Latest Contributions by DataOfficer

Hi, Relatively new Survey123 user here. I'm working on a species recording form for a wildlife monitoring programme. The surveyor selects a survey site from a multiple choice list, for which there are associated survey waypoints. When the user selects the site, a choice filter restricts the survey waypoints to those present in that site (e.g. Site 1 contains waypoints 1-20). During the survey, the surveyor should visit every waypoint, and record if any species were found at it or not. At the end of the survey, I want to include a note that warns them they have not recorded species presence/absence at every available waypoint for that site if they have not done so. This will be dependent on whether all waypoints have been selected during the form, using a relevant function that must compare the number of waypoints surveyed to the number available at that site. Is there a way I can get the Survey123 form to: Keep track of which of the waypoint choices at the selected site have or have not been selected? Count the number (e.g. 18 out of 20 choices) of waypoints that have been selected? I have considered I could use an if statement combined followed by a count function to log when each waypoint is selected throughout the form repeats, but for this monitoring scheme there could eventually be 100's of sites, with 1000's of waypoints which makes this unsuitable (I may instead store these in an external_select, rather than storing these in the choice tab of the XLSForm). The other part of this potential workaround would be to use pulldata to identify the number of waypoints associated with a site, but I don't know how I would pull off the if statement issue with such a large number of waypoint options. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Rob #Survey123 ... View more

I have built a survey to be used as a web form using Survey123 Connect. In addition to giving surveyors the option of uploading an image, I also want to them to be able to upload .gpx files (a file format that seems to be supported by the 'Image' field type). However, I don't want the 'Click here to upload image file' message to appear when requesting .gpx files so what I really need is a general 'upload file' field rather than using the 'Image' field for .gpx files. When designing a survey using the Survey123 website, I can see a 'File Upload' option (located between 'Time' and 'GeoPoint') but I cannot see such an option on the XLSForm spreadsheet.  How can I include a general file upload option in my survey using XLS? Thanks!  ... View more

I've set up an environmental survey that captures information on the site surveyed (including exact location) and the person surveying in the 'parent' group and then has a 'repeat' section for each species observed at each location. The link will be shared with a large number of volunteer citizen scientists who may not be overly familiar with completing online survey forms and I want to make sure the concept of 'repeats' is clear to them. Is it possible to display a 'hint' for an entire group or repeat as you would for individual questions?  To illustrate I've attached a screenshot of the relevant section on the web form. 'Records' is the label for my repeat and I've added a 'hint' that does not display here. I want to explain to our surveyors that they can now enter multiple records relating to the site / location specified above and that they will need to click the '+' button to do so each time. Is there a way of using the 'hint' function on repeats or groups, or is there an alternative way of leaving instructions?  ... View more