Dear Yaw
In continuation of the earlier communication and going through the Features
that Google Drive and Google Form Offers, would like to recommend an
enhancement in the current facility that ODK Offers in integrating with
Google Drive.
Lets say a scenario where i have 100 entities to be mapped by 5 persons and
the data includes images to be stored in Google Drive. Currently the
provision available in ODK is to share the XML form to the 5 users and give
write privilege to the result sheet to all the five users and then once the
data is capture and submitted by the 5 users then the images are uploaded
to the Open Data Kit Folder created in individual users Google drive and
tagged using Google Photos.
Now here the end user gets control over my project data. Time being what i
have done is i shared my Open Data Kit folder to all the 5 other users and
hence all the data submitted by them is being store in my submissions
folder. But still they have access control over my folders.
Suggested Solutions
While submitting Images from Google Forms , A submission directory is
automatically created with the field name of the data in the same directory
location of the results sheets and all the collected data is stored in the
same folder. This seems a better strategy to collect data using ODK Collect
and Google Drive.
Also i suggest that Google can change their access permission levels on
Drive Contents from
Can View and Can Edit, to Can View, Can Edit, Can Write/Can Submit, which
will help safe and consistent data capture using ODK Collect and others
incorporating tools.
Thanks & Regards,Anup Krishna P,Specialist MIS,State Program Management
Unit(SPMU),Rasthriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan (RGSA),Local Self Government
Department,Govt. of KeralaPh: 94960 46910