Adding limits

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Good day

How does one get to set limits on an open ended numeric question on KoboCollect?

These would be, for example, a question that accepts a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 30.

Regards

Thulani

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Go to settings (in the numeric questions) and in Validation Criteria field click on Manually enter your validation logic in XLSForm code and paste this code

string-length(.) >= 5 and string-length(.) <= 30

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El lunes, 15 de febrero de 2016, 8:30:07 (UTC-3), Thulani Gebuza escribió:

Good day

How does one get to set limits on an open ended numeric question on KoboCollect?

These would be, for example, a question that accepts a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 30.

Regards

Thulani

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I was checking the code again and realize that when the integer is larger than 16 digits, kobo automatically converts it in an exponential number.

So, my recommendation is to create a text question and instead the code I gave you up; use this one

regex(., ‘[0-9]’) and string-length(.) >= 5 and string-length(.) <= 30

``

what this code does is to restrict the field only to accept numbers and also restrict the length

Regards,

K.

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El lunes, 15 de febrero de 2016, 8:30:07 (UTC-3), Thulani Gebuza escribió:

Good day

How does one get to set limits on an open ended numeric question on KoboCollect?

These would be, for example, a question that accepts a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 30.

Regards

Thulani

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Thulani, are you seeking to restrict the number of digit (length) if the answer, or just that the number provided has to be between 5 and 30?

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On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Enrique Ramírez dana...@gmail.com wrote:

I was checking the code again and realize that when the integer is larger than 16 digits, kobo automatically converts it in an exponential number.

So, my recommendation is to create a text question and instead the code I gave you up; use this one

regex(., ‘[0-9]’) and string-length(.) >= 5 and string-length(.) <= 30

``

what this code does is to restrict the field only to accept numbers and also restrict the length

Regards,

K.

El lunes, 15 de febrero de 2016, 8:30:07 (UTC-3), Thulani Gebuza escribió:

Good day

How does one get to set limits on an open ended numeric question on KoboCollect?

These would be, for example, a question that accepts a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 30.

Regards

Thulani

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Hi Patrick

the number provided has to be between 5 and 30

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On 15/02/2016, Patrick Vinck <zon...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thulani, are you seeking to restrict the number of digit (length) if the
answer, or just that the number provided has to be between 5 and 30?

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Enrique Ramírez <dana...@gmail.com> > wrote:

I was checking the code again and realize that when the integer is larger
than 16 digits, kobo automatically converts it in an exponential number.

So, my recommendation is to create a text question and instead the code I
gave you up; use this one
regex(., '[0-9]') and string-length(.) >= 5 and string-length(.) <= 30

what this code does is to restrict the field only to accept numbers and
also restrict the length

Regards,

K.

El lunes, 15 de febrero de 2016, 8:30:07 (UTC-3), Thulani Gebuza >> escribió:

Good day

How does one get to set limits on an open ended numeric question on
KoboCollect?

These would be, for example, a question that accepts a minimum of 5 and
a
maximum of 30.

Regards
Thulani

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Hi Thulani,

  1. You need to first add a question and select the ‘number’ as question type.
  2. Once the question is added, you need to edit the question settings - click on the cogwheel on the top right corner of the question box.
  3. The settings option will appear with a menu bar on the left with three options - Question Options / Skip logic / Validation criteria
  4. Select Validation Criteria
  5. Select ‘add a condition’
  6. Enter the condition using the signs and values you want - you will have the option to add multiple conditions, and make sure to select that the question must meet all the criteria specified. Your screen should look like the attached.

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On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Thulani Gebuza thul...@fgi.co.za wrote:

Hi Patrick

the number provided has to be between 5 and 30

On 15/02/2016, Patrick Vinck zon...@gmail.com wrote:

Thulani, are you seeking to restrict the number of digit (length) if the

answer, or just that the number provided has to be between 5 and 30?

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Enrique Ramírez dana...@gmail.com

wrote:

I was checking the code again and realize that when the integer is larger

than 16 digits, kobo automatically converts it in an exponential number.

So, my recommendation is to create a text question and instead the code I

gave you up; use this one

regex(., ‘[0-9]’) and string-length(.) >= 5 and string-length(.) <= 30

what this code does is to restrict the field only to accept numbers and

also restrict the length

Regards,

K.

El lunes, 15 de febrero de 2016, 8:30:07 (UTC-3), Thulani Gebuza

escribió:

Good day

How does one get to set limits on an open ended numeric question on

KoboCollect?

These would be, for example, a question that accepts a minimum of 5 and

a

maximum of 30.

Regards

Thulani

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