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Avoid sending duplicated submissions to a server #3517

Open grzesiek2010 opened 4 years ago

grzesiek2010 commented 4 years ago

Software and hardware versions

Collect v1.25 and older versions

Problem description

In Collect a user can send the same filled form to a server multiple times. They just need to go to Send Finalized Form -> Three dots -> Change view -> Show Sent and Unsent Forms.

Of course it could be a responsibility of a server as well but neither Aggregate nor Central has such an option, moreover in case of Google Sheets it would be even not possible to do on a server side. So I think we could handle it in Collect.

I can think of two solutions:

  1. The easiest way would be to add and option in Admin settings to hide the Change view -> Show Sent and Unsent Forms option.
  2. Another (more sophisticated) option would be having a new column in instances.db to remember to which server a form has been sent. Then we could allow sending the same filled form multiple times but only to different servers.

Other information

I decided to report this issue because I have noticed some topic on the forum like: https://forum.opendatakit.org/t/duplicates-in-odk-collect/6137/4

my guess is that it's nor necessarily our bug but someone just sends the same form multiple times.

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