Fulcrum

It is a lightweight web application, which utilizes the Fulcrum API for viewing, creating, modifying and downloading Classification Sets.

What is the Classification Set Utility?

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Learn about all the different types of Fields used in Fulcrum.

Field Types And App Designer Settings

Types of Fields that Fulcrum has available.

What field types does Fulcrum support?

Learn how to customize reports with the report builder.

How do I customize a PDF report?

Nesting fields inside sections or repeatable sections.

How do I nest a field in a section?

Explaining the function of values in Fulcrum.

What are values for choice field types?

Limitations on the amount of text that can be entered into a field.

How many characters can be entered into a field?

Understanding the differences between repeatable sections and record link fields.

What is the difference between a repeatable section and a record link field?

General

What is the app name on the app designer?

What the description box is used for in Fulcrum.

What is the description box on the app designer page do?

Understanding how title field settings work in Fulcrum.

What is a title field?

Using status fields to change data symbology and track workflow progress for field activity.

What is a status field?

A guide to assist with setting up a status field in your app. (Basic)

Setting up and using a status field

Is there a location field in Fulcrum?

Details on the project metadata field in a record.

What is the project field in the record metadata?

App Designer and System Fields

Understanding the various timestamps for creating and editing data in Fulcrum.

How do timestamps work for collected and edited data?

Describing the location, created location, and updated location values.

What are the various location data values in the record metadata?

How the duration data is captured and what it means.

What is the duration data in the record metadata section?

Details on the assigned field for a record.

What is the assigned field in the metadata section of a record?

Details on what information is stored in the source field in the metadata section of a record.

What data is contained within the source data field?

Metadata Fields

What sort of data can a text field capture and how does it work.

What is a text field?

How a yes/no field functions within Fulcrum.

What is a Yes/No field?

Details on single choice fields in Fulcrum.

What are single choice fields?

Details on multiple choice fields in Fulcrum.

What are multiple choice fields

How do classification sets work?

What are label fields used for?

How do sections work?

How to set up 'parent/child' data relationships using repeatable sections in Fulcrum templates.

What are repeatable sections?

What are photo fields?

Capturing video with GPS tracks in Fulcrum.

What is SpatialVideo and how does it work?

Capturing audio files with GPS tracks in Fulcrum.

What is an audio field and how does it work?

Capturing barcodes and QR codes in Fulcrum.

How do I scan barcodes or QR codes?

Understanding how signature fields work to collect signatures in the field for reporting.

How do signature fields work?

Understand how to use hyperlink fields in Fulcrum to reference webpages and files online, from your mobile device.

How do hyperlink fields work?

Captureing addresses and having them auto-populate on the mobie apps.

How do Address fields work?

Understanding the Record Link field type.

What is record linking?

User Defined Fields

Defining what labels are for the field options popup in the app designer.

What are labels for fields?

Learn more about the field description settings in your Fulcrum app.

What are field descriptions used for?

Describing what default value in the field options popup does.

What is default value for a field?

Explaining the function of data names in Fulcrum apps.

What are data names on form fields?

What the required option in the field popup does when enabled.

What does the required checkbox option mean?

Describing the hidden option in the field options popup on the app designer.

What does the hidden checkbox option do?

Describing the read-only option in the field options popup on the app designer.

What does the read-only checkbox option do?

Settings up a field to default to the last value that was entered.

What does "Default To Previous Value" do?

What are the options for numeric fields?

Understanding time field types and options in Fulcrum.

What are the options for time fields?

What are the options for Fulcrum date fields?

What does the allow other option of single or multiple choice fields do?

How inline choice options can be entered for choice fields.

What are inline choice options for choice fields?

Describing the differences between the two view types that sections have.

What is the difference between an inline and drill down section?

How to set up the record title for child records that are made from repeatable sections.

How do I set the title for the child records that repeatable sections make?