Dear staff, I have started using Kobotoolbox for work purposes for about 3-4 months ago and I like it but there are some issues I wish to discuss. I will do my best to explain as much as possible. I have one question that is inter-related to many other questions I am seeking answers for. I am using kobo collected data to visualize it on PowerBI.
In the survey that we have created at work (with another account than this I am writing from) we have revised the questionnaire a little bit because the surveyed people wished to include an under category to one of the existing questions back then. Therefore, what I did was that I removed the existing question they wished to change and added a new question as a “cascading select”. As such I wrote down the same values for the questions, and added a new value for the new question and new values for the two new subalternative answers. What happened thereafter is that when downloading the Excelsheet some of the alternative answers are showing as value codes instead of village names as they used to before. So, meaning that when I compare two Excel sheets extracted from two different periods (one from pre-change of the survey and the second one from post-change of the survey) in the second excel post-changed, the name of the villages is shown as values instead for instance instead of “Hasbaiya” as shown in the first, it is shown as “LBN42017”. Also, I have noticed that I still can get the names of the villages, only if I do not tick “Include fields from all 15 deployed versions”. If I do not tick that box I get to see the excel sheet with 972 entries. If i tick the box I see 971 entries. As there are so many entries I can not really see the difference, why is there a difference of 1 entry? Therefore, I am unsure what is the fault or which shall be done, ticket and unticked box?
