I think the intended users are folks who work in Excel and other statistical packages are the primary users and so I defer to @Matthew_White's judgment since he has more experience with those users. And it also seems like other servers use this approach so it can't be too bad
@mayank8318 Excel has 16,384 max columns. For a first pass, we can just not allow more than that in the flattened CSV and see what feedback users have. It seems unlikely that someone would complain.
@Matthew_White@yanokwa Is this right?
There is a form with fields Farmer(name, age), Child[Repeat](name, age , favourite colour), Plots[Repeat](size, crop type).
Two farmers FamX(3 children, 2 plots) and FamY(2 children, 2 plots) fill the form. Their flattened CSV will look like this -
Welcome to the ODK forum, @bhavyejain! We're glad you're here. When you get a chance, please introduce yourself here. I'd also encourage you to add a real picture as your avatar because it helps build community!
Unfortunately, I won't be participating on GSoC this year. Unless some other mentor shows up, there won't be any Briefcase project this time.
@ggalmazor the ideas page of ODK still shows GSoC - 2018. Will it be changed for GSoC 2019 or the same continues? Just in case new projects/ideas come ahead.
