Searching among multiple choice responses

[triptipande]

Hello,
I’d like to know if there is a possibility to search among the multiple choice responses? I have about 20-30 choices in one of my responses and sometimes it may be easier to look up the health facility name. Is this possible?

Thank you

[Kal_Lam]

Hi @triptipande,

Welcome to the community! You could do the same as outlined in the image below:

In the survey tab of your xlsform:

In the choices tab of your xlsform:

Reference xlsform:
autocomplete.xlsx (13.3 KB)

Alternatively, you could do the same in the KoBoToolbox Form Builder User Interface as outlined below:

Search Functionality

Hi @keerthi & @jseiden, Backing up with the response provided by @martijnr, I just tried using the autocomplete in the appearance and it seems to work finely with KoBoCollect application, ODK Collect application and the Enketo. If you are designing the form in XLSForm, you simply need to type autocomplete in the appearance column against the question. If you are using the KoBoToolbox Formbuilder Interface, in the question, click to the setting button > Appearance (Advanced): > other > (type…

Data Entry Screen as seen in KoBoCollect android app:

Please note: The autocomplete feature best works on KoBoCollect android app rather then on Enketo at the moment.

Data Entry Screen as seen in Enketo:

Have a great day!

[triptipande]

This is perfect, thank you so much!