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Video Tutorials

This page is your starting place for Video Tutorials.
These videos will raise awareness for new or specific functionality and we hope they can help you when learning to use this functionality.

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If you want to have a closer look at the sample that is used in the video, you can find the sources that were used - and for some videos an extended example as well - in the Samples that are shipped with the system.

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Video tutorial: Using the Blaise 5 apps

This video tutorial explains how you can set up surveys in the Android app, iOS app and DepApp. It covers the settings in the server park, the settings for the users of the app and the installation of surveys in the apps, as well as how you can download pre-filled data to the device, or upload it after you are done. It also shows how you can remove the data or a survey when it is no longer needed.

Feedback is appreciated, as usual, so feel free to leave a comment on YouTube or facebook if you can.

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Video tutorial: Converting your Blaise 4 project to Blaise 5

This video tutorial explains how you can convert your Blaise 4 sources to Blaise 5 using the Source converter that is shipped with the system. It goes on to show how you can convert your data from Blaise 4 to Blaise 5 and back using Manipula. Note that this video does not concern itself with the layout of your questionnaires. For that, please check one of our other videos.

Feedback is appreciated, as usual, so feel free to leave a comment on YouTube or Facebook if you can.

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Video tutorial: Manipula Dialogs - Changing the Default

This video tutorial is the fourth and last of several videos about Manipula Dialogs (Maniplus in Blaise 4). It describes how to make changes to the default templates that are used to build up a Dialog. You can change these to match your house style for instance. It assumes some knowlegde about the Resource Editor.

We'd appreciate your feedback, so feel free to leave a comment on YouTube or facebook if you can.

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Video tutorial: Manipula Dialogs - Conversion

This video tutorial is the third of several videos about Manipula Dialogs (Maniplus in Blaise 4). It describes how you can convert Blaise 4 Maniplus dialogs to Blaise 5 Manipula Dialogs and how to change the layout of those Dialogs.

We'd appreciate your feedback, so feel free to leave a comment on YouTube if you can.

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Video tutorial: Manipula Dialogs - Basic II - Lookup

This video tutorial is the second of several videos about Manipula Dialogs (Maniplus in Blaise 4). It explains how you can use a lookup and an EDIT in Manipula Dialogs, but some knowlegde of the Blaise 4 Maniplus syntax is expected. In this video we'll explain how to create a relative .bdix and how to customize your lookup Dialog using the default options.

We would love your feedback, so feel free to leave a comment on YouTube if you can.

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Video tutorial: Manipula Dialogs - Basic I

This video tutorial is the first of several videos about Manipula Dialogs (in Blaise 4 this was called Maniplus). It explains the basics of Manipula Dialogs, but some knowlegde of the Blaise 4 Maniplus syntax is expected. In this video we'll explain a bit about the new layout and how you can add a procedure to a button.

We would love your feedback, so feel free to leave a comment on YouTube if you can.

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Video tutorial: Runtime Shortcuts

Our new video tutorial about runtime shortcuts has just been released. This is functionality that is not yet well known, but which might be helpful for your surveys. The video explains what they are and when to use them. It also shows how you can create your own in 2 easy steps.

We would love your feedback, so don't be shy and leave a comment on YouTube if you can.

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Video tutorial: Session Data

Our new video tutorial has just been released. It explains a bit about what session data is, how it works and what you can do with it. You get it for free when you use a primary key in your data model.

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Video Tutorial - Layout Language

Our second video tutorial has just been released. It gives a preview of the Layout Language in Blaise 5. This functionality will be available in the official release of Blaise 5.3.0 and we wanted to show how it works.

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Video Tutorial - Edit Mask

In order to offer yet another platform for help/self-training and to raise awareness for new functionality, we have made our first video tutorial.
This first video is about edit masks. The edit mask functionality has been available since the release of Blaise 5.2.5 and we wanted to show how it works.

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