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Introduction

• Custom Lists allow users to manage what appears in certain drop-down lists in event forms, workflow forms and in the Risk Register. 

• There are two types of custom list; Custom List and Enhanced Custom List.

Custom List

• Sometimes referred to as a ‘Basic Custom List.’  These custom lists are straightforward and simply lists of data. This is typically a list of names, for example a list of your Service Users, or Medicines, etc. 

• Items on a custom list can be restricted to specific locations.  This is particularly useful for event reporting, where a large custom list can be automatically filtered to show the list items related to the location of the event itself.

• The empty list is created by Radar Healthcare Support, after which you can populate the list yourself. 

• The most common example of using Custom Lists would be to record your Service Users in Radar Healthcare - they could then appear in a drop down in your events (please refer to the Form Editor Elements: Selects guide for information on how to pull this into your form)

• Any changes applied to the custom lists only appear in new events and forms and will not pull through to previously reported events.

Enhanced Custom List

•  Enhanced Custom List builds on the concept of a custom list of data and expands on the information you can contain for each item on your list.

• For example, instead of a straightforward list of service usernames, an enhanced list might include additional helpful information such as Date of Birth, Next of Kin details etc. 

• For more information, please read our guide exploring this functionality further: More information can be found in An Introduction to Enhanced Custom Lists.