Step2: I try to edit the upper survey in the list: the one with the species “Gladde witbol/Holcus mollis” and “Acer japonicum”.
The form opens and I see the string I entered: “holc”, but the list of species does not appear
I tried to change the first species (repeat 1) “Gladde witbol/Holcus mollis” by entering a new string “trifol” and I choose “…”, just to see what happens
I tried to change the second species (repeat 2) “Acer japonicum” by entering a new string “Lotus” and I choose “dutchscientname_key”, just to see what happens
Hi @BartRoelandt
Aha! This is a known behaviour. Since you are using the webform to edit, it is affected by the limitation of search function which only works on the collect application. I hope this clarifies the issue you have been facing.
Stephane
Hello Stephane,
Thank you for the clarification.
But is there a solution? Is this known imperfection something that will be fixed in a next version of KoboToolbox? Or is there a workaround by designing the form in another way?
Because this is the core-function of our form: the collecting of species-data.
Best regards,
Bart Roelandt
Hi,
Unfortunately there is no timeline for the implementation of the search functionality on Enketo which is what is used for webforms and hence editing the forms.
This is a very long thread which seems to take several detours into details which are not directly related to what is probably the core of the discussed aspect: Is it not possible to edit data in a form which uses an external file, like with appearance <= minimal search(‘facilities_ls’,‘contains’, ‘org_label’, *, ‘org_empty’, ${empty})? The solutions mentioned somewhere in the thread don’t seem to be related to this core question.
I think it would be very helpful for the community, if you added a short summary of the conclusion on this question. Thanks so much in advance!
Hello,
A KoBo advice should be given? Avoid using search (and autocomplete?) option if you want to be able to edit submitted cases later on server level?
An Enketo restriction is noted here, but only for select_multiple (should be corrected?) https://xlsform.org/en/ref-table/ - see autocomplete.
This problem seems independent from pulldata context?
I have the same problem as @BartRoelandt waiting for a solution. Because the solution marked in the post, does not solve it. Thank you very much in advance for your help.
