First, I trust that you tried refreshing or navigating off of and then back
onto your Submissions tab to see if the record would appear. ODK Aggregate
refreshes that tab every 6 seconds if the site is being actively used, but,
if idle, will not refresh the display (to reduce AppEngine charges).
Does your filled-in form have any audio, video or image attachments?
If so, the submission may be tagged as incomplete, and would appear under
the Form Management / Submission Admin tab until those attachments are also
submitted (along with the submission, as additional file attachments in the
post).
If you are using an instanceId in your form, subsequent submissions will
not update any existing submission for that instanceId (only the first
upload alters the database). So you would not see any new submissions in
your table, or any value changes to the existing submission with the same
instanceId.
I recommend writing the filled-in form to a file. You can then compare the
format of that file to a filled-in form submission file produced by ODK
Collect (under /sdcard/odk/instances/). Are the tags identical?
From the code, the order of the tags in the XML is not required to exactly
match that of the form definition, but, if you have trouble, you might also
try placing them in the exact order of the form definition. Note that the
top level tag must match the top-level element of the
block submitted to ODK Aggregate. If it doesn't, I believe the form will
"submit" but show as an empty record on ODK Aggregate (but it sounds like
you are not seeing any submission, even a blank one, appear on ODK
Aggregate).
Once you have the filled-in form saved to a file, you can manually submit
it to ODK Aggregate on the Form Management / Submission Admin tab, to
isolate whether the "success" is an issue with the libcurl POST somehow not
reporting an error back to your app, or if there is further debugging to do
inside ODK Aggregate.
How are you retrieving the prompts for the survey questions?
If I were doing this, I would access the form definition file ( in the _blb
) via ODK Aggregate's
Form f = FormFactory.retrieveFormByFormId( id, cc);
String str = f.getFormXml();
and you could then parse that with the javarosa parser by deriving from
BaseFormParserForJavarosa and access the questions and render the web page
by traversing the Javarosa FormDef.
Or, if you are not modifying ODK Aggregate, but working with a separate
program, you can retrieve the download URL for the XML via either
http://opendatakit.appspot.com/xformsList (this is a debugging interface)
or, if you follow OpenRosa spec, the
http://opendatakit.appspot.com/formListinterface (same as ODK Collect)
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If your code can handle any form without repeats (or even those with
repeats), if you can contribute it back to the project, I'd like to discuss
how that could be done.
Mitch
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Eric Beda eric.beda@sacids.org wrote:
Hi,
I'm working on a project that captures various surveillance data, I have
opted to use ODK. I have installed a local instance of ODKAggregate and
have people in field with ODKcollect, the setup works fine.
Tricky part is, In addition to have people sending data via odk collect to
odk aggregate, some collectors are stationary, and I will want them to send
data via a web interface. I have been struggling to build the interface,
but I have finally accomplished
- Automatic html form generation via details in _form_data_model table
(was unable to process xform via _form_info_xform_blb)
Now the problem comes in submitting this to ODKAggregate what I have done
is following
- Created and XML representation of the html form data (root element
being - excluding the _core)
- used libcurl library and set url to
http://myserver:8080/ODKAggregate/submission
- Enabled anonymous data collection
Problem is submission reply(curl) is successfull, but I don't see data in
the table, and I have no idea where the logfiles for aggregate are located
May anyone point me in the right direction ??
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