1. What is the issue? Please be detailed.
In ODK Collect AND ODK WebForms where a rank question is used, no media is showing up from the audio or image columns.
2. What steps can we take to reproduce this issue?
Upload the following Files to ODK Central and open the Public Form in WebForms.
3. What have you tried to fix the issue?
I tried removing a choice filter and still an ordinary rank question that has choices with audio or image media doesn't show them.
4. Upload any forms or screenshots you can share publicly below.
No Audio - WebForms.zip (1.0 MB)
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Hi Tyler,
Thank you for sending this information!
The team will review this feature, we have this ticket to track the implementation. We’ll announce in the forum once we have news about this feature.
@Tyler_Depke I switched this into an ideas post because we are curious to hear from others on this topic as well.
Let us know what you think 
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What are some real-world scenarios where ranking images would provide better insights than a text-based question?
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Thinking back on your recent projects, where did you feel the absence of an image ranking question type? How frequently do those types of projects come up?
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How do you envision this working across different environments? For example, would you use this differently on a Web Form versus in Collect?
The primary use cases for me are with regards to doing surveys to understand learning or preferences of rural people in West Africa.
For the case of fruit trees, we have many fruit trees that don't have local names. Even worse is when common names are the same for multiple things so having a written or audio reference doesn't help. You need a photo/video reference to ensure you're actually talking about the same thing (the main reason botanical dictionaries have lots of sketches/photos).
We plan to do surveys for people who have taken a tour of the farm. Having people select photos for what they saw/learned about would be important and having people rank them is even more insightful for gaining understanding of what people like the most or learned the most about or didn't like
I could see this being used in any sort of feedback survey for people doing a training or class where users would ve able to select in the order of their most preferred to least preferred activities. This would be a fairly widely used use case in areas where NGOs are doing trainings, etc.
For me as a form designer in my context, I can see so many design decisions are clearly for literate people. I think the historical / economic factors clearly drive designers to think about formally educated audiences, but I think not about a formally educated enumerator acting as a translator, but see non literate people filling out forms themselves. 10 years ago, no one here had smartphones and internet adoption was less than 5%. Now I'd say 60% or more of 20-40 year olds have android phones, internet adoption is closer to 40% and literacy rates haven't changed remarkably and probably are less than 50% so the vast majority of rural people, despite having a supercomputer/gps/etc on their pocket everywhere they go, are left out of the party b/c most tools aren't designed to accommodate them.
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