Hello, I’ve was putting together a form using KoBo Form, mostly by working offline on Firefox. I realized that for several questions the text I had written was not appearing; instead, only the automatically generated question number was appearing. I edited several times, and “Saved to File” and “Sa…

Hi Josh, Sorry to hear about your troubles. Some of these are known issues that we’re working to fix (e.g. Offline version doesn’t work with new Chrome versions ; Drag and drop is unreliable ). For the latest version to be used offline, please download KoBoForm 1.0.26 . If you replace the current con…

Dear Tino, I had the problem with the drag and drop, I save xml versions, but when I try to use them, it won´t open, gives me an error of “null”. I have a lot of changes lost, how to recover my form? Regards! Carlos Rivas S. ▶ ···

Hi Carlos, Could you share the form with us? You can also send it to me privately. This way I can have a look at it and see what the problem might be. Thanks Tino ▶ ···

I´ve just posted a question about that, but here is the file Thanks Tino! BOLETA HOGARES CAFE3.xml (36.7 KB) ▶ ···

Thanks, Tino. I’m installing the new KoBo Form and old Java now. A question–I do have a 64 bit PC. In addition to Java Runtime x64, there are three different x84s–Online, Offline and Kernel. Should I download one in particular? Or all three? Thanks, Josh ▶ ···

Hi TIno, A follow up–Which legacy version of Java is best to install? Thanks, Josh ▶ ···

Hi Josh, The versions you would have to install in your case are “Windows x86 Offline” and “Windows x64”. Hope this helps. Let me know if that fixes your issue. We are planning to replace the Java applets with an HTML5 implementation that would solve both the current bugs as well as obviate having…

That would be great Tino, I presented the workframe to my colleagues and they want to use it, now I will focus on the training material for them because we want to try the whole thing first, before it goes to the field. Regards! ▶ ···

Thanks, Tino. That’s very helpful! Josh ▶ ···

Hi Tino, Installed the two versions of Java 6/Update 33; unfortunately I still can’t get the offline version to open in Chrome, and I can’t load .xml files in to Firefox offline. Would you have any suggestions? Thanks! Josh ▶ ···

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