Force input in all caps

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Good morning all,
Working on a project that collects patient initials only to maintain
anonymity. The end user would like to collect up to 4 letters in ALL CAPS.
My question -- is there an appearance tag that would present the input
keyboard already in caps lock?

I'm thinking of something similar to the example at
http://opendatakit.org/help/form-design/examples/
where a string field is modified to display numbers and a few other
characters by adding an appearance tag to the body. Like this

What other options are available to go with "appearance"? I'm hoping for
appearance="AllCaps" or appearance="uppercase"

Thanks always for great input from the ODK community.

R

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Ruth,

You can't do this without changing the code in Collect. The best way
to do that is to hire a dev from
http://opendatakit.org/help/help-for-hire.

Alternatively, you prevent a user from swiping the next prompt by
using a regular expression that only allows upper case characters.

Yaw

··· On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Ruth Little wrote: > Good morning all, > Working on a project that collects patient initials only to maintain > anonymity. The end user would like to collect up to 4 letters in ALL CAPS. > My question -- is there an appearance tag that would present the input > keyboard already in caps lock? > > I'm thinking of something similar to the example at > http://opendatakit.org/help/form-design/examples/ > where a string field is modified to display numbers and a few other > characters by adding an appearance tag to the body. Like this > > > > What other options are available to go with "appearance"? I'm hoping for > appearance="AllCaps" or appearance="uppercase" > > Thanks always for great input from the ODK community. > > R > > > > > > -- > Post: opendatakit@googlegroups.com > Unsubscribe: opendatakit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com > Options: http://groups.google.com/group/opendatakit?hl=en
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Thanks for the quick response Yaw.
I found the constraint but the client wanted the keyboard to default to all
caps (saving the user a doubletap on caps).
I'll pass it along to our programmer, but its probably not worth the time
IMHO
Cheers!

··· On Monday, November 5, 2012 12:06:11 PM UTC-5, Yaw Anokwa wrote: > > Ruth, > > You can't do this without changing the code in Collect. The best way > to do that is to hire a dev from > http://opendatakit.org/help/help-for-hire. > > Alternatively, you prevent a user from swiping the next prompt by > using a regular expression that only allows upper case characters. > > Yaw > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Ruth Little <ru...@kestrel-tech.com> wrote: > > Good morning all, > > Working on a project that collects patient initials only to maintain > > anonymity. The end user would like to collect up to 4 letters in ALL > CAPS. > > My question -- is there an appearance tag that would present the input > > keyboard already in caps lock? > > > > I'm thinking of something similar to the example at > > http://opendatakit.org/help/form-design/examples/ > > where a string field is modified to display numbers and a few other > > characters by adding an appearance tag to the body. Like this > > > > > > > > What other options are available to go with "appearance"? I'm hoping > for > > appearance="AllCaps" or appearance="uppercase" > > > > Thanks always for great input from the ODK community. > > > > R > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Post: opend...@googlegroups.com > > Unsubscribe: opendatakit...@googlegroups.com > > Options: http://groups.google.com/group/opendatakit?hl=en >