Briefcase status and/or work-arounds: incremental downloads, .csv looped-group output

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Dear ODK Team,

Thanks for such a fantastic product. We're hoping to use ODK for a
bunch of development-economics research here in India, but two
briefcase issues are problematic for us. I just wanted to check
whether fixes were on the immediate horizon, or work-arounds were
available:

  1. Incremental download of data (as, e.g., described in Issue 119). We
    expect 8-10,000 observations per month, and need to download new data
    to CSV nightly. Re-downloading all data every night would be
    unworkable. And using Aggregate's Export doesn't work because we use
    looped groups and need full .csv output.

  2. Full .csv output (as described in Issue 461). I have hand-merged
    Chris Wilson's fix (http://code.google.com/r/chris-briefcase/source/
    detail?r=336e4b2c235b8d973092da923f44a85e3eb022c2) into the latest
    Briefcase sources and all seems to work, but I'm afraid that I may
    have unwittingly broken something. Perhaps a Beta 3 will correct .csv
    output to include all rows for looped groups?

While I have a work-around for #2, #1 remains a killer concern. Any
suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks very much,

Chris Robert

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Hi Chris,

··· On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, Christopher Robert wrote:
  1. Incremental download of data (as, e.g., described in Issue 119). We
    expect 8-10,000 observations per month, and need to download new data to
    CSV nightly. Re-downloading all data every night would be unworkable.
    And using Aggregate's Export doesn't work because we use looped groups
    and need full .csv output.

This seems to already be fixed according to issue 119? As long as you can
install Aggregate 1.0 on the server.

You'll still need to re-export all the data each time, but at least the
download is incremental as you requested.

Cheers, Chris.

Aptivate | http://www.aptivate.org | Phone: +44 1223 760887
The Humanitarian Centre, Fenner's, Gresham Road, Cambridge CB1 2ES

Aptivate is a not-for-profit company registered in England and Wales
with company number 04980791.

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Hi Chris,

Yes! We've been using the latest Briefcase and it seems to be working well.

Thanks!

Chris

··· On Tuesday, February 7, 2012, Chris Wilson wrote:

Hi Chris,

On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, Christopher Robert wrote:

  1. Incremental download of data (as, e.g., described in Issue 119). We

expect 8-10,000 observations per month, and need to download new data to
CSV nightly. Re-downloading all data every night would be unworkable. And
using Aggregate's Export doesn't work because we use looped groups and need
full .csv output.

This seems to already be fixed according to issue 119? As long as you can
install Aggregate 1.0 on the server.

You'll still need to re-export all the data each time, but at least the
download is incremental as you requested.

Cheers, Chris.

Aptivate | http://www.aptivate.org | Phone: +44 1223 760887
The Humanitarian Centre, Fenner's, Gresham Road, Cambridge CB1 2ES

Aptivate is a not-for-profit company registered in England and Wales
with company number 04980791.

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