Automatically increment an indexer in a repeated group

[hakan_cetinkaya]

Hi @kevin_razafindrabe,

Here’s how you achieve both of your requests:

1- repeat_count

@kevin_razafindrabe

if it’s stated that there are 10 students:

1. The form will not allow more than 10 repeats.

You need to add a repeat_count column to your begin_repeat, this help article helps you how to achieve that:

https://support.kobotoolbox.org/group_repeat.html#controlling-the-loop-of-repetition-in-a-roster

2- position(..)

@kevin_razafindrabe

he counter starts at 1 and means it’s student 1. Then, when the respondent adds a new repeat, the counter will automatically show 2.

Create a new calculate question that uses the position(..) function to get the index of the iteration in the repeat-group
Reference that calculate field in a note

Here’s an example on how to achieve that:

Limit the number of iterations based on number given previous question

@hadish I think I finally figured what you mean. Please take a look at the attached XLSForm Is this what you meant? Repeat Group.xlsx (10.7 KB) Some notes on what I did: created a new calculate question that uses the position(..) function to get the index of the iteration in the repeat-group in this case references that calculate field in the 3 questions that you require. Here is a snapshot of the changes highlighted [image] Hope this is it.