==Part 1: How to Build a UTA==
The Universal Tracking Application (or UTA) is a customizable information and process management application within the SmartSimple Cloud system. Organizations like yours use UTAs to track and manage whatever is important. Your organization may use the SmartSimple Cloud platform to handle grants, cases, research, or volunteer management, but your SmartSimple Cloud system is capable of tracking and managing much more. In this hands-on tutorial, we will walk through the basics of building a UTA from scratch and touch on some tools like the user import, autoloader , reports and reportspersonal dashboard.
Let's start by defining what we want to track and manage using a sample scenario.
Move the options you no longer want to be selectable to the end of your list and wrap them in the ssRetiredOptions syntax:
<pre>;<ssRetiredOptions>old values</ssRetiredOptions>;</pre>
Make sure there is a semicolon ( ; ) before and after that syntax. This is preferred to removing the option as you can still retain values chosen and report on the data without allowing people to choose these options going forward..