Limiting time and date for data collection

[msuuta]

Hello Community

Please, I need assistance to set a specific duration and time for my enumerators to collect data. I want to ensure that the enumerators cannot enter the data into the system beyond the days and times.
I am struggling to do the following:

1. Data collection starts from 2023-06-07 to 2023-06-10, thus 4 days
2. The enumerators collect data daily from 8:00am to 5:00pm.

Please, how will I do this in the XLSForm?

Thank you

[Kal_Lam]

@msuuta, maybe these posts discussed previously should help you solve your issue:

Constraint and restrict date entries with a special date (if not known) or a range of known dates

@christian_silvera, you could use the following constraint as shown in the image below: In the survey tab of your XLSForm: [Image 1] Data entry screen as seen in Enketo: accepting 1900-01-01 when a date is unknown [Image 2] Data entry screen as seen in Enketo: rejecting a date that is above 1900-01-01 and below 2021-01-01 [Image 4.5] Data entry screen as seen in Enketo: accepting a date that is 2021-01-01 and above [Image 3] Data entry screen as seen in Enketo: accepting a date th…

And this one too …

Validating a time field against another time field

@mkamzati, you could do it as advised by @wroos following the image shared below: In the survey tab of your XLSForm: [Image 1] Data entry screen as seen in Enketo: when End time is less then the Start time [Image 2] Data entry screen as seen in Enketo: when Start time and End time are same [image] Data entry screen as seen in Enketo: when End time is greater then the Start time [Image 3] Reference XLSForm: TIME.xlsx (9.9 KB)

And this one too …

Time difference question

@transportengineer, maybe you could do it as outlined in the image shared below: In the survey tab of your xlsform: [Image 1] Data entry screen as seen in Enekto: error message missing [Image 2] Data entry screen as seen in Enekto: error message seen [Image 3] Reference xlsform: Time Difference.xls (32.5 KB)

And this one too …

Using preceding DATE-TIME question's response to constraint a question

Hi @dianedetoeuf, Would you mind using the datetime instead of using date and time seperately as outlined in the image below (for catch as well): [image] It should solve your issue. Data Entry screen as seen in Enketo: [image] Reference xlsform: Test date and time.xls (28.5 KB) Have a great day!

[msuuta]

Thank you for sharing very useful information with me