Allow choice duplicate settings in cascade select

[techremote.opc]

I have cascading select set up in my form using Kobotoolbox form builder. But when I try to deploy I get this error:

The name column for the ‘municipality_city’ choice list contains these duplicates: ‘Santa Cruz’, ‘San Jose’, ‘Catarman’, ‘Bontoc’, ‘Tubod’. Duplicate names will be impossible to identify in analysis unless a previous value in a cascading select differentiates them. If this is intentional, you can set the allow_choice_duplicates setting to ‘yes’. Learn more: XLSForm.org.

The "municipality_city: choice list has duplicates because there are provinces that have the same municipality or city names.

How to set allow_choice_duplicates setting in the form builder?

[Kal_Lam]

@techremote.opc, choices generally should be unique. You should be able to learn more from this post discussed previously:

Not able to preview! Seeing allow_choice_duplicate error message!

Hi @toexcelsara, Kindly please be informed that there were still some issues within the xlsform which i have fixed it out: Issue 1: There were some duplicates (as shown in the image below) within the choices tab which i have cleaned it. As a reference i have also marked it yellow so that you could see it (for learning) comparing with the previously shared xlsform. Issues that was still in the choices tab of your xlsform: [Image 1001] Fixed it as follows: [Image 1002] Issue 2: You had us…

However, there may be some cases where the choices should be allowed to be duplicated. In such, case, you could set it as outlined in this post discussed previously:

Displaying a required list of dynamic choices (in a select multiple question) based on the number of text response used within a repeat group

Hi @smbai, Maybe you could try it as outlined in the image shared below: In the survey tab of your xlsform: [Image 1] In the choices tab of your xlsform: [Image 2] In the settings tab of your xlsform: [Image 3] Data entry screen as seen in Enketo: [Image 4] Note: Here the labels are not shown. This should be a bug in Enketo. However if you try the same in KoBoCollect android app it works smoothly and you are too able to see the label. Data entry screen as seen in KoBoCollect android app…

[techremote.opc]

Thanks for your replies. I checked both threads and neither applicable to the issue I have.

While there are municipality names which are the same, they are associated to different provinces. Given cascading select setup.

[Kal_Lam]

@techremote.opc, this is how you set the choices duplicate in your XLSForm …

[techremote.opc]

Hi,

Was able to successfully deploy the form. Thanks for the help.

Cheers,

Vic

[Kal_Lam]

@techremote.opc,