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Granular Consent management
This guide is aimed to walk you through the process of adding a Consent activity to your project and editing already created Consent activities.
Choose the button New that is located in the top right corner of the Engage window and select Consent from the Blank activity dropdown menu to build your consent activity from scratch.
You can also select Template to explore the Engage Template Library and start from our ready-made consent activity.
Read more about the Engage Template Library.
After creating the consent activity via the Blank activity option, a draft of the activity will immediately be created in the project. Find out more about the Engage Auto-Save and Publishing Changes.
Creating a Consent activity

1. Title

Provide a descriptive title for the consent activity along with a brief description of your initiative in this section.
All language variants filled in the first section necessitate the addition of a consent document in the second section.
AI assistant for efficiency, time saving and clarity
Ask the AI assistant to boost the efficiency of activity text creation. This Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool will serve as an aid in crafting a compelling activity title and description effortlessly and maximizing the impact of your initiatives with clear and well-formulated information.

To utilize the AI assistant's help:
  • Enter either the Activity title or the Activity description.
  • Select Insert to use the AI-generated content or Discard if you don't want to apply it.
Be aware of limitations using AI text generation.

AI text generation can boost productivity, but it's important to recognize its limitations. Always review and edit AI-generated content to ensure accuracy. Learn more in our guide on Working with AI.
  • Allow the AI assistant to also generate the Consent activity title and short description in other languages added in your organisation. AI will generate the title and description based on the original prompt you entered.
2. Document
Enter the terms and conditions of participation in the initiative in all language variants populated in the first section of the Consent activity creation.
Does your Consent activity look different?

If your Consent activity has been developed with adding a ready PDF file in the section Consent Document, proceed to the section Consent management.
Paste a ready text from a Word or PDF document in the Text editor if available.

The Text editor within the Document section recognizes pre-developed and formatted text and will recognize formatting already added if a ready-made text is pasted into the editor window, simplifying the process with minimal manual adjustments.
The consent document Text editor allows to:
  • Enter text and apply the necessary text formatting options.
You have to click inside the Document box to activate the text editor tools.
  • Utilize additional text formatting options within the power of the HTML Editor.
  • Preview the PDF to review the result.
Download and adjust the informed consent templates in English, Latvian and Russian for your specific use case.
3. Consent
This section offers the flexibility to add granularity to the Consent activity by preparing multiple separate positions to request participants' consent as required by the initiative.

The "Consent" section defaults to one consent position and the supported consent question type is Boolean, allowing the participant to choose from two pre-defined options to either confirm or reject consent.
The default consent position, "By checking this box, I confirm that I have read the Terms and I am willing to participate," is included in all Consent activities with default settings:
- Required question,
- Two answer options - Accept and Reject.

Adjust default settings as needed by applying General and Conditions settings. Read more about Activity element settings.
Add as many consent questions and adjust them as needed.
PDF file uploads will continue to be supported for Consent activities created before February 2024.

For all Consent activities generated prior to February 2024 using a PDF upload for the consent document, technical support will remain unchanged. However, starting from February 2024, new Consent activities will default to incorporating the consent document via a Rich Text Editor and offering the option to add granularity positions.
Participants will not be able to complete a Consent activity and onboard the project if a mandatory consent question is rejected.

See how the Consent activity flow will look from the participants' side in case a mandatory consent question is rejected in the description Consent.
4. Settings
This section facilitates choosing the signing method and visibility of the Consent activity.
How participants will sign this document?
Select the preferred method for participants to sign the Consent activity.

a) Engage signature: Participants must select the checkbox "By checking this box, I confirm that I have read the Terms and I am willing to participate" to confirm their consent.

b) Qualified digital signature (eParaksts and, if enabled, Smart-ID): Participants will be able to confirm their consent choice with the site eParaksts or their Smart-ID identity.
The "Engage signature" consent method is available to all Engage participants. However, participants must be authenticated on Engage with their eParaksts or Smart-ID identity to be able to complete a consent activity that has the the signature method "Qualified digital signature" enabled.
Smart-ID authentication and consent options are available through a separate agreement.

To enable Smart-ID authentication and consent for your projects, please contact us at support@longenesis.com.
Where this activity will appear?
This setting empowers the administrator to control the visibility of the Consent activity, choosing whether it will be Visible on the project timeline or accessible Only via link.
Learn more about Project activity settings.
Edit consent

The Consent activity can be edited by selecting the button Edit in the top-right corner of the activity card.
Edit consent view will next be opened. This view allows to:
  • update the sections Title and Short description for all language variants of the activity,
  • update the sections Document and Consent if no participant submissions have been received in the activity yet,
  • alter the permission Settings as required.
Consent documents cannot be modified once at least one participant has provided consent in the published Consent activity.

To ensure transparency, immutability of information and protection of participants, consent documents cannot be changed after at least one participant has given his or her consent in the published Consent activity. For that reason, cases where the sections Document and/or Consent require changes after the activity is already in use call for a completely new Consent activity to be created.
Unpublish consent

To unpublish a Consent activity, open the activity options menu (⋮) and select Unpublish.
Or open the Edit consent view by clicking Edit on the activity card. Find the activity options menu (⋮) in the upper-right corner of the page and select Unpublish.
Archive consent

It is possible to archive all project activities, which, in turn, triggers them to be permanently deleted in time. To start the process of deleting an activity:
  • Select the three vertical dots in the upper right corner of the activity card.
  • Select Archive.
  • Select Archive activity.

The activity will be archived immediately and will be permanently deleted after 90 days.
To retrieve an archived activity, reach out to the Longenesis Support team within 90 days.

Contact support@longenesis.com within 90 days after archiving an activity to restore it in your organisation. The process becomes irreversible after 90 days.
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