New Offline XLsform Validator/Debugger

Hello ODK Community,

I'm a new ODK user experiencing slow internet in Ghana. It is taking >1
hour to upload a form to formhub and by the time it does so I've inevitably
made changes to the xls. I'm wondering if there are any offline
substitutes. The link to the offline xlsform uploader provided by the odk
website sends me here

Sean

Sean,

The new link is here:

It says that it doesn't do validation, though -- so it will only partly
validate your code. (It will convert it to XML and report any errors in the
conversion, but it won't check expressions the way that the online version
will.)

We have an offline checker in SurveyCTO that also validates, but it
requires that you download and install Python. (We're getting rid of that
requirement in our next release, and we're adding the constraint-tester and
expression-builders offline -- so that you can basically do everything
offline except run your actual forms.)

Best,

Chris

··· On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Sean Mo wrote:

Hello ODK Community,

I'm a new ODK user experiencing slow internet in Ghana. It is taking >1
hour to upload a form to formhub and by the time it does so I've inevitably
made changes to the xls. I'm wondering if there are any offline
substitutes. The link to the offline xlsform uploader provided by the odk
website sends me here -
https://github.com/UW-ICTD/xlsform.exe/blob/master/README.md and the
download link provides a 404 error. I really just need a tool to debug the
errors as opposed to actually utilizing the survey. Any help would be much
appreciated!

Sean

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And the validation tool is here:

It just becomes a clunkier several-step process ....

··· On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Christopher Robert wrote:

Sean,

The new link is here:

http://opendatakit.org/downloads/download-info/xlsform-for-windows/

It says that it doesn't do validation, though -- so it will only partly
validate your code. (It will convert it to XML and report any errors in the
conversion, but it won't check expressions the way that the online version
will.)

We have an offline checker in SurveyCTO that also validates, but it
requires that you download and install Python. (We're getting rid of that
requirement in our next release, and we're adding the constraint-tester and
expression-builders offline -- so that you can basically do everything
offline except run your actual forms.)

Best,

Chris

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Sean Mo smoran13@gmail.com wrote:

Hello ODK Community,

I'm a new ODK user experiencing slow internet in Ghana. It is taking >1
hour to upload a form to formhub and by the time it does so I've inevitably
made changes to the xls. I'm wondering if there are any offline
substitutes. The link to the offline xlsform uploader provided by the odk
website sends me here -
https://github.com/UW-ICTD/xlsform.exe/blob/master/README.md and the
download link provides a 404 error. I really just need a tool to debug the
errors as opposed to actually utilizing the survey. Any help would be much
appreciated!

Sean

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