How the world has changed since we started these discussions! I believe everyone in this thread has been involved in the COVID-19 response or the getodk migration. Thanks for your efforts on both.
Here are some things I've done related to this:
- started designing a profile/multitenancy concept for Collect with @seadowg. We think that a server managing settings for a specific profile makes a lot of sense. The profile concept solves a lot of user issues so we want to make sure that what we come up with here works well with it.
- iterated on the Collect-only setting that would achieve the desired formList matching behavior. That was the trigger for this conversation and we don't want to lose sight of it. The sooner we can get this feature to users in a manually-configurable way, the better it will be once servers can mandate it. Preliminary update at Have Collect exactly match the forms on Central - #8 by LN with more next week.
- learned more about and used Enketo settings. Like I said before, I want to reconcile the Collect and Enketo settings as much as possible and I hadn't previously had much experience with what is configurable on Enketo. So may of the Collect settings have to do with multiple form management so really aren't relevant to Enketo which deals with single forms. I'm still working through how best to segment these.
- reviewed Collect settings and started working towards deprecating some. Related to the previous point, I think it's important to keep the settings list to what is truly useful. I've put analytics on some settings that I figured probably weren't often used and we have some good candidates for deprecation.