Uploading new data or appending previous data to kobo server

[Suman]

Surveyed data are stored in the Kobo server. Sometimes I feel, and once was a crying need that, if it were possible to append few previously collected data to the newly collected data form, then I could analyse the changes of the result by Kobo automatic report.

I think this service will make happy to many.

[Kal_Lam]

Hi @Suman,

Do you mean something like this one:

The data is there in the server which your team has collected. You verify and edit some of them. So now you wish to have a raw dataset that was not edited and at the same time you also wish to have an edited dataset along the raw dataset where you could compare the changes that you have made by editing the same.

Have a great day!

[Suman]

@Kal_Lam

Do you mean something like this one:

The data is there in the server which your team has collected. You verify and edit some of them. So now you wish to have a raw dataset that was not edited and at the same time you also wish to have an edited dataset along the raw dataset where you could compare the changes that you have made by editing the same.

Yes, exactly.
Also, appending previous survey data or uploading other existing data as excel or CSV file from a computer.
Thank you.

[Kal_Lam]

@archibald, linking your query here as a reference:

Upload datasheet to exisiting form

Hello, We have a very long form with above 1000 submissions where corrections on excel is way easier compared to directly on Kobo, so i was wondering if there is an easy way to upload these corrected submissions directly into KoBo? I have searched around the web and forums and found old threads suggesting that there are no ways to do so (unless python method), i wonder if this has been updated and there is a way now? Thanks

[Kal_Lam]

@humam, @dimesh linking your post here as a reference:

Can I auto-upload already collected data from excel

I have data that had been collected outside of Kobo. After I made some adjustments and amendments to it, I need to upload the final file to a Kobo project. Is there any way to do this automatically and not to enter them one by one? I have been advised to use pull-data, but I am not sure this will serve my purpose.