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Supported Check Code Commands and Functions

The Web Survey tool does not support all Check Code commands and functions available in the Form Designer tool. See below for a list of supported and non-supported commands and functions.

Supported Commands:

  • Assign
  • Clear
  • Dialog
    • Simple Dialog only
  • Enable / Disable
  • Go To
  • Hide / Unhide
  • Highlight / Unhighlight
  • If / Then / Else
  • Set-Required / Set-Not-Required

Non-Supported Commands:

  • AutoSearch
  • Define
  • Dialog
    • Get Variable Dialog
    • List of Values Dialog
  • Execute
  • Geocode
  • Help
  • NewRecord
  • Quit

Supported Functions:

  • ABS
  • Cos
  • Day
  • Days
  • Hour
  • Hours
  • LN
  • LOG
  • Minute
  • Minutes
  • Month
  • Months
  • Round
  • Second
  • Seconds
  • Sin
  • StrLen
  • SystemDate
  • SystemTime
  • Tan
  • UpperCase
  • Year
  • Years

Non-Supported Functions:

  • CurrentUser
  • EpiWeek
  • Exists
  • Exp
  • FileDate
  • FindText
  • Format
  • Linebreak
  • NumToDate
  • NumToTime
  • PFROMZ
  • RecordCount
  • Rnd
  • Step
  • Substring
  • Trunc
  • TxtToDate
  • TxtToNum
  • ZSCORE

Although the non-supported commands and functions do not work when entering data into the web survey, they are still compatible with Check Code on the downloaded version of the survey. After downloading the web survey responses, you can run these commands and functions as normal, or you can use the Epi Info™ 7 Analysis tool to perform the necessary operation.

Page last reviewed: September 16, 2022, 12:00 pm
Content source: Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology