User specific answers

[Warks]

Hello,

We will be launching next year a campaign aimed at studying hunting practices in a southern American country. The initiative is centered around intermediary, who will collect data about hunting trips from their own local group of hunters on a weekly basis.

A form will be created for each hunting trip and will notably contain the pseudonyms of the hunters that participated.

Each intermediary will follow a different number of hunters for 2 years. The number may vary during the extent of the initiative.

To avoid errors when typing their pseudonyms, I’d like for the input to be a multi-choice question, but the answers provided should be user-dependent. Also, an intermediary should have the ability to add new pseudonyms to the list. Something like this could work to allow the intermediary to add a new hunter (User-Specified “Other” Responses for Multiple-Choice Questions — KoboToolbox documentation).

I’ve looked a bit around, but I couldn’t find anything about this. Is that achievable in Kobotoolbox ?

Thank you !

[Kal_Lam]

Welcome to the community, @Warks!

@Warks

To avoid errors when typing their pseudonyms, I’d like for the input to be a multi-choice question, but the answers provided should be user-dependent.

You should be able to achieve this as outlined in this post discussed previously:

Cascading questions - select multiple and select one type questions

@vincentkayemba, you could also do it as outlined in the image shared below: In the survey tab of your XLSForm: [Image 1] In the choices tab of your XLSForm: [Image 2] Data entry screen as seen in Enketo: [image] Reference XLSForm: Cascading Select Questions.xls (30.5 KB)

@Warks

Also, an intermediary should have the ability to add new pseudonyms to the list.

And, you should be able to achieve this as outlined in the post discussed previously:

How do i display other in a choice filter?

Hi @Ah_ly, You could do the same as outlined in the image below: In the survey tab of your xlsform: [Image 1] In the choices tab of your xlsform: [Image 2] Data entry screen as seen in Enketo: [Image 3] Reference xlsform: Cascading Select (with Other).xlsx (12.2 KB)

[Warks]

Thanks for your answers.

I haven’t tried it yet. But, am I correct in assuming that this implies updating the form (on both sides) every now and then to manually add the new names to the list of available choices ?

If I’m right, would there be (any) solutions to avoid updating the form on the user side ? I would like to reduce frictions as much as possible…

Thank you again !

[Warks]

Hello, I’m bumping this back up. Is my assumption correct ?

I’m still looking for a way to fully automate this process

Thanks