When designing your Form, you'll be specifying the type of each field. The type affects not only how the information is requested during Form filling, but also where the information goes after the Form has been filled. (and, for filling on the iPad app, where the information comes from to pre-fill the Form)

Apart from custom patient fields, we support a number of standard patient fields. These are fields that know exactly where to go on the patient record. Most of these fields are static — once you add them to your Form there aren't too many customisation options. But some are dynamic.

Dynamic standard patient fields are fields that still update the "standard" part of the patient record (i.e. not anything you've added as a custom patient field). They're dynamic because we allow them to be customised further. The dynamic standard patient fields we support are:

The Automated reminder type field synchronises with the field of the same name on the patient record in Cliniko. The standard options are None, SMS, Email and SMS & Email.

If you're one of the clinics that doesn't use SMS reminders, you might not want to allow the Automated reminder type field to allow any option containing SMS. Here's how you'd remove these in the Editor:

The dynamic standard patient fields similar to this one (in that they can have their standard options enabled or disabled) are:

The Sex field allows you to define a number of options from which the patient can choose their sex. In addition to the standard options you can setup in your Cliniko account, you can also specify one that's not in your standard list inside Cliniko:

The Sex field type in Finger-Ink allows this behaviour as well. Here's the Sex field type configured on a Form to allow the patient to specify:

If you'd like the patient to be able to enter anything they'd like into the Sex field, then follow along with this video:

The dynamic standard patient fields similar to this one (in that they can have another option added which allows anything to be input) are: