Retrieving Dynamic Media from Entity

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@Tyler_Depke

In the ODK Question Types documentation it says "Selects from external datasets can be used in all the same ways as internal selects". However, in the Entities documentation it states, "Another difference is that there currently isn't support for media or translations in Entity Lists."

Thanks, we should make the no media/translation distinction clearer from the start.

@Tyler_Depke

Are there any future plans to include media or translations in entity lists?

Yes. For translations, we have a promising proposal here that we haven't had a chance to prioritize more work on yet.

I think @ahblake has cooked up the best workaround there is for now! If you haven't seen it already, this post may provide a little more context on the way things are now.

You may also find it interesting to take a look at this spreadsheet where we track the high-level functionality we believe we have ahead of us as we expand the Entities model. You'll see that story 0.09 is about attaching files to Entities. We track the work we have scheduled in the roadmap and that spreadsheet is a dynamic thinking and planning tool.

@ahblake

hopefully there's a simple way to upload/link files to an entity, and your entity list will already have the filenames for matching.

That's the intent! There's likely going to be some tricky work needed for Collect/Enketo to be able to access media that belongs to an Entity rather than a Form, possibly including some additions to the form spec.