START Block

What's New?

As of March 5, 2025

Scheduled Assessment Creation

This feature enables you to automatically generate assessments on a set schedule, ensuring Workflows and business processes are completed on time without manual effort.

An example might be sending out your monthly or annual Conflict of Interest Forms to your Director-level roles at your company.

 

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What is the START block?
What are the Unique Features of the START block?
What are the common instructions or guidance included in the START block?
How to customise your Start block
Scheduled Assessment Creation

 

What is the START block?

The START block is the first block that appears in the App Studio by default. It acts as the first page your end user sees at the beginning of an App to display instructions and guidance for moving. All Apps MUST start with a START block.

 

What are the Unique Features of the START block?

1. START blocks cannot be deleted
2. START blocks can have arrows branch from it, but cannot have arrows connect to it

 

What are the common instructions or guidance included in the START block?

Common instructions and guidance typically include (but not limited to):

• Brief description of App
• Specific instructions (workflow, e-sign etc)
• Estimated time to complete App

See example below:

 

How to customise your Start block

1. In the App Studio, click onto the START block to open the Property Editor (right panel)
   
   
2. Add a Header for the START block
   
   Note: It is best practice to use the App name here. See screenshot below
   
   
   
   
   
3. Add text inside the textbox (i.e. rich text editor) and format accordingly.

Formatting features include:

• Typographical emphasis (Bold, italics, underline)
• Font size
• Bullet and number lists
• Text alignment
• Hyperlinking (URLs and mailto links)

Note: If the textbox is too small, you can expand it by clicking onto the expand icon

When expanded, the textbox will appear as follows:

 

Scheduled Assessment Creation

1. Open App Studio of the app where you want assessments to be automatically created.
2. Locate the START block and click to edit its properties.
3. Set the frequency for assessment creation:
   • Choose from Every hour, Every day, Every week, or Every month in the Frequency dropdown.
   • Specify the exact time in the Time field.
4. Select the correct timezone to ensure assessments are generated at the right time for you or your team, depending on who will be handling the assessments.