Signature in Kobotoolbox

[prosper.konate]

Hello dear,
I have been working with Kobotoolbox for some time …
now, I am looking to integrate a function allowing people to sign from the smartphone screen at the end of the interview.
thank you for your assistance.

Bonjour chers tous,
Je travaille avec Kobotoolbox depuis un certains temps…
maintenant, je cherche à intégrer une fonction permettant aux personnes interviwées de signer depuis l’écran du smartphone à la fin de l’interview.
merci de votre assistance.

[Xiphware]

You can use a photo (ie image) question, with appearance='signature'. This will popup a drawing box where you can ‘draw’ your signature.

[the ‘signature’ appearance is basically the same widget as the more general purpose ‘draw’ widget, except you cant change pen colors]

[goli]

Hello, despite using your guidance, my interface brings to options ‘‘take picture’’ and ‘‘choose image’’ and doesn’t return a drawing box for the intended signature. What is the problem? See attached

[osmanburcu]

Hi @goli,

can you please check if your question type is signature as shown below

[goli]

Thanks for the quickest response. Have alook at my xlsform screenshot. I assigned ‘signature’ as the appearance and question type as ‘image’

[osmanburcu]

Signature can be used in the KoboCollect as well, so i believe it is not compatibility issue. I see that appearance written as w3 Signature, can you change it with “signature” only problem might be w3.

https://support.kobotoolbox.org/collecting_signatures.html?highlight=signature

[goli]

Thanks so much. It is working after removal of the column width w3 as advised.

[Xiphware]

@osmanburcu

can you change it with “signature” only problem might be w3.

I also suspect this is the problem… Although you can specify multiple appearances - see ODK XForms Specification - obviously some are going to be incompatible/mutually exclusive of each other; eg specifying both minimal and quick for a select_one…

I’m not sure all the valid permutations are documented anywhere, nor a priority order of which one gets applied first, so YMMV if you specify more than one. I’d suggest sticking to a single appearance unless you are sure another one will work alongside it.