How to label exported images?

[luna_ricky_tavi]

In one form multiple photos can be collected, but when exported I cannot say which photo belongs to which form, since all photos are in one folder. Can someone help with how to label the exported photos?

Thanks!
Luna

[danbjoseph]

The form submission data will have the filename as the answer to the question. Each filename is unique and so will only match one cell in the spreadsheet of data.

Renaming the images in an efficient manner would likely require a custom script of some kind.

There was a long discussion about adding a functionality for customizing the filename of collected images. It's a complex challenge!

Spec proposal: naming media files

Media files taken by users (like images/videos/audios) are saved in ODK Collect with names that represent the timestamp (in milliseconds) when they were gathered (e.g. 1660920606988.jpg). For many users, this is a problem because they can't easily link files named in this way with data they were taken for (see: Naming pictures based on values from the filled form) We would like to allow specifying how file names should look like. In order to do that, we want to introduce a new body attribute na…

[snillok4u]

I can write you Stata code to label each picture using your dataset.

If you can concatenate well, then just follow this template;

copy "c:/file-location-directory/pix-name" "c:/preferred-directory/name-in-dataset"

[luna_ricky_tavi]

Thank you for your reply. Where can I use this "c:/file-location-directory/pix-name" "c:/preferred-directory/name-in-dataset" ?
Can you explain please the workflow in detail of how to label the images ?

[luna_ricky_tavi]

I got the solution. In the exported excel table the name of the image is also present which corresponds to the name of the image in the image folder.

[snillok4u]

Apologies for the late response. Good to know you finally sorted things.