Are ODK entities able to now work offline?

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Are ODK entities able to now work offline?

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As of Central v2024.3 and Collect v2024.3, you can use Entities offline.

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Thanks for the response . So i have a form that i use to generate new IDS to participants. For every new participant, the previous ID is incremented by 1 to generate the new ID
The challenge i have is the calculation to generate this ID looks at an already uploaded excel to determine the previous assigned ID. I was thinking of using entities to update this uploaded excel in real time since in the field we usually work on 3 participants or more at a go .
can entities help with this?

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Yes, Entity Lists should be a great fit for this! The general concept would be to look up some existing number like the biggest id assigned so far and add 1 to that.

I think you'll find this thread helpful: Generate sequential ID based on pulled data - #6 by LN