Kobo submission edit by ASP.NET C# (Using API)

[mizanvai]

Hello team/ members,
Greetings,
I need to Edit data submission using API, is it possible for ASP.NET C#
@Kal_Lam @stephanealoo

thanks in advance

[Kal_Lam]

Pinging in @Josh for this support.

[mizanvai]

thank you @Kal_Lam for your continues support.
i am waiting for @Josh

[Josh]

Hi @mizanvai — yes this is possible but, unfortunately it’s not very straightforward. I’m planning to do a tutorial on this soon but, in the meantime, you can have a look at my recent post here:

Posting data submissions using the KOBO Rest API

Hi @ks_1, unfortunately submitting data with JSON can be unpredictable — I’m also battling. I would recommend rather using XML as that’s how we handle it on the backend. You can see how we handled submission duplication here. It isn’t pretty, but I adapted what I did there to try and meet your current need. You’ll just need to adjust things to make it work for you and likely use Python’s xml.etree library as I did to programmatically update the xml tree. In this example I’ve just used the submi…

And you can take a look at how we handle the new bulk edit feature here – you could essentially just adapt that code for .NET. The key takeaway is that you will need to move the submission’s current instanceID to a new deprecatedID and then create a new value for instanceID – you can read the code comments here about that.

Once you’ve done that, you can submit the data in the same way as I do in the linked post.

Here’s a draft tutorial on submitting data through the API that still needs to be refined a bit:

Spreadsheet to kobo tutorial

Hope that helps.

[mizanvai]

thank you @Josh
i am waiting for it.

[Josh]

Hi @mizanvai, you can take a look at the draft of part 2 of the tutorial and adapt the Python for C#.

Spreadsheet to kobo part 2