Creating an Automated Subject Variable
To avoid the necessity of tracking and entering unique identifiers, you can create a Calculated Subject ID. To do this, create an Automatic Variable named SUBJECT that is calculated through the concatenation (linking together) of Today’s Date and Today’s Time:
- Create an Automatic Variable called TODAY, of type Today’s Date.
- Create an Automatic Variable called TIME, of type Current Time.
- Create an Automatic Variable called SUBJECT, of type String Expression.
- Enter the following into the Numeric Calculation/String Expression box:
CONCAT(TODAY,TIME)
This technique can also be used to concatenate other variables (e.g., month of birth, last 4 digits of SSN, gender).