How to creat a question that allows you to enter values for a list of expensese

User Support Form Building
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Is it possible to design a question which allows you to input responses in a single grid. Eg.

What is your month expenditure for the following categories of expenses:

Rent/Mortgage $400
Food $250
Utilities
Health
Transportation
Other

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Hi,
You can get a work around for this by creating a group question with appearance field-list and having individual integer questions as shown in this excel Testing Alternative Grid Question.xlsx (10.6 KB)

This is a screenshot of how the excel looks like this
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When you deploy this form, you should be enter to have a look and feel that looks as follows
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Hope this helps,

Stephane

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Thanks for your response. My challeng is I am knew to Kobo and I still haven’t understood how to do what is required in the XLS. How should the question be structured in building the form in Kobo before exporting to XLS?

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Hi
Welcome to KoBoToolbox.
You can create a group question using the instructions provided in this article and then set the appearance as follows on form builder

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Stephane

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Can you tell me if this look correct.

And then how will I be able to write the calculation for it to be totaled.?

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Hi @scherrie,

Seems like it’s OK. However i see that you have used the begin_repeat and end_repeat instead of begin_group and end_group as advised by @stephanealoo. Also do not forget to use the field-list under the appearance column with the begin_group as shown in the image able by @stephanealoo.

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Have a great day!

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Thanks for responding. Where would I change the appearance? I tried to do it for the group heading and the only option it gave was to select advance appearance where the all appear on the screen together. Should i go into each question and select the appearance?

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Also can you tell me how to write the calculation if you want to obtain the age of someone from the date of birth?

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Hi

For this topic I would suggest you you look at the discussions that happened here Age calculation

On the form-builder interface this is what is meant by field-list appearance.

Stephane

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Thanks for responding Stephane. Is this correct?
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Additionally, I have a group of questions that will repeat where date of birth is a question. How do insert the calculation in the group for that to be calculated? In the same way? Would that question have the same “birth” label?

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Hi @scherrie
The calculation should just work fine for you as you indicated.

On this question;

Have a look at the use of indexed-repeat as explained in our articles and discussions in the forum here.

Stephane

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