Using pull data to pull pictures from previously collected form to a new form

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Hi,
Welcome back, it has been a while.

Hypothetically speaking this is possible if you do the following

  1. I am sure based on your response you are familiar with pull data functionality which you are going to apply here. Just in case you are not familiar have a look at the following article.
  • You can pull the picture within a select one question where once the beneficiary code has been entered, a specific response for a select one can be pulled which would be the name of the picture. In my example below I have assumed that you will want to add the five pictures at once. So ensure that your CSV has a column for each picture that way all the picture labels are pulled

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  • On the choices for the select_one question, you can have the response item with accompanying media file as shown below. Please note that the name on your CSV file should match the name on the name column B below. In essence, each column of pictures should follow this rule so that when pulling the same they are accompanied with associated images.
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  • The final step would be to ensure that the images exist within the form. You have two options to do this,
    a. Upload all the media files as you upload your CSV (too cumbersome) but this will be the solution if you have no access to the media files. This would be the normal process of upload.
    b. To upload the forms directly to the data collection device if you are using the collect application. You need to find the folder that has the media for the specific monitoring form and copy all the media files to it. Please note that you can also use a folder sync application to push the files to this folder. [These are workarounds since I am considering that you probably have thousands of household pictures). Note using folder sync always is better since you are able to manage which pictures are sent regardless of the form without the need for re-deployment every time). Unfortunately, this is not a support we provide and you can easily post any further support on this on the job site.

Hope this will help clarify

Stephane

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