# Automatic update of forms

**URL:** <https://forum.getodk.org/t/automatic-update-of-forms/2516>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [August 23, 2013, 8:59am UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/automatic-update-of-forms/2516 "2013-08-23T08:59:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elvis](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@Elvis](https://forum.getodk.org/u/Elvis)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 8:59am UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/automatic-update-of-forms/2516/1 "2013-08-23T08:59:12Z")

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Hi all,

I was wondering if is any way to update automatically the blank forms to  
ODK Collect? i mean that the interviewer should not check every time for  
new forms or new versions of existing forms, if i can do this from odk  
aggregate?

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**Author:** ![Mitch\_S](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Mitch\_S](https://forum.getodk.org/u/Mitch_S)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/automatic-update-of-forms/2516/2 "2013-08-23T17:40:04Z")

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No.

This functionality is not available for ODK Collect; at one time, the ODK  
Manage server was envisioned as sending an SMS message to the device  
informing it of new forms, etc. There would be a listener app on the phone  
to detect the SMS and trigger a form download -- but that listener app was  
never written, and the ODK Manage server was never completed.

For the future, for the new tools, we are developing an ODK Submit app on  
the phone that could listen for notifications from the server and notify  
the user that syncing is possible and/or needed. This is not yet in alpha  
and will lag the release of ODK Tables and ODK Survey. There are  
technologies like GCM that can replace the SMS notification with a non-SMS  
notification, so this mechanism can work on devices without SIM cards; we  
have been looking at those as part of this tool.

Mitch

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> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Elvis wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I was wondering if is any way to update automatically the blank forms to  
> > ODK Collect? i mean that the interviewer should not check every time for  
> > new forms or new versions of existing forms, if i can do this from odk  
> > aggregate?
> > 
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