Hello KoboToolbox community!
I want the user to be able to share a link, and from the data table for the links to be clickable.
Is there any way to do so?
Thanks
@nicopace, did you mean that you wish to share your project data with a user who should be able to view it without logging into an account? Is this what you are looking for?
My data collectors want to be able to come to the data, and for a column to be a link that takes them to a related website.
A practical example could be a link to Google Maps from a geolocation, or an internet search based on the fields of the submission, or an AI query…
I imagine something like this:
The column startdate in this case to be links that take you somewhere based on the data calculated there.
After some research on this it seems this is not possible right now.
It would be great though… do you think it could be added as a feature?
I don’t think there is no case for how collected data is rendered on the table view… but would be great for usability that content that looks like links could be shown as such (as an option, as it is something that could end up being a security issue).
Correct. Presently there isnt a way to create clickable links in the Data table view.
It would be great though… do you think it could be added as a feature?
I agree this could be quite useful (assuming we can resolve any security issues…). That said, have you looked at the existing url form appearance setting? You can use this to basically create URLs; these are in fact clickable in Enketo and KobCollect. And the url does get pushed up into Kobo as-is and will appear in the Data table. However, as you can probably guess, it is not unfortunately directly clickable; although you could cut-n-paste the field it into your browser for the final step.
eg this is a simple form that uses the url appearance to create a mailto url:
SimpleEmail.xlsx (14.6 KB)
The resulting URL is in fact clickable in the form
[I did a mailto: URL here, but you could just as easily do a regular http:// url]
and this url will appear in the submitted Data table:
The final missing piece would perhaps be to make this clickable, huh?
[You could in fact pretend to then ‘edit’ this submission, which would then bring it up again in Enketo and give you an actual clickable link (!), but that’s probably a bit too obtuse to serve your purpose]
Thanks for this.
I did checked that the xlsform allows to visualize urls in forms… but I was interested in being able to see them as links from the table view.
Should I file a github issue then?
Can you please open a new Suggestion Box topic instead. That way it wont get lost under the wrong github project, since it may touch several depending on how its ultimately implemented…
