used to capture users' Skype log-on credentials. This allows the user to initiate a Skype chat or video call from within the mentoring area.

Clicking the user's Skype name will initiate a call with them using the default version of Skype that is on their device. If the user cannot be reached, that user needs to check their privacy settings to ensure that incoming calls from people not on their call list are accepted.

The "Manager" field will ask the end user to enter the following details about their manager: first name, last name and email address. You can edit the manager field title as you can with any field, such as "Direct manager" or whatever aligns to your organization and program.

This field can only be created once at the global level and added to each program as needed. This means that the field title and description will be the same for all programs and cannot be altered.

This field type provides an auto-format location field for identifying user location (City, State, Country). As the user starts typing their city, the system will automatically display matches for the user to select from.

Note that this field can fill in full addresses. We highly recommend that you provide context to users using the Field description to ensure that your participant provide only the information needed in a particular format.

An example for the United States could be: Seattle, WA, United States

Tip: Using this field type maps out a demographic report of users which can be found under Reports.

This field can only be created once at the global level and added to each program as needed. This means that the field title and description will be the same for all programs and cannot be altered.

This field type allows users to upload a file such as a resume, essay or form. The user will simply see a "Choose File" button instead of an answer field.

Upload Rules: