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How to build templates for DCSP

Outlined below are methods for creating the different templates needed for clinical safety documentation.

How to build an entry template

  • Entries are instances of items that you wish to log. For example a hazard or incident.
  • Place in 'CS-documents/templates/[entry name]-template.md'
  • Do not use front matter (material between two treble hashes ('---'))
  • Headings can use any number hashtags (#)
  • The first heading with the word 'name' (case insensitive) in it will be used as the field name
  • Under the heading, the following attributes can be used to change the field type:
    • [select] - simple, single selection field on the building site
    • [multiselect] - a multiselect field on building site
    • [calculate] - calculates a view result based on other 'labelled' fields (discussed in more detail below).
    • [any_other_values] - used as labels for [calculate] to use.
    • no labels - a simple textarea is used on the building site
  • Numbering should be done as 1 - Line wording 2 - More line wording
  • Do not use 1. 2. 3. as this leads to automatically line numbering that you will not want when the markdown files are eventually built.
  • Anything after a semi colon will be removed from the selection field during editing, but will be available for the user to see if they click on the 'More info' help text.
  • You can put placeholders (eg {{ a_placeholder }}) in both the templates and the entry instances.

How are calculate fields calculated

Calculated fields use the values of other 'laballed' fields. These 'labelled' fields need to be either a select or multiple select field with a label on the line (under the title) as the select / multiselect attribute: eg

[select] [label_name]

The calculated field needs the attribute [calculate] under the heading and then the labels it is to monitor there after, eg:

[calculate] [labelA] [labelB]

The calculated field should then have a number list (again with "1 -" rather than "1."). At the end of each numbered line, there should be a list of combinations of the monitored fields to match against, a hypthen and then the number of the item in that monitored field, eg:

1 - First item [labelA1-labelB1, labelA2-labelB1]
2 - Second item [labelA3-labelB1, labelA8-labelB1]
etc...

A javascript script will run each time one of the monitored-labelled field changes and if it matches the values in the monitored fields, it will update the calculated field.

CSS

You need a icon-small and a icon-large CSS definition for the icons used in the entries. icon-small is used for the summary pages and icon-large is used for the individual entries.

Hazard summary page

This is a fairly complicated page, and it would be best to follow examples (need a link).

Numbering

For lists that are used in selection fields, number lines must be of the form:

number - text

eg

1 - First selection option 2 - Second selection option

Hazard icons

Incident templates

Hazard types

Officer template

Complience sign off template

Documents.yml

Under entries add the order you want entries to appear on the Ux. If not supplied then these are ordered randomly.