lsgs / redcap-extended-reports

Provides various additional options to enhance REDCap's built-in reporting functionality.
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Feature Request: reshape by instrument, then instance #33

Open Akeem832 opened 3 days ago

Akeem832 commented 3 days ago

For repeating instruments, "column per instance" reshapes first by field, then by instance. For a concomitant medications form, this makes it hard to read the data by for each instance in a report: image

Could you consider adding the option to reshape by instrument, then instance?

lsgs commented 6 hours ago

I see what you mean there @Akeem832. Unfortunately, giving a field-then-instance column ordering option would not be an easy thing to implement, and I would worry about the layout/appearance with potentially long field labels repeated many times (although note that you can override them with a tag from v2.3.0).

The other thing I wonder is that if you want form fields together, and an easy way to scan across instances, then maybe the regular, non-reshaped, row-per-instance form is more appropriate?