Name form submissions based on response

Hi,

When submitting a completed form through KoboCollect, is there any way to have one of the form responses appear as the default ‘Name this form’ text when submitting, or will it always be the name of the form itself?

e.g. “Joe Bloggs” entered as response to ‘Name:’ on a form called “Questions” - ‘Go To End’ is selected, the default under ‘Name this form’ would be “Questions” - any way to link it to the name field so it would default to “Joe Bloggs” instead (or whatever other name was entered as a response in the ‘Name’ field)?

I hope that makes sense…

Thanks in advance!

Hi @tgmeo
Welcome to the community. To answer your question, kindly have a look at discussions that have happened here.

Stephane

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Hi @stephanealoo,

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Much appreciated.

All the best,
Tom

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@tgmeo, you could name the form based on the response (using instance_name from the settings sheet) as shown in the image below:

In the survey tab of your XLSForm:

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In the settings tab of your XLSForm:

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Data entry screen as seen in KoboCollect Android App:

Data entry screen as seen in KoboCollect Android App: the submission is automatically named based on the variable entered earlier

Reference XLSForm:

instance_name.xls (23 KB)