Step 1. Enter all surveys in the Survey Builder, including any surveys that you want to trigger. Proceed to the Schedule tab.

Step 2. Create the basic schedule (i.e., the schedule that will serve as the base for the event triggering actions). In the example below, we see that the basic schedule is the Rolling schedule with a "Daily Survey" being scheduled in the morning every day from 9am-12pm.

Step 3. On the vertical bar on the left of the schedule, select the icon second from the top as seen below. This icon will take you to the event triggering options. Select the top icon at any time to go back to the basic schedule.

The following shows the home page for event triggering.

Step 4. To add a series of actions, select “Create event.” A pop up will appear in which you may enter the event name and the type of action. As can be seen below, the Maker can trigger an event based on (1) Survey Submission (i.e., when the participant sends a specific survey response; (2) Schedule Edit (i.e., when th participant changes the schedule of their surveys); (3) Exiting a Survey (i.e., participant exits a survey).

Step 5. The set up for a new series will be broken up into three main sections: the primary event, the conditions, and the resulting triggered action. 

1. The primary event is a "Survey Response" to the “Daily” survey. In other words, we want to monitor what a participant responds in the "Daily" survey in order to trigger the next steps.

                    2.  We are creating a "Condition" to trigger the action. The creates the specific conditions within the survey to trigger the                                     action.

The specific condition occurs when the participant selects "Yes" to the Question "Enter Yes to trigger event" as shown below.

After the specific condition is set, you can create the task that will be triggered. Note that you can create multiple tasks. In other words, when a participant responds in a particular way, you can create triggers for multiple actions, like schedule new surveys and delete surveys and send new notifications.

This will pull up the pop-up modal where you can choose to

1. "Adjust Schedule" (i.e., add surveys to their schedule, edit current schedule surveys, or even delete scheduled surveys). The schedule adjustment provides the most flexibility to the project as it allows you to add windows to the participant’s schedule based on a submission. It also allows for the removal of windows if the participant responds in a particular way. For projects that have surveys scheduled based on daily rhythms (e.g., a participant's bedtime), the edit action allows the researcher to move other surveys based on the participant’s new bed time. 
   

3. "Schedule Notification" (i.e., create new push notifications to send participants). Additional notifications can be triggered to send a custom message. This allows for custom reminders when a participant leaves a survey without completion or submission confirmations for completed surveys.
   

5. "Exit Survey" (i.e., for a participant out of a survey).
   

As noted above, you can create multiple "triggers" or "tasks" that will occur based on a single condition. This is very helpful when you want to schedule multiple different surveys based on one event.

3. In our example, we choose the task of "Adjust Schedule". We choose the triggered survey (here the name of the survey is "Event survey trigger"). Note that this survey has to be created in your normal survey creation tab. We then select the relevant options and parameters for when the survey window will occur.

Step 6. After setting up all event triggering series, select the top icon from the vertical menu on the left. Review basic schedule (note: no changes will be seen here) and proceed to the Distribution and Review tabs to complete project setup. 

2024 update: Schedule an email notification after the condition is met

You can schedule a notification to be sent to whatever email address you assigned based on your participant's response to a question. One example that this feature would be helpful is if your research participants are exhibiting signs of self-harm or suicidal behavior.

Some reasons why it could be helpful.

1. Duty of Care
2. Ethical Obligations
3. Intervention and Support
4. Legal Liability
   

To set this up, navigate to the event triggering function and choose 'Survey Submission'.

Proceed to configure your conditions.

Once the condition setup is complete, proceed to trigger a 'task' and select the 'Send Email' option.

Enter the email address where the notification will be sent.

Participant responding to the survey

When a participant responds to the survey and meets the condition you set, an email notification will be sent to your specified email address.

Triggering multiple surveys within a certain period of time

For eating disorders researchers, you may be interested in learning more about examining how it unfolds during the episode. For example, when someone is reporting that they are binge eating, you can immediately follow up with 5 surveys in the next 30 minutes.

Here is an example of how to set up a self-initiated drinking/eating episode for follow-up surveys: You can easily create triggers for 30 minutes, 60 minutes, etc., and set the follow-up surveys to follow that specific timing. 

Just create your self-initiated survey where you ask the question of how long their episode is (this is displayed only if they want to initiate the survey). E.g., they could indicate 30 minutes, 60 minutes, 90 minutes, etc.

Create specific event triggers for different timing choices (i.e., 30 minutes, 60 minutes, 90 minutes)

For alcohol researchers, you may be interested in assessing a drinking episode.  For example, when someone says that they are in a drinking episode, you can immediately follow up with 5 drinking surveys within the next hour, and you can use this method too.

This provides information on how to set up a trigger that can trigger multiple surveys within a period of time. (e.g., 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours, etc.)