What is the general goal of the feature? I would like to see ODK Collect remember the previously entered value for a form/question combination. I'm imagining this feature could be implemented as some kind of auto-complete for text fields or as an explicit store and recall that is specified in the f…

The feature that @cooperka and @tomsmyth described in the roadmap is about to be released in Collect. I'll try to summarize how I think of it and @cooperka / @tomsmyth , please jump in to correct and augment. The feature will make it possible to specify questions that should automatically be populated…

I know this topic is a bit old, but I wanted to drag it back because I still think it'd be very useful! As I have chewed on this topic for the last few months, I think there are a couple of open questions that make it tricky to implement. I figured I should bring some of those out in the open and g…

Should this feature be enabled at the device level for all questions or something that a form designer enables on particular questions. I would lean toward the latter. Doing the former might be disruptive to existing users and could even lead to errors. Some questions you probably want people ans…

Hey everyone so after reading all the comments here this is an idea I have as to how the previously entered answers could be presented to the user. [previous_selected_odk] I am displaying five answers as if that's the amount of previously selected answers that can be shown at a given time. E…

Hi @joeldean , it looks very useful and close to what my colleagues want. Thanks for the work ! Mathieu

Nice to see a concrete UI proposal, @joeldean ! I think this layout will be strange with fields lists (all questions on one screen). These are becoming more common as device screens get bigger so it's important the UI work well in that context. I share your concern about long values. How are you ima…

Thanks for the feedback! With this approach I wasn't planning on filtering the items at all. They would just all be displayed when the question comes into focus. Yes the autocomplete can work as well. That was the inclination I had at first but went for this design due to it's ability to be visible…

Hi @joeldean , How this project of "previously entered answer" is going. I am looking for something like it. I am doing a re-census of tagged trees in tropical forest and I would like to show what trees are already measured during the work.

Hey @aleadalardo I haven't started implementing the feature as yet because a specification is still being designed for it. Currently, based on the decision here we have agreed that we can utilize an autocomplete UI that drops down with previously used answers for selection. Considerations are …

@joeldean @yanokwa any updates here? Who is/was working on writing this up as a spec? We may have some interest in taking it up.

@tomsmyth We don't have a spec for this and it'd be awesome if you'd take it up!

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