Hello, I wanted to come on here to join the discussion on the new distribution experience, as my colleagues and I are unfortunately having a really hard time with it!
We use this feature as our only method of data collection for our ongoing clinical trial, and the new distribution experience has significantly lengthened the time needed to schedule questionnaires to go out.
The old version was much simpler to use and keep track of for the following reasons:
- the pop up window where the entire message and required fields are together (i.e., recipient, from, subject, message, advance options) is much more cohesive instead of these sections being separated on 10 different screens
- The pop up menus with drop down options in their dedicated sections (such as subject and message) helps avoid errors as opposed to these groups being under the same drop-down on the new version
- the drop downs are wide enough to read easily as well on the old version
- reminders are clustered with the original distribution, which helps avoid missing/double booking a reminder
- custom date for reminders (rather than number of days) with the calendar pop-up to select a date, which helps avoid incorrect scheduling
- it also wasn’t obvious where to add the link expiry which is important for us to control
If there is any way that the old version can remain as the default distribution setting that would be much appreciated, as we’re heavily dreading the amount of admin time this would add for us to schedule questionnaires for over 300 participants - thank you!
