Whenever I publish my submissions to Google Docs, i have a lot of unnecessary headings that are useful only within ODK collect. In the spreadsheet, they are always empty. Each time I publish a new one, I have to keep deleting the columns that are empty because they take up a lot of space.
Do I have the option to remove these columns and save this customization? It is a hassle to manually remove so many columns each time I publish a new one to Google Docs.
Thank you
I don't think there is anything you can do without a code change to
ODK Aggregate. It's publishing all instance nodes whether they are
empty or not and I think that's the right thing to do.
If you want an option to skip empty nodes, then file a feature request
(or even better, submit code).
Yaw
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 1:55 AM, yoginyap@gmail.com wrote:
Whenever I publish my submissions to Google Docs, i have a lot of unnecessary headings that are useful only within ODK collect. In the spreadsheet, they are always empty. Each time I publish a new one, I have to keep deleting the columns that are empty because they take up a lot of space.
Do I have the option to remove these columns and save this customization? It is a hassle to manually remove so many columns each time I publish a new one to Google Docs.
Thank you
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This is one of the shortcomings of ODK Collect; the form definition has no
way to omit calculated or intermediate fields that were not needed during
data analysis.
In the 2.0 tools, you can define variables that last only for the duration
of the data collection session (session variables). This was specifically
added to address this shortcoming.
I don't think there is anything you can do without a code change to
ODK Aggregate. It's publishing all instance nodes whether they are
empty or not and I think that's the right thing to do.If you want an option to skip empty nodes, then file a feature request
(or even better, submit code).Yaw
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setup, professional support, and software development for ODK.On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 1:55 AM, yoginyap@gmail.com wrote:
Whenever I publish my submissions to Google Docs, i have a lot of
unnecessary headings that are useful only within ODK collect. In the
spreadsheet, they are always empty. Each time I publish a new one, I have
to keep deleting the columns that are empty because they take up a lot of
space.Do I have the option to remove these columns and save this
customization? It is a hassle to manually remove so many columns each time
I publish a new one to Google Docs.Thank you
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