First of all: A big THANK YOU to all developers - ODK is such a wonderful
tool, I love the app and gave it 5* in Google Play!
My challenge: How to get ODK Collect to download a "media" folder
automatically from a Google Drive. Is there a way to do it?
Can this work somehow, or is it unsupported at the moment, or even a bug?
Downloading the bird example with the media folder and files (from ODK
Aggregate) works perfectly fine, but I have trouble getting my own media
folders to download.
I noticed that the media folders (with csv and/or jpg files in it) are not
automatically downloaded if I host them on my Google Drive.
Example:
I store myform.xml myform-media (folder with csv file in it)
Is there anything I can do to "convince" ODK Collect to download the media
folder and its contents from a Google Drive?
My current workaround is to manually copy & paste the media folder onto the
phone.
This works well for me, but unfortunately, this is an unacceptable way for
our use case where multiple (non-tech) people in the field need to get an
update on a regular basis.
I wouldn't mind if the user had to manually select the media folder, but
ODK Collect only allows to select xml files.
All suggestions welcome and I look forward to hearing back from you!
Thanks so much for the 5 star review. It helps make ODK visible to
more people and that's a great thing!
I can confirm this is a bug. Collect should download the media folder
automatically.
I've filed the bug at https://github.com/opendatakit/collect/issues/290. If you have some
dev cycles, comment on the issue to claim it, and give it a whirl. And
if you have any questions, ask in the issue and someone will jump in
to help.
Thanks,
Yaw
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On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 7:17 AM, Robby wrote:
> Dear ODK Community and Developers,
>
> First of all: A big THANK YOU to all developers - ODK is such a wonderful
> tool, I love the app and gave it 5* in Google Play!
>
> My challenge: How to get ODK Collect to download a "media" folder
> automatically from a Google Drive. Is there a way to do it?
> Can this work somehow, or is it unsupported at the moment, or even a bug?
>
> Downloading the bird example with the media folder and files (from ODK
> Aggregate) works perfectly fine, but I have trouble getting my own media
> folders to download.
> I noticed that the media folders (with csv and/or jpg files in it) are not
> automatically downloaded if I host them on my Google Drive.
>
> Example:
>
> I store
> myform.xml
> myform-media (folder with csv file in it)
>
> Is there anything I can do to "convince" ODK Collect to download the media
> folder and its contents from a Google Drive?
>
> My current workaround is to manually copy & paste the media folder onto the
> phone.
> This works well for me, but unfortunately, this is an unacceptable way for
> our use case where multiple (non-tech) people in the field need to get an
> update on a regular basis.
> I wouldn't mind if the user had to manually select the media folder, but ODK
> Collect only allows to select xml files.
>
> All suggestions welcome and I look forward to hearing back from you!
>
> Best regards,
> Rob
>
>
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Many thanks for this - I was wondering, and it's good to hear that you
confirm it.
I had trouble with the itemsets.csv (in the media folder) and
unfortunately, I won't be able to fix this anytime soon I think.
Nevertheless, I'll have a look at the code and see what I can contribute.
I am definitely willing to assist with any testing and I can confirm the
issue also exists with the media-folder and itemsets.csv in it.
(I have no jpg or other files in the media folder, jus the itemsets.csv).
Thanks for the confirmation - it's great to know one is not alone with this!
Cheers
Robby
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On Monday, December 5, 2016 at 5:17:40 PM UTC+10, Robby wrote:
>
> Dear ODK Community and Developers,
>
> First of all: *A big THANK YOU to all developers* - ODK is such a
> wonderful tool, I love the app and gave it 5* in Google Play!
>
> *My challenge: How to get ODK Collect to download a "media" folder
> automatically from a Google Drive. Is there a way to do it?*
> Can this work somehow, or is it unsupported at the moment, or even a bug?
>
> Downloading the bird example with the media folder and files (from ODK
> Aggregate) works perfectly fine, but I have trouble getting my own media
> folders to download.
> I noticed that the media folders (with csv and/or jpg files in it) are not
> automatically downloaded if I host them on my Google Drive.
>
> Example:
>
> I store
> *myform.xml*
> *myform-media* (folder with csv file in it)
>
> Is there anything I can do to "convince" ODK Collect to download the media
> folder and its contents from a Google Drive?
>
> My current workaround is to manually copy & paste the media folder onto
> the phone.
> This works well for me, but unfortunately, this is an unacceptable way for
> our use case where multiple (non-tech) people in the field need to get an
> update on a regular basis.
> I wouldn't mind if the user had to manually select the media folder, but
> ODK Collect only allows to select xml files.
>
> All suggestions welcome and I look forward to hearing back from you!
>
> Best regards,
> Rob
>
>
>