Formatting Questions for Performance Reviews

WideAngle includes powerful formatting to help you customize the questions in a Performance Review. 

Text Formatting

WideAngle provide rich-text formatting with the use of Markdown. Markdown is popular way many web platforms bring editing power to the user without the challenges and mistakes of more complicated formatting tools. 

WideAngle supports almost all Markdown syntax, what follows are the most popular styling tips:

italic text:	*your text here*
bold text:	**your text here**
strikethrough:	~~your text here~~
Custom Links:	You can insert your own custom links with the following syntax: [the text you want to display](the_url_of_the_link)
Bulleted List:	Use an empty line, followed by new lines started with a "*". For example: * This would be the first list item * This would be the second list item
Numbered List:	Use an empty line, followed by new lines started with "1." (you can use any number, we will automatically number them correctly). For Example: 1. This would be the first list item 1. This would be the second list item
Tables:	You can create tables using pipes "|" and dashes "-" |first column header|second column header| |-----------|-----------| |first column data|second column data| |first column data|second column data|
Images:	You can link to images: [!image alt text](url_to_image)

Merge Tags

Merge tags are the way WideAngle supports showing the correct question to all parties in a performance evaluation. For instance, you would like managers and direct reports to grade the direct report on the core competency of "self-starting." The direct report (assume she's named Mary Sue) should see the following question:

"On a scale of 1-5, how would you grade your core competency in 'self-starting?'"

However, Mary Sue's manager (and you) should see:

"On a scale of 1-5, how would you grade Mary Sue's core competency in 'self-starting?'"

Merge tags are the answer! Within the performance review, you would configure the question as:

"On a scale of 1-5, how would you grade %DIRECT_REPORT_POSSESSIVE% core competency in 'self-starting?'"

WideAngle will show the right text to the right people. You will be able to preview your question with sample data in the performance review editor. 

The following table lists all the available merge tags:

%DIRECT_REPORT%	Substitutes the direct report's full name (e.g. Jon Smith)
%DIRECT_REPORT_POSSESSIVE%	Substitutes the direct report's full name as a possessive following standard English rules (e.g. Jon Smith's)
%MANAGER%	Substitutes the manager's full name (e.g. Jon Smith)
%MANAGER_POSSESSIVE%	Substitutes the manager's full name as a possessive following standard English rules (e.g. Jon Smith's)
%ORGANIZATION%	Substitutes the organization name of the WideAngle account