# What do the various \`source\` types represent on reports **URL:** \ **Category:** Technical Support\ **Tags:** documentation, forms, data\ **Created:** [October 30, 2019, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/what-do-the-various-source-types-represent-on-reports/492 "2019-10-30T22:00:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![marc](https://communityhealthtoolkit.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/marc/32/602_2.png) [@marc](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/u/marc)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/what-do-the-various-source-types-represent-on-reports/492/5 "2019-10-31T13:39:06Z")
> if it gets set to `contact` , wouldn’t the entire `inputs` group be skipped? Correct, that is intended. When accessing a form from the Reports tab the form doesn’t have the context to know who the form is about, so fields in the `inputs` section are used to ask the user to explicitly select the person (or place). When completing the form from the _Contact_ or the _Task_ tab the form knows who the report will be about so that whole `inputs` section is not displayed to the user. Although this is mostly based on convention, there are a couple of things to note. As @diana mentioned, the Core Framework populates the `source` field when coming from a _Contact_ or _Task_. Also, the `inputs` section is always saved with a report, even if the `relevant` condition is false. _Some additional background: Non-relevant fields used to always be saved with reports. This changed in 2.18. When this change occurred we updated the Core Framework to always save the `inputs` section, regardless of the `relevant` condition. More info can be seen in this GitHub issue: [Inputs group not saved when its relevance is set to false · Issue #4875 · medic/cht-core · GitHub](https://github.com/medic/cht-core/issues/4875)_ --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/what-do-the-various-source-types-represent-on-reports/492)._