Dynamic Data Attachment with Repeating groups

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I have a form where there is a repeating group with questions. How Can I attach those answers to another form sing dynamic data attachment?

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@CristhianFerreira, kindly please be informed that the dynamic data attachment feature at the moment does not support the repeat groups. Feel free to reach us back if you wish to sponsor this feature.

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Is it possible to use the dynamic-data attachment where data from the parent form will be pulled to a repeat group of a child form? please note that i am aware that it possible to use pull data feature.

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Yes it is possible; if you want to full data from the same form; do DDA connection with the same form.

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Hello,

Is there a possible workaround to this? Like creating a calculate question outside of a repeat group which can then save each repeat entry as an entity? I would like to do this for my designed project where I have multiple plots nested within a block. The number of plots is dependent on block size, and therefore dynamic, which is why each plot is a repeat group. My parent form involves initial assessments of these plots and my child form is a follow-up assessment of the same plots. In my child form, I would like users to be able to select the plot at which they are located from a map and then have the plot information collected in the parent form autofill the plot information (like plot ID, slope, etc.) in the child form. Let me know if you would like me to attach my parent and child XLS forms.

Thank you very much for any help you can provide!

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Sorry about this but the dynamic data attachment does not currently support repeats from the parent fully. The best workaround per now is to specially attach the responses in the repeat to another calculate question out of the repeat in the parent form. Then the new calculate question responses can then be accessed by the child form. Functions like selected-at() or string functions might then be used to access instances of the repeat at child form level.

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Thank you for your response.

Do you know how I might pull the latitude and longitude from a geopoint question (inside repeat) to outside of the repeat and save it as a geopoint outside of the repeat to then be selected in the child form via map?

Thanks!

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Hi alex,
This can be quite tricky and complex with a geopoint set of questions. The issue comes at the point of displaying them on map for single select question on child form. You could make the location names be picked first then the point can be shown on the map,here just for verification purpose. For the true representation of your thought, the best reliable alternative is to process the data post initial interview and convert the geopoint features into a geojson file which you can include as a select map question type in the child form.
All the best.

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Thank you for all of your help, Steve!
I will use an external geojson of my geopoints from my initial survey.

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