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How to Create Paginated Sections for Long Forms

Application forms can differ greatly in length depending on the data sets that admin users are collecting. To this end, Nucleus provides functionality that helps to break down the forms into more manageable sections for entrant users and improves the navigation. Admin users can create Paginated Dividers which when enabled add an additional menu to the form. The menu can help users in several ways:

  • Each divider that is set to Paginated will have a separate entry in the menu that displays the divider header name
  • When an entrant clicks on one of the menu headers the screen will scroll to that section of the form
  • When an entrant clicks Review and Submit any errors will also be highlighted in the pagination menu allowing entrants to easily locate and update their answers

Note – pagination will need to be set up on a minimum of two divider questions in order to work effectively

How to create paginated dividers

When using Pagination, consider creating the page breaks at logical stages of the form eg. between different stages or groups of questions. If there are no such stages and your form consists of one lengthy set of questions, then consider using the Pagination to at least divide it into pages of approx. equal length. To create the dividers:

  1. Log into the Admin Interface
  2. Go to Actions>Question List
  3. Click Add to create a new Question or Edit to amend an existing one
  4. Set the question Type to Divider
  5. Under Question Parameters select Paginated
  6. Make sure the rest of the question settings are updated as required
  7. Click Save and Close
  8. Repeat steps 3-7 to set up multiple paginated dividers
  9. When you refresh the entry form you will see a new menu appear at the top of the screen

Note – due to screen size the paginated menu will only appear on screens that are a minimum width