Faces Rating Element
The Faces Rating Element lets users choose one of five facial expressions to quickly and easily represent how they're feeling. Within certain contexts, the Faces Rating Element can also be used for rating a particular experience, although a dedicated Star Rating Element has been designed specifically for this purpose. When a Faces Rating Element has been added to the form, at runtime, the following images will be displayed within the Element:
One of the faces can be configured to be pre-selected/to act as the default, as discussed below.
Once you have placed a Faces Rating Element on a page, you can edit the Element's properties to configure the Element for your requirements. Select the Element on the page to display its properties in the Properties Pane.
The following properties are available:
Element Version
The Element's version number, which may be (and is often) different to the installed version of the Digitise Forms software. For example, the version of the Element might be 1.5, but the version of the in-use/installed Digitise Forms software might be 2.0 etc.
Label
Allows you to change the text displayed in the label for this Element. You can change the default label to provide a more meaningful description or option for your users.
Visible and Disabled Properties
Show Label
Lets you show or hide the Element's label at form runtime. To hide the label so that the facial expressions only are displayed, deselect this option.
Size
Allows you to specify the size of the facial expressions. The options available are Small, Medium, and Large.
Layout
Allows you to specify the position/alignment of the facial expressions within the Element. The options available are Left, Right, Center, and Space Between. The first three options are fairly self-explanatory, but for Space Between, the facial expressions will be spread evenly across the full width of the Element, with an equal amount of white space between them, as shown below:
The properties in this section allow you to specify validation criteria for the Element.
Value
Contains the selected value for the Faces Rating Element. A number corresponding to one of the five available facial expressions can be chosen from a list to act as the default/pre-selected option, using the up and down arrows at the right-hand side of the property. The list contains the values 0 (for no facial expression selected), 1 (for the leftmost facial expression), 2, 3, 4, and 5 (for the right-most expression). Alternatively, you can specify an input mapping to read the default/pre-selected value in from a Datasource, but a facial expression won't be selected at runtime if the value isn't between 1 and 5 (inclusive).
For more information about mapping properties to data items in a Datasource see Data Tab Properties.
