Modifying Participant Targets

 The modify targets feature allows you to customize or update the goal for each participant!

Examples of use cases

1. Participant is consistently not meeting 10,000 step count goal --> update goal to 9,000 steps 
2. Participant's medication dosage increases from 2 to 3 --> change their daily medication target to be 3x daily, instead of 2x daily
   
   

NOTE Modifying targets is available for basic and dependent target generators only! This means that complex targets, like step-wise weight loss targets or weekly increasing step count targets, cannot be edited. 

• If you don't see the 'Modify Targets' button in the participant's target tab inside the profile, it is not eligible to be modified

•  Tip! A good rule of thumb- if the target generator was custom developed for your project, chances are it cannot be modified on the per participant level. 

Once you have established that your basic target is eligible for modification, you are ready to update the participant's goal! 

• Example: We want to update the participant's cathing dose from 3x/day to 4x/day

1. Navigate to the participant's profile and click on the 'Targets' tab
   
   
   
   
2. Click the 'Modify Targets' button 
   
   
   
   
3. Select the date that the new target should be implemented.  This can be a past, current, or future date. For our example, I will choose to start the new target today. 
   
   
   1. As noted by the *, if you change a target for a past date, you may need to reapply feedback for any encounters looking at the target.  You can do this in 'Filter Encounters' under the 'Manage Participants' tab
      
      
      
      
4. Then select the value of the new target. In this example, we want to change the cathing dose from 3 to 4, so enter in a value of '4' and click the 'Submit' button. 
   
   
   
5. Since we indicated that the target should change today, you will immediately see that today's target (5/10) and all dates going forward have been updated to '4'. 
   
   
   1.  Tip! You can quickly see if a target has been modified by the red text on the day that the new target was set to be implemented
      
      
      
      
6. Hooray! You have now successfully changed the participant's cathing dosage target from 3x/day to 4x/day! 

Modification tips and tricks!

1. If you try to edit a target for a date prior to the first date of the target --> ERROR
   1. Example: 01/10/18 is before the target starts on 02/22/18
      
      
      
2. If you try to edit a target for a date after the last target --> ERROR
   
   
3. The value field contains a negative number or symbol --> ERROR
   1. Example: A value of '-5' will not save