Date time and geo stamp on photo taken

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HI @Kal_Lam

long time ,
there is a requirement for our team members that they need to click photo and video and wht they need is date time stamp along with geo tagging , can you please help on below

  1. how can i achieve this in kobo form
  2. if it can not be buil in kobo then is there any facility to open default application as camera which can help use to achieve this , as there is one app name date time stamp which can do this

Cheers !

Neeraj

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Yes, you can use the external app image widget to do exactly this. It will launch your specified external app on the phone - instead of the default camera - which you can then use to take a photo, mark it up with timestamps, GPS, etc, and save to the phone’s gallery. A followup image question can then be used to fetch this image from the gallery.

This is an example form that uses the popular Open Camera to acquire the image.

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ExternalCamera_appearance.xlsx (14.4 KB)

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Note, there is also newer approach to accomplish basically the same, via specifying an app parameter instead of the ex:... appearance. This is supported in KoboCollect today, but unfortunately it requires a newer version of pyxform to deploy a form using it [so if you try it today you will get a deployment error]. However, this will be fixed shortly as we are rolling out a new version of pyxform in the next Kobo release, at which point you can use either approach.

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