I’d like to have a field (e.g. text field or integer), but don’t want to show it on the form

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Maybe you could do the following workaround using the disabled feature as outlined in the steps shown below:

  • Create a survey form with a disabled column and mark TRUE to all those questions that you do not wish to make it visible for the enumerators.
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    You could also use the following xlsform:
    Disabled.xlsx (9.6 KB)

  • Now deploy the survey project.

  • Collect data and submit them to the server. You should see the disabled column in the dataset. Sample of how it would look:

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  • Now, if you wish to make entries to the disabled questions while editing or collecting data you could simply make a small edit by removing the TRUE from the disabled column as outlined in the image shown below:
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    You could use the following xlsform:
    Disabled.xlsx (9.6 KB)

  • Now replace the xlsform that you have edited and then redeploy.

  • You will now be able to add comments to those variables that you had disabled previously.

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