Enter a data in a specified format

User Support Form Building
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Hola a todos y desde ya gracias por la ayuda… necesito predefinir la forma de ingreso de datos en un campo tipo texto… que coincida con la siguiente estructura ##.#.##.#### (donde los “#” son numeros del 0 al 9), la idea es que el usuario ingrese los numeros y se agreguen los puntos por defecto.

En aplicaciones similares lo he logrado agregando una columna en la pestaña survey del xls con el nombre “body::esri:inputMask”, pero aca no me resulta.

Desde ya muchas gracias por la ayuda.

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Welcome to the community @Patricio_Andres84! Do you mean, you wish to have a text field where users are able to input a number from 0 to 9 only?

Could you kindly share us a dummy response so that we better understand and see if it’s possible in KoBoToolbox?

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La idea es que la respuesta se ingrese obligatoriamente de esta manera. 13.3.02.0045.

Saludos.

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Is it that all the respondents follow the same format of xx.x.xx.xxxx where x referees to a number.

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Asi es, eso es lo que necesito.

Saludos.

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Hello @Patricio_Andres84,
Welcome here.
Few more questions, please:

  • Are always ALl (9) digits needed?
  • Are leading and trailing zeros allowed, even needed?
  • Are there other restrictions, like range of digits/numbers?
  • For ex… are 00.0.00.0001, 10.0.00.0000 and 09.9.99.9990 valid entries
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Well in this case, you could do it as outlined in the image below:

In the survey tab of your xlsform:

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Data entry screen as seen in Enketo: when a wrong entry is made

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Data entry screen as seen in Enketo: when a correct entry is made

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Reference xlsform:

Regex.xls (32.5 KB)

Also kindly please be informed that you should be able to see a lot of regex examples in our support article Restricting Text Responses With Regular Expressions.

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