Could anyone help me with this issue:
I am in need of counting the time consuming for each section consisting of 10 questions for instance. I used now() function before and after the section but unfortunately, it was not working because “now()” function gives constant values for both. I used once() function with now() but also did not work: format-date-time(once(now()), ‘%H:%M:%S’).
What I should do?
Regards,
Delshad
Hi @botani,
You could try this out using the audit meta question type. Please see the support article on Audit Logging Meta Question Type for detailed step by step guide.
Dear Kal_Lam,
Thanks for your concern and answering my question. But may be you did not get my point, I meant time spent per section to be appear after section finishing directly at the time of conducting interviews on KoboCollect. So, how can we do that?
Delshad
Have a play at the following form:
grouptimer.xls (5.5 KB)
Basically, it takes a timestamp the moment you finish answering the question that is immediately before your group/section [there’s no way short of pulling raw data out of the audit log to get the actual timestamp you started the group, so this is the next best thing…]. Then it takes another timestamp to moment you finish answering all the questions in the group; since you might answer them in any order, I check all of them not merely the last in the group.
The ‘secret sauce’ here is probably capturing the timestamp with a conditional once(now()) - if the condition isnt met the calculation returns null, so the calculation will keep firing till its met. Once met, the timestamp wont be overwritten.
Note: unfortunately, Enketo currently truncates decimal-date-time() values to 3 decimal places (!) which severely limits the precision of these timestamps to approx 86sec (1/1000 of a day). This will hopefully soon be fixed in https://github.com/enketo/enketo-xpathjs/issues/70. So if you test this under Kobo preview, go get a coffee before answering the last question in the group… 
Dear Dr. Gareth,
Thanks alot for your accurate responses all the time.
Regards,
Delshad Botani
FYI @martijnr has fixed this (see add decimal-time(), fix decimal-date-time · Issue #70 · enketo/enketo-xpathjs · GitHub). So when Kobo next pulls in Enketo (@jnm?) you should be able to preview/run my form a bit better.
I am also trying to measure the time spent per each section/module. However, I am not able to capture the correct time with the answer from Xiphware.
Can anyone take a look at my file and help me with the measurement?
module time measurement.xlsx (15.4 KB)
Thank you for your time!
Welcome to the community, @sang! Maybe these post discussed previously should also help you solve your issue:
