Add Media To Questionnaires To Create Visual Training Exercises and Certifications

Add Media To Questionnaires To Create Visual Training Exercises and Certifications

Questionnaires are a great way within Dynamics AX to gather information, but you are not just limited to using text in them.  There is an option that also allows you to associate media files with individual questions that are showed in conjunction with the questions.

This allows you to create visual training and testing Questionnaires that you can assign to employees to complete if you have training and certification requirements.

How To Do It…

Select the Questions menu item from within the Design subfolder of the Questionnaires folder in the Common group of the Home area page.

When the Questions maintenance form is displayed, click on the New button in the menu bar to create a new question.

Set the Input Type to Checkbox, and give your question some Instructions and also the Text prompt.  Then click on the Media button in the menu bar.

When the Media dialog box is displayed, click on the Add button in the menu bar to associate some media to the question.

When the Create/update medium dialog box is displayed, specify the Filename and also the Width and Height and then click on the OK button.

When you return to the Media dialog box you should be able to see the animation that you added.

Repeat the addition of the Question, but this time, specify the question that you want associated with the video.

When you have finished, just click on the Close button to exit from the form.

Next, select the Questionnaires menu item from within the Design subfolder of the Questionnaires folder in the Common group of the Home area page.

When the Questionnaires maintenance form is displayed, click on the New button in the menu bar to create a new questionnaire.

Assign your Questionnaire a name and a Description and then click on the Questions button on the menu bar, and select the Questions menu item.

When the Questions maintenance form is displayed, click the New button in the menu bar to add a new question.

From the Question dropdown, select the first question that you just added.

Repeat the process again for the second question, and then click the close button to exit from the form, and return to the main menu.

How It Works…

To test the Questionnaire, select the Complete a questionnaires menu item from within the Questionnaires folder in the Common group of the Home area page.

Select the Questionnaire and click the Start button in the menu bar.

You will now see the first question, along with the animated media.  After you have viewed it, just click on the Forward button to move to the next question.

Now you have to answer the test question, and you can click End when you are finished.