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Polar Earth Observation Database of satellite sensors
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Consistency in New data entry template #39

Open Azamattf opened 1 year ago

Azamattf commented 1 year ago

Issue

The template has pre-defined list of options for multiple choice questions. When someone adds an answer not included there, Other should be selected and a desired answer is to be written. However, when answers of the "Other" kind get accumulated, they would get inconsistent, e.g. someone would write CryoSAT, another would put down Cryo-SAT, etc, leading to data inconsistency.

Solution

To make the answers consistent, can we automate this process? The desired automation would take the new Other-type answer and automatically include it in the pre-defined list of options . Thus, the next person submitting the form would see the updated list of options.

AdrienWehrle commented 1 year ago

Hi @Azamattf and thanks for your thoughts on this! This sounds like a good idea and shouldn't be too hard to implement, we can work on it and see! :smile:

Azamattf commented 1 year ago

Hi @AdrienWehrle ! Awesome! Actually I got the idea from an add-on on Google Forms :)