Adding a new Register Field

Registers are the primary method for collecting monitoring data in Upshot. They enable organisations to record which attendees were present at each session. In addition to attendance, Registers can capture further details about each attendee with built-in default fields, such as their duration of attendance, volunteer status, payments made and qualitative notes.

If an organisation wants to collect additional data about attendees at their sessions, it is possible for System Admins to create custom fields to add to the register page.

Adding new Register Fields can be done at any point.

• Go to Admin > Register fields
• On the right-hand side under Tools click Add a new register field
• Here the Label is the title of this field, and will be displayed as the header of the column when the register field is added to a Project's the Register Layout, e.g. 'Arrived on time?'
• Type of field - There are a number of options for selecting how the column is configured, depending on the options that could be entered into the register field. Text area (free text, unvalidated), Single choice dropdown, Multiple-choice field, Tickbox, Date.
• Once you have selected your options click Add

Once you have created one or more custom Register Fields these can then be added to your Projects. Custom Register Fields need to be added to each Project in turn, to allow for different Projects to have different register requirements. This can be done by going to the General Tab within a Project and then to the Register Layout page.