You should avoid trying to replicate the form as it appears on paper or in a Microsoft Word document because this usually doesn’t produce a dynamic template.
On paper forms, designers often display data in tables that have split columns on some rows but not on others.
You can record several bits of information in one field. However, this approach won’t work in Mosaic, so you need to implement it differently.
Mosaic can dynamically add additional sets of information and therefore doesn’t need to display several sets of fields that may remain blank or have insufficient numbers.
If paper forms don’t have field labels, you need to add a label.
You should change the item types to make the best use of Mosaic functionality. For instance, you could change radio buttons on a paper form to a dropdown list in Mosaic.
The following screenshot illustrates these points:
You can make each field a column in a repeating table, which allows for the addition of any number of children.
You should split the field “Child’s name/s and DoBs” into two fields: “Name” and “DoB” because they are different data types.
You can prepopulate all the fields from the database.
If the template has more than one child as its subject, it can be a group template.
