Creating your First Input App

Creating Input Form

Make sure you;re logged in and have selected a project

Make sure you're logged in by going to RealLifeData.net and click on "Editor" in the top right corner. Once you have signed in you will be redirected to the Project List. Select the project you'd like to create an app for.

Creating the form

  1. Go to the left sidebar and find "Input Forms", click it, then click "Add Input Form".
  2. Name your form "Test Form" then click "create".

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Adding Input

Adding Text Input

Once you've created and named your new input form, you are redirected to the input form editor.

  1. Click on the ▼Typed Input Fields on the left sidebar.
  2. Click and drag in the Text Input onto the middle of the phone.
  3. Once you've done that a box should appear around it. This box allows you to resize your text input, and lets you know when it is selected.
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  4. Now we need to name this element so it is easy to find later
    1. Click on ▼Field Configuration on the right sidebar.
    2. Find Name and enter in "Month"

Adding a Submit Button

  1. Click on ▼Buttons and find the Square button and click and drag it onto the phone.
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  2. Go back to ▼Field Configuration and name this field "Submit Button"

  3. If you look on the right sidebar you will see ▼ Button Extra Action, click on it.

  4. You will see a check box with the word "Submit" next to it, click this checkbox.

  5. You will also see a box with the word "Reset", click this checkbox as well.

Adding a Number Slider

  1. Click on ▼Numbers and find the Slider button

  2. Click and drag it onto the phone. Create new form

  3. Go to ▼Field Configuration and name this field "Revenue"

Preview Your App

Before we go download and use our App, lets test it to make sure it looks and works how we want.

  1. Click the Preview tab near the top of the screen.
  2. Next click on the text input we added in the middle of the screen.
  3. Enter in "January".
  4. Grab and drag the slider to any number.
  5. Now click your submit button.
    • Since we are in a test environement it will ask you if you're sure you'd like to submit, go ahead and click "confirm".

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Install and Use Your App for Collecting Data

Phones and Tablets

In this section we will be

  1. Downloading the RLD App Runner for Input
  2. Logging in and running your app on your device

Downloading the RLD App Runner for Input

Go to the Real Life Data Website. Click menu in the top right corner. A drop down will appear. Click on Install Input If you do not see menu in the top right corner, go ahead and click Input

This will take you to the app store for your device. Once you're there go ahead and install it.

Using the RLD Runner

Once you're done installing, open the app and login.

If this is your first input form you will see 1 App show up on your list of Input Forms. It should contain the name and any description you put in for your form. You will notice a small icon showing us what the form looks like.

Click on the 1 App you see.

As easy as that your app is now running on your phone. Enter in some text then click submit to test it.

Laptops, Personal Computers, and Macs.

Luckily RLD Apps can run on the web as well as in app. For Laptops we suggest running on the web.

First go to Go to the Real Life Data Website. Click Input* in the top right corner. Login and you will be redirected to a list of Inpu Forms. We have only created 1 so far so you should see a small icon of the input form we created. Click on that Icon.

And as easy as that you are now running your input app on your laptop or personaal computer! Enter in some text and click the submit button to test it out.

How to Look at My Data

There are a ton of reasons you might want to look at your data not using a graph, table, or dashboard:

How to check your data

Find and click Data Sets on the sidebar. You will be taken to an list containing one dataset named Default and the ability to Add a new Data Set To learn more about this screen check out Data Sets Section

Datasets and Default

Click on the default dataset. This is the dataset your input app automatically sends data to.

You will be redirected to the Dataset Explorer.

Once you're here find Dataset Fields on the sidebar and click on it.

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