Multiple line text area

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Very basic question - one of our form fields is a description field
and I would like it to be a multiple line field for ease of input.
Can someone point me to a good guide to xforms field types that work
in ODK?

I first tried some links from the ODK, but they were not working, so I
post here instead.

These 2 links, from this page (http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/
wiki/XFormDesignGuidelines) are not working:
http://code.javarosa.org/wiki/xform
http://code.javarosa.org/wiki/buildxforms

Thanks
Gorav

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hi gorav,

thanks for reporting the broken links, they should be fixed now.

you can use a standard text/string input for multiple line fields.
when the text goes beyond the screen width, it will automatically wrap
to the next line.

you can find an example at
http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/source/browse/Geo+Tagger.xml?repo=forms
(look at the description node)

yaw

··· On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 16:01, Gorav wrote: > Very basic question - one of our form fields is a description field > and I would like it to be a multiple line field for ease of input. > Can someone point me to a good guide to xforms field types that work > in ODK? > > I first tried some links from the ODK, but they were not working, so I > post here instead. > > These 2 links, from this page (http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/ > wiki/XFormDesignGuidelines) are not working: > http://code.javarosa.org/wiki/xform > http://code.javarosa.org/wiki/buildxforms > > Thanks > Gorav > > -- > Post: opendatakit@googlegroups.com > Unsubscribe: opendatakit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com > Options: http://groups.google.com/group/opendatakit?hl=en >
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··· On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 20:06, Gorav Seth wrote: > Thanks Yaw, > Is there any way to have the form display multiple lines by default, e.g. > when the description field opens up a few lines are displayed to convey that > it should be a detailed description (its just a trivial interface issue, but > would be a nice touch in my use case) > Thanks > Gorav > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Yaw Anokwa wrote: >> >> hi gorav, >> >> thanks for reporting the broken links, they should be fixed now. >> >> you can use a standard text/string input for multiple line fields. >> when the text goes beyond the screen width, it will automatically wrap >> to the next line. >> >> you can find an example at >> >> http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/source/browse/Geo+Tagger.xml?repo=forms >> (look at the description node) >> >> yaw >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 16:01, Gorav wrote: >> > Very basic question - one of our form fields is a description field >> > and I would like it to be a multiple line field for ease of input. >> > Can someone point me to a good guide to xforms field types that work >> > in ODK? >> > >> > I first tried some links from the ODK, but they were not working, so I >> > post here instead. >> > >> > These 2 links, from this page (http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/ >> > wiki/XFormDesignGuidelines) are not working: >> > http://code.javarosa.org/wiki/xform >> > http://code.javarosa.org/wiki/buildxforms >> > >> > Thanks >> > Gorav >> > >> > -- >> > Post: opendatakit@googlegroups.com >> > Unsubscribe: opendatakit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com >> > Options: http://groups.google.com/group/opendatakit?hl=en >> > >> >> -- >> Post: opendatakit@googlegroups.com >> Unsubscribe: opendatakit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com >> Options: http://groups.google.com/group/opendatakit?hl=en > >