Pulldata does not work with URL

[dmenne]

• Using the bookstore example with pulldata; to simplify, I replaced barcode field with text field, and use shorter numbers (e.g. 688) as id-

Trying to build a form that will use pulldata() function to verify barcode ID

Hi @henryakuete, Please see the images below to build a survey form that uses barcode as question type to pull data from the csv file. You could practice this by replacing the barcode (Code) of the csv file with the ones that you have from any of your books (this is the one that i had them with me). Just wanted to show you a demo that if you have a barcode number, you could manage them in your csv file and use the pull data function to get the desired information during your survey. Image 1 (i…

• When I upload the file Choices.csv, everything works file
• When I link via URL, I get the error below (sorry, in German, but the gist is clear). I have checked that https://menne-biomed.de/uni/Codes.csv is downloadable from the browser - it should still work now, feel free to test
  
  

[Kal_Lam]

Hi @dmenne,

Don’t see it working at my end too. But someone from the community could come-up with a workaround.

Have a great day!

[dmenne]

Here it is, but it is pure horror to implement.

REST request to retrieve a value from an external source

I have looked into this, and here is a workaround. It means that some of the suggestions posted here and in https://support.kobotoolbox.org/en/articles/978826-pull-data-functionality-in-kobotoolbox are not correct. Pulldata from an URL is not supported. I am not sure about this, because it is tempting to use it when you upload a media csv file, but let’s wait for someone knowing better. So we must try to use the “manual copy csv-method” by using a sync tool. I used SMBSyn2 on Android, which wo…

[Kal_Lam]

Hi @dmenne,

Thank you for documenting it so beautifully. It should definitely benefit the community users interested to try out on the same.

Have a great day!