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Question numbers #1010

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What tool are you using?
ODK Collect

What is frustrating, troubling, annoying or lacking?
When designing a survey and you have completed putting all the questions and 
there is a request to insert a new question or delete another one, then you are 
faced with the trouble of renaming a good chunk of question numbers.

How would you like it to work?
Introduce a column where one can insert question numbers.

NOTE: the core team has limited ability to make software enhancements.
We rely heavily on community-contributed enhancements to the tools. If this
is something you very much need, consider hiring a developer to make the
changes with the stipulation that they work with the core team to specify
the details of the change and contribute the change back to the project
under an Apache 2 license.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tony...@gmail.com on 30 May 2014 at 7:26

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
You may want to have a 'working' Excel form that uses an extra column and Excel 
formulas to maintain and prepend question numbers to the start of your question 
labels. 

Then, prior to running the survey though XLSForm, make a copy of the Excel 
form, open the copy, select the label column, and Paste Special -- Values to 
remove all the Excel formulas, and finally delete the question number column 
from the form, and run this version through XLSForm.

Because some people want 1.1.2, ... 1.1.2.3 etc. numbering, and others want 
simple number, it would be hard to 'automatically provide' this capability in a 
way that would be widely accepted.

Original comment by mitchellsundt@gmail.com on 11 Jun 2014 at 8:20