How to require answers before moving to the next page, as opposed to when ending the survey

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Hello,
I'm building a survey instrument to learn about drinking water behaviors in arsenic-affected West Bengal, India.

I want to make several answers "required", but so far the "required=yes" command hasn't worked very well for me: when using ODK Collect, I'm able to move to the next page even if a "required" question is skipped. It's not until the very end of the survey that I get a prompt that some required questions have been skipped.

Is there a way to make the "required=yes" command effective right away, before moving to the next page of the survey? In the case of a long survey, it's a little cumbersome for enumerators to have go back to questions that should have been answered long ago.

Let me know if there is a way to solve this problem!
Thank you!
Caroline

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Caroline,

In your General Settings, make sure Constraint process behavior is set
to validate upon forward swipe.

Yaw

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On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 12:09 PM, caroline.delaire@orange.fr wrote:

Hello,
I'm building a survey instrument to learn about drinking water behaviors in arsenic-affected West Bengal, India.

I want to make several answers "required", but so far the "required=yes" command hasn't worked very well for me: when using ODK Collect, I'm able to move to the next page even if a "required" question is skipped. It's not until the very end of the survey that I get a prompt that some required questions have been skipped.

Is there a way to make the "required=yes" command effective right away, before moving to the next page of the survey? In the case of a long survey, it's a little cumbersome for enumerators to have go back to questions that should have been answered long ago.

Let me know if there is a way to solve this problem!
Thank you!
Caroline

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Thanks a lot! It worked!

··· Le mercredi 1 octobre 2014 12:09:27 UTC-7, caroline...@orange.fr a écrit : > Hello, > I'm building a survey instrument to learn about drinking water behaviors in arsenic-affected West Bengal, India. > > I want to make several answers "required", but so far the "required=yes" command hasn't worked very well for me: when using ODK Collect, I'm able to move to the next page even if a "required" question is skipped. It's not until the very end of the survey that I get a prompt that some required questions have been skipped. > > Is there a way to make the "required=yes" command effective right away, before moving to the next page of the survey? In the case of a long survey, it's a little cumbersome for enumerators to have go back to questions that should have been answered long ago. > > Let me know if there is a way to solve this problem! > Thank you! > Caroline