Enter text to be automatically in uppercase

[allmylife017]

Hello dear friends,
First of all, thank you for the effort you are making to respond to our requests. Today I would like to ask you if in kobocollect at the text type level how we can put the data automatically in uppercase ?
thanks

[Kal_Lam]

@allmylife017, you can do it as outlined in the post discussed previously using regex code:

Restrict an entry with upper case and special characters while entering a form

Hi @PEHAN, Welcome to the community! You could do the same following the instructions outlined below: In the survey tab of your xlsform: [Image 1] Data entry screen as seen in Enketo: With a wrong entry [Image 1] Data entry screen as seen in Enketo: With a correct entry [Image 2] Reference xlsform: UPPER CASE (Regex).xlsx (10.1 KB) Have a great day!

And also as follows using translate:

Enter Text to be in Uppercase

Hi @wroos, cc: @branno813, This can be done as outlined in the image below: In the survey tab of your xlsform: [Image 1] Data entry screen as seen in Enketo: [Image 2] Reference xlsform: UPPER CASE (Translate).xlsx (9.7 KB) Have a great day!

[allmylife017]

@Kal_Lam : Please, I tried but it doesn’t work for [UPPER CASE (Regex).xlsx|

[Kal_Lam]

@allmylife017, could you share what is not working?

[allmylife017]

@Kal_Lam : Ok

[allmylife017]

@Kal_Lam : here is the error message

[Kal_Lam]

@allmylife017, the main file has been updated. Could you have a check again. It should work. Thank you for flagging the issue.

[allmylife017]

@Kal_Lam

the main file has been updated. Could you have a check again. It should work. Thank you for flagging the issue.

@Kal_Lam : Please, where can I see the main file updated ?

[Kal_Lam]

@allmylife017, check out the original post that I have shared. I have made changes in the main post:

Restrict an entry with upper case and special characters while entering a form

Hi @PEHAN, Welcome to the community! You could do the same following the instructions outlined below: In the survey tab of your xlsform: [Image 1] Data entry screen as seen in Enketo: With a wrong entry [Image 1] Data entry screen as seen in Enketo: With a correct entry [Image 2] Reference xlsform: UPPER CASE (Regex).xlsx (10.1 KB) Have a great day!

Maybe you will have to give a closer look at it again.

[allmylife017]

@Kal_Lam : Now it works. Once again thank you.