I have a repeat question that select ('search') and access (pulldata) previously collected data from a csv file. I am already restricting selection of already selected options in previously questions. At the end of the looping question, after all items from current census were selected I need to access items not selected. For each ot them (not selected) I will need to ask some questions, different from previous loop.
The xls is something like this:
type | name | calculation | constraint | appearance|
I have tried several ways to reach this goal. Mostly using the choice-filter with 'not(selected())' options. I have tried to selected all possible choices at the begging of the form using default field without success. I believe if I can access all options in csv file I will be able to filter it by the variable with all selected options (${so_far}).
Hi Hélène,
I am pretty new in this forum and I start to design my first odk forms a few weeks ago. Sorry to ask you directly but it is very close with our answer here.
I am implementing a xml form for trees census in a neotropical forest plot. We have about 40 thousand already tagged and mapped trees. I am uploading previous census data to select the tag in a 'select_one' question type using appearace search("file", ) restricted for a subplot. And after that pulling data from the previous census to check for errors before collect new measures. During the field work we delimited a subset of the plot to work in order to do not miss any tree (20x20 and 5x5m inside it).So, I search for tree tags for each subplot. My question is: I need to show for the user what are the "tree tags" that are not selected at the finish of the repeat tree tag. So, is a kind of what you show but I need to have show only the not selected tags from a subset of csv file data...
My xls form is in: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sqjD_6FP4d1wYe5q8EJHG2mHj-1z38mI/view?usp=sharing
I have a very similar question. How to return a list of select_one questions in a repeat loop, so at each iteration the previously selected data do not show, so at each interactions the choices are n-1 from previously number of choices...
Hi and welcome, @aleadalardo! When you get a chance, please introduce yourself. In general, it's better to post a new topic when your question is not identical to a previous one.
I don't use the search() appearance/function myself so I don't have an exact answer for you but you should be able to use the so_far value you've introduced in your form as an additional filter. You can see here and especially 6 near the bottom for ideas.
Thank you for your help. Is very nice of you answered so quickly. I have been searching forum and other odk documentation and you are a very constant presence helping people. I really appreciated it. Besides that, I like the way you answer questions, it clear and directly to the point.
I am almost given up to set up the form as I would like. Seem to me that no one have the same issue and for me sounds like a very simple one and I can not find a soluction. I just need acess the choices not selected in a repeated questions. It is really fustanting.
I have tried several ways in choice_filter using "not(selected(..." approach and it not works. I tried a simple "name != ... " for a single choice and this do not work too for csv source data.
I tried to figure out how the choices from a answer (from source(file.csv)) are stored in the xml form, but neither this I found. After several tries I tried another way: selecting all choices as default from a previous select_multiple question and store it as a variable... Unfortunable the default column in a xls do not work for pulled data from csv files...
Any way, thank you for the help.