We would like to upgrade our kobotoolbox.org and humanitarianresponse.info services to the latest version of Enketo, but given the magnitude of changes included, we are calling for a period of public testing prior to any new release.
If you are willing to help, please go to https://enketo.for-testing-only.kbtdev.org/. Enter the URL of your form (as shown when viewing the new interface) and the username of an account with access to submit to that form. Then click the submit button, and if all goes well, you should see a list of URLs returned by Enketo. Click the URLs that you find relevant (if you’re not sure, try offline_url), and watch for anything unusual. Please pay special attention to calculations, validation criteria, and skip logic.
Please share your testing results by replying to this post. If find that everything works properly, it’s still helpful for us to know that as well
@jnm I have same problem - punched in an “owner” username and tried both a https://kobo.humanitarianresponse.info/#/forms/xxx/summary URL (as per instructions) and als0 tried with the enumerator URL format (https://ee.humanitarianresponse.info/single/xxx) - but haven’t managed to get any test URLs returned (just the Response from Enketo heading and the Do **NOT** use these links for any data collection other than testing. They may stop working without notice, at any time! information, no list of URLs at all.
Happy to help test, just let me know when URLs are available to try out! Thanks for all your work.
Hello @jnm,
Thanks for all the updates !
Could be great if the testers could also have a list of changes (like “release” notes), to chose some test cases.
To limt the reporting here, I would like to propose: no more than 2 posts on the same error/problem (except additional details).
Kind regards
Well, that was embarrassing! The testing script stopped working with humanitarianresponse.info URLs and I didn’t notice. It should be fixed now. Thanks for the quick feedback.
I’ve just tested it with my form described in this forum post.
Overall, Enketo seems to work well. I found two minor bugs, described below. I believe these exist in the previous version too… so consider this a feature request rather than a regression
Enketo does not handle the summary note that I’ve built into the form. This note shows a variable computed as join(', ', /data/person/foo[contains(${calc_bar}, .)]). It also contains a <br> tag that works well in Collect but doesn’t in Enketo.
Keyboard navigation with repeat groups is tricky. If I have a repeat group with a single text field, navigation goes like this:
Load the form.
Press <tab>. The text field has focus. Enter some text
Press <tab>. The - button for removing the repeat group instance has focus.
Press <tab>. The + button for adding another instance has focus.
Press <space>. Another instance is added.
At this point, the + button still has focus. This is awkward; I now have to press <shift>-<tab> twice to get back to the text field in my newly-added instance. It would be more convenient if the focus would go directly to the newly-added instance after pressing <space> on the + button.
I realize these are very nitpicky… hope they help nevertheless
And… thanks for all your amazing work on the Kobo ecosystem!!
Assuming yes, thank you for testing, @Sjlver! Generally we are looking here for newly-introduced problems or regressions that would prevent us from deploying the new release for mass consumption. Your feedback about past and continued behavior is very useful, though: would you consider reporting it at Issues · enketo/enketo-express · GitHub?
Which link from the initial ee. list to use best for tests with ODK / KoBo Collect forms? We are mainly working with ODK forms. So, how best contribute (test) with Enketo beta, please?
Thanks for editing your message, but I don’t understand what “ODK forms” are. What are you talking about? What is “the initial ee. list”? Do you need to test forms that aren’t hosted on kf.kobotoolbox.org or kobo.humanitarianresponse.info? Sorry if I’m being dense here.
Sorry, if not well explained.
We have and use ODK Collect forms, on OCHA server.
So, who can we best use them to support your KoBo testing demand. How and with which of these links?
Ah, sorry for the cryptic API names there. offline_url may be the one you want if you usually use ODK Collect, as it’s the one that will enable offline data-entry support in the web browser. This is what we show in KoBoToolbox as “Online-Offline (multiple submission)”. You can likely ignore the rest if you aren’t interested in limiting responses to one per person, or redirecting to a URL after a response, or embedding within an iframe, etc. etc.
The URLs in my screenshot that end with sslciB8Y are just for demonstration. They’re for some form that I had and likely not very interesting to you. When you visit https://enketo.for-testing-only.kbtdev.org/ and enter one of your own form URLs, e.g. https://kobo.humanitarianresponse.info/#/forms/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv/summary, you’ll get a whole new set of Enketo testing URLs that are specific to your form.
