Add Instance on Save

Add new instance to a record of an repeating instance by saving any field on any project. Additionaly, define piping fields to set the initial values of fields within the newly added instance.

Limitation: This module does not support longitudinal projects with multiple events. It will fail without an error message, since the module always uses the first event id in the project.

Setup

Install the module from REDCap module repository and enable over Control Center.

Configuration

Instrutions are sets of settings that will realize the instance addition.

Enabled: Check to enable the instruction.
Trigger Field: Field that triggers the instance addition. Only if trigger field value is not empty.
Matching Field: The field that defines the destination record id. Leave empty if record IDs of source and destination projects are equal.
Destination Project: Project ID of Destination Project.
Destination Form: Name of Destination Form. Field Piping: Use piping if you want to add instances with initial values piped from the triggering project. In case a Destination Field cannot be resolved within destination project, the whole instruction will become invalid and no instance will be added. Multiple Field Pipings per Instruction can be added:
Source Field: The field where the value should be piped from.
Destination Field: The target field where to value should be piped to. You can leave this empty if the destination field has the same name as the source field.
Instance ID Target: The field where to save information of currently added instance count/id.

Szenarios

Szenario 1: Add instance within same project

When "Destination Project" is same as the project wherein AIOS is triggered. Then a new instance of "Destination Form" will be created, if triggered from "Trigger Field" with a non-empty value - EACH TIME the form containing trigger_field is saved.

Szenario 2: Add instance to another project

When "Destination Project" is NOT same as the project wherein AIOS is triggered. Then a new instance of "Destination Form" will be created, if triggered from "Trigger Field" AND the matching record EXISTS - EACH TIME the form containing trigger_field is saved.

Developer Notice

Adjust constants to improve developer experience.

    //  Default
    const IS_HOOK_SIMU_ENABLED = false; # simulates a "save_record" hook on every page load
    const IS_DUMP_ENABLED = false;  # dump method that requires "symfony/var-dumper"
    const IS_ADDING_ENABLED = true; # save instances

Run $ composer install for formatted dumps.

Credits to Copy Data on Save module.

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