ODK Meta - Labelling issuing errors

[Francisco_Carballo]

Hello @Matthew_White,

First of all, thanks a lot for the quick and complete response.

@Matthew_White

Have you tried specifying different values for the local macros at the top of the do-file? The help file describes those macros as follows:

I was not aware of it. Will try it out. I am sure this can solve the problem.

@Matthew_White

Is Elbo Sebuer one of the choices in the choices sheet of your XLSForm? Is it defined in the value label? odkmeta defines value labels toward the top of the do-file. It knows to use quotes for labels with spaces, so that shouldn't be the issue.

It is one of the choices in a preloaded .csv document. I use this document to filter responses by regions and calculate locality codes. So, it does not appear in the value labels towards the top of the do-file. I am not sure how the behaviour of odkmeta is when you use preloaded data. Perhaps I can just paste there the choices from the .csv? In my choices sheet I do not have any choices for the preloaded data, but just a row: locality | locality | locality.

@Matthew_White

I also wanted to draw your attention to the Stata command set trace on , which you can use to determine which command actually resulted in the error message. It can be especially useful for a do-file with a loop. In this case, it should allow you to determine which command resulted in the error message for which dataset and variable. (You should probably also set tracedepth 1 , at least to start.)

Great point, thank you!

@Matthew_White

I know we've discussed the filenames that the odkmeta do-file uses, something we're still working to fix. Are there other issues that you frequently encounter?

With the information you provided, I think all my issues usually come from the preloaded data.

Best,
Francisco