Kal_Lam
February 12, 2021, 5:36am
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OK, looking at your xlsform i could see thousands of choices under the choices tab. This could be affecting the loading of the survey project in your Collect android app. Generally when you have this long choice list we advise users to use the external choices as outlined in the support article Select One or Many From External File Question Type
In addition you may also find some useful workaround that has been discussed previously in the forum:
Hi @dianedetoeuf ,
If you try uploading 80000 choices (in a survey form), you will surely have a very difficult time as your form will take a lot of time to load. Thus for this, please try using the select one/ multiple from file instead of select one. The steps for configuring a survey form with the same is as follows:
In the survey sheet, try using select_one_from_file (file name with a CSV extension) or select_multiple_from_file (file name with a CSV extension) instead of the select_one as…
And this:
Hi @MarkS ,
Welcome tot he community! Yes, its possible to use the search function in appearance while executing a select_one_from_file question type in KoBoToolbox. However, please be informed that this only works with Enketo at the moment and not with KoBoCollect or ODK Collect.
You could do the same as shown in the image below:
In the survey tab:
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In the choices tab:
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In the csv file:
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Reference xlsform:
select_one_from_file.xlsx (11.8 KB)
fruits.cs…
And this if you have to cascade:
Hi @esmatullaharifi ,
Welcome to the community! You could design your survey form with the cascading select question to get what you have tried for by following the support article here . As a backup you could also have a look at the post that has a simple workaround that should help you understand the concept of cascading select question:
But looking at your xlsform, i see there are more then 800 choices which should affect your data entry performance. Thus a solution for this could be design…
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