Checklists are a powerful UI component that can help to drive user activation and adoption of key parts of your product.

Candu allows you to create a checklist that lists tasks and next steps for your users to complete within your product. These tasks can be automatically checked off based on user events. This helps users visualize their progress and motivates them to work through any remaining steps that have not yet been completed.

For example, if the first step you want a user to do in your product is to invite collaborators to their account, you could add an Invite Teammates step to a Candu checklist and set it up to be ticked off once Candu receives a product event that a user has been invited.

🤩 Pro-Tip: Auto-complete your first checklist item to give users a sense of accomplishment when they first login. Everyone loves to see tasks already ticked off and feel like part of the work is already done!

ℹ️ Please note that if you want to autocomplete checklist items based on key events taken outside of Candu, you will need to pass user events into Candu. Please see more information on how to connect Candu to product events here.

In the Candu Editor, you can drag a checklist component onto the document and add the steps you want users to complete.

ℹ️ Before adding events per checklist item, please ensure that your checklist settings are set to 'Per User'.

You can then click on each step & choose whether you want that step to be event-driven and auto-checked off or not. This option is on the right-hand toolbar under 'Checklist Item Settings.'

You can select 'Click' or 'Event.'

For example, for 'Create your Candu account,' we have set it to be auto ticked off when a new user logs in, as they have already registered their account. We pass the event 'User Registered' into Candu so the checklist can update when new events are captured or triggered.

If you do not currently pass any product events into Candu, you can still use Candu's interaction data to trigger step completion. Please ensure you include a call-to-action button in each of your checklist steps, e.g., 'Add new user' that directs a user to the page to do this and use the 'Click' event, which Candu tracks, to trigger an auto-completion of this checklist task. If a user has not yet completed the action, it will not appear within the dropdown.

Once a user has completed all steps within the checklist, you can either:

Ideally, you can use the third option to ensure your users are provided with the best user experience possible by surfacing new relevant content relative to their journey with your product so far.

In order to remove the checklist or show new content, you will need to create a Segment of users that have completed the checklist.

To do this, navigate to 'Segments' > select 'User Event' and then find 'NAME OF CHECKLIST completed' and mark that it has occurred. Candu will automatically create this event based on the checklist title.

Back in the Candu editor, you can now create new content and either: