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Do the different screens in the platform adapt to my needs and workflow?
Are there any problems I experience regularly?
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In the DATA section of the KoBo UI, if you hide any field, Validation field becomes hidden too. And it seems there is no way to hide or show the Validation field in hide fields selection screen.
Here are some screenshots about the case:
As you can see validation field is not-hidden, like every field.
There is no way to hide or un-hide the validation field:
Hiding just the ID field:
As I hide just the ID field, validation field is gone:
Hi @hakan_cetinkaya thank you very much for letting us know, that should definitely not be happening! We’ll look into it and try to fix it for the next release.
The way to “fix” the problem in current situation is to open the “hide fields” dropdown and use the “reset” button in it. This will make the Validation status column appear (and all the other hidden ones). If you use the column header dropdown option “Hide field” then the Validation status will not disappear.
Hello @wroos thank you for your comment! We thought of the validation field as an extension of the action column (the select, view and edit buttons for each row), and as a result it behaves similarly and can’t be hidden.
Can you tell us more about why you would rather being able to hide it as well? Is screen space an issue even when toggling full screen? Shouldn’t the status of each row always be visible?
In the single editing article it states: (under Please Note, Second bullet point)
It is not possible to do bulk edit or deletions.
This is no longer the case with the implementation of bulk editing . You might want to update that note.
In an archieved project, it is not possible to edit a single submission. That is totally understable. And the visual representation of the single edit button is not there. That is expected behaviour. As can be seen in the screenshot below.
However the bulk edit button is available, and when you click on it, it brings you to the bulk edit screen.
In the bulk edit screen you can make edits for your question with no problem. Only after clicking Confirm & Close button in bulk edit screen, you get the following error message:
This design suggests that editing submissions in an archieved project is possible, but in fact it is not.
This post is about single validation and bulk validation
The support article Record Validation uses old UI for the visuals. This causes minor problems for new users.
The validation status of a submission in an archieved project:
Can be changed through clicking Change status on the top:
But it cannot changed through clicking the status itself: (You can click on the options but the status doesn’t change)
So right now, we have two options to change validation status of a submission in an archieved project. One option works, one does not. Which is inconsistent.
Hello @ig_rebollo,
My apologies for late reply.
It is ok. But not everybody uses this validation on server level, e.g. for us it comes to late, we do “validation” by supervisor before submission. And it seems more similar to a column (variable) than to an action button, like select, view etc.
Kind regards
