To navigate to the clevr Editor, select the form you would like to edit from the Homescreen and click on any student’s record. Once the record is open, click on the pencil icon in the top left corner. This pencil icon will only be visible if your role has Editor access to the form.

Clicking the edit pencil icon will load a copy of the form into the Staging Area. After the form has been loading into the staging area the clevr editor will appear.

The Header image in the Editor is a placeholder to let the user know where the header will appear in the live form view. Click on the Toggle Header option to show/hide the placeholder within the Editor.

Toggling this option will add a comments section to the Options Accordion. Comments left within the staging database are not only viewable with the Editor open, not the live view.

The Preview function allows users to preview the form changes, without affecting the live environment.

The publish function moves all changes from the staging area to the live environment.

Save to Draft will save all form changes to the staging area without affecting the live environment. This allows Form Developers to save a copy of their work and return to it at a later time.

Discard changes will remove all changes for the form from the staging area and return the Form Developer to the live environment. All unpublished changes to the current form will be permanently removed.

The New Layout button will create a new blank layout for you to work with.

This option will only be viewable if your role has the Report Editor enabled. Click this button to load the Report Editor where printouts are edited and maintained.

Page properties can be found in the upper left side of the editor window – look for the small “P” icon. It is really small and easy to miss.

1. Copy Page – The Copy Page button is the first button on the right side of the Page Properties window. Clicking this button will create a copy of the current form and will allow you to choose which HTML reports to copy. All fields flagged for search, SIS, bulk data entry, etc will automatically be updated to the new Form ID number.

2. Pin/Unpin Window – The green push pin is used to pin the window open or automatically close it when the mouse if moved away. To close it after the first time opening it, you will have to click the pin to toggle it to automatically close.

3. Assign or Modify Initiatives

   • Description – This is where you change the name of the form. The form title label and form name on the Homescreen will be automatically updated with the value within this field.

   • Record Rollover – These settings control which options are present within the Record Rollover module for the form specified

     1. Include form in Record Rollover – This flags the form to appear within the new Record Rollover module and will lock the most recent record if a rollover is performed with no other options selected.

     2. Create New Record – This will create a blank new record in addition to locking the previous record.

     3. Copy Data to the New Record – This will make a clone of the most recent record in addition to locking the previous record. Select this option if you do not want the new record to be blank!

   • Tenant –  Users with access to multiple tenants can select which tenant to move the form to.

4. Editor History – Editor History displays the forms that have been edited with the current login.

5. Save – Hit the Save button to save the changes you’ve made within Page Properties.

The Options Accordion accordion is what you will work from 99% of the time that you are within the Editor. With it you can add, edit, delete, and move elements around in the form.

To open the Options Accordion, you will first need to click on an element on the screen. The information and values displayed in the Options Accordion are related to only the selected element. The element highlighted in blue is the currently selected element.

The next section in the accordion is called Base Types. A Base Type is the basic kind of element that can be added to a form. It includes things like text, Drop Down and tabs.

Details on setting up specific Base Types will be covered in the relevant sections of the How Do I page.

The next section within the Options Accordion is Custom Types. Custom Types are commonly used groupings of Base Types that clevr has created to save time so that Form Developers do not need to manually create everything when developing. Some Custom Types have been styled, and some are elements that are not included in the base types section of the Accordion.

Details on setting up specific Custom Types will be covered in the relevant sections of the How Do I page.

The Apply Rights section of the Accordion is where you can view and apply specialized rights for the element selected. Child elements take the rights of their parent element unless otherwise indicated. The parent container of a tab is the 97 container (not the 81), the parent container of the form is the 0. Access rights are quite complicated and have many layers. Please see the Specialized Access Rights section on this page for more details.

In the Spatials section of the Accordion you are able to view and change the X and Y coordinates of the selected element as well as view and change the height and width of the element. The X and Y axis spatials of the element selected are relative to it’s positioning within the parent container. Save the new Spatials by hitting enter on your keyboard.

Form Developers can leave comments on an element that is only viewable within the Editor view. You need to select the “Toggle Comments” button within the top Editor menu for this option to be available within the Accordion.

Click on an element then select the Comments section of the Accordion to enter a note. Once a comment has been entered it can not be removed unless the element it’s associated with is removed. Up to 100 characters can be used within a comment. When a comment has been left, you will be able to see the contents, date and time it was made, and the username of the person who authored it.

To move elements around in the editor using the arrow keys on the keyboard, you first need to select the element that you wish to move. The element highlighted in blue is the currently selected element.

You can use the up, down, left, and right arrow keys to move elements around in their current container. If you attempt to move the element outside of it’s parent container using the arrows keys, you will receive a warning message. Elements left outside of their parent containers may not be editable within the live view of the form.

Clicking and dragging is the only movement method that can be used to move items outside their parent containers.

First you will click and hold the item you want to move and then drag to a new location.

You will want to make sure that when you are clicking and holding the element that you are inside the selected element or you will resize instead of move.

The third way to move elements around in the clevr Editor is to use the Spatials section within the Options Accordion.

The first step is to select the element that you wish to adjust and then click on the Spatials section in the Options Accordion to open it. You can enter in the X and Y coordinates of the element as well as entering in values for the height and width. The X and Y axis spatials of the element selected are relative to it’s positioning within the parent container. The values that are entered are in pixels.

You save the value you have entered by clicking the enter key on the keyboard.

clevr supports multi-element drag and drop! When moving multiple elements, you can only use your mouse or the arrow keys.

Select the first element you’d like to reposition, then hit the CTRL button on your keyboard. You can then click on another element that you’d like to reposition. If you’ve followed the correct sequence, the perimeter of the second element will turn blue to indicate that it is also selected:

New Base and Custom Types can be added to your form using a few different methods.

First select the container you want to add the new element to. Next select the element you’d like to add from the Options Accordion. Double click it to add it to the currently selected container. This will add the new element to the top left corner of the container. From here you can move the element into position using one of the move methods shown in the Moving Elements section below.

This placement method is the one our team recommends, it gives you the greatest level of control over where the element is placed.

The other way elements can be placed is by clicking on the element within the Options Accordion and dragging it into position. The container where you are placing the new element does not need to be the selected container, but you should ensure the entirety of the new element is contained within the container you’re added it to before dropping it into position.

From here you can move the element into position using one of the move methods shown in the Moving Elements section below.

Attributes can be added to elements to flag them for modules within clevr or do add functionality to them. Attributes can be applied to from the Options Table of the Options Accordion. Previously added attributes will be viewable when you click on any element:

Each attribute has two requirements – the attribute itself which is added on the left, then the value which is added on the right. The attribute side on the left contains auto-populating functionality to help reduce errors – many attributes are case sensitive. Applying specific attributes will be covered in detail in the relevant sections of the “How Do I” page.