General question: Can appearances or parameters be dynamic or are they static? 1. What is the issue? Please be detailed. I wanted to provide the option to capture an image, preserve the original and annotate a lower resolution version, OR capture an image and allow annotation and skip the lower re…

[image] ahblake: Can appearances or parameters be dynamic or are they static? To the best of my knowledge [but I'd have to dig thru a lot of code to irrefutably prove it...] the optional XForm control element appearanceand associated parameters XML element attributes (eg max-pixels) are stati…

I figured you'd know the answer to this one, thanks! Sounds like for now I split the question into two with different static appearance and parameters and hope that my suggested 'annotate only' appearance arrives soon.

Yeah, if you want dynamic appearances and/or parameters, you'll have to 'fake' it with separate questions, and use mutually exclusive relevances to flip between them as needed.

As this will create separate variables, you might need to add a third (calculate) variable to get a combined data variable for export and analysis.

Hi, there is a similar current discussion in the Kobo forum: https://community.kobotoolbox.org/t/using-if-conditions-in-appearance-column/67760 https://community.kobotoolbox.org/t/using-if-conditions-in-appearance-column/67760

Some more discussion that I initiated on this topic as well: [image] Dynamic Appearance Change based on previous response Support I tried a similar thing with the parameters field and got an error when trying to upload the XLSForm to Central: "The XLSForm could not be co…

Is it possible to have annotate appearance and max-pixels parameter be dynamic?

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Tyler_Depke April 25, 2025, 4:07pm 7

Some more discussion that I initiated on this topic as well:

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