When are we expecting the ODK system to Link longitudinal data and Bi-directional synchronization

[ChamisaShaps]

Hie Developer,

When are we expecting the ODK system to Link longitudinal data and Bi-directional synchronization

[danbjoseph]

It can be hard to accurately predict the timeline for some of these features. The ODK team needs to balance their time with factors such as availability of funding and the potential impact on the large community of users that depend on the software. The developers need to consider how changes will be maintained, avoid breaking changes for users, etc. Changes to enable new data collection workflows will occur across several versions.

You can learn more about what's happening in the Releases forum category and on the Roadmap on GitHub. Also, there is a helpful aggregation of the many discussions regarding entity-based data collection:

ODK ecosystem entity-based data collection table of contents

There have been many conversations about supporting workflows that are centered around specific people, places or things in the ODK ecosystem over the years. This wiki topic is intended to aggregate them and weave them into a coherent story. Anyone with sufficient seniority on the forum can and should edit the post. Many users have used ODK for workflows that are centered around specific entities using techniques described in the documentation. This topic is about adding more explicit support f…