General Discussion

Hello everyone.

I am trying to create a repeatable section where the first question/column is prefilled and the technician completes the other questions/columns based on what is in the first question/column.  In your documentation repeatable sections demo video, the 2nd case scenario shows how the floor numbers were automatically entered but I'm not sure how that was accomplished.

For example, I have a resource image of a drawing with various measurements labeled as A, B, C, etc.  We want to ensure that technician provides actual measurements for all labels.   How do I get the various measurement label "letters" to show up automatically in the first column?  Do I need to create a list of the labels somewhere and then have an expression refer to them?

The resulting would look something like this:

Also, is there a way to add camera images to repeatable section rows and how would they appear in a report? Or do images need to follow the repeatable section as, in this case, six regular image questions?

TIA,

Hi Sherri, 

You're raising great questions - there's lots possible here, let's unpack. To your comment on the video from our Docs Center, was this the spot you mean, where the Floors are automatically showing as columns within the Repeatable Section, on the left-hand side?

The video is little older, but at timestamp 1:12, she first selects from a list Buildings, which looks like it's passed in from a Data Source, and when she selects Building C from that list, she sees Floors 1 - 4 autopopulate along the left-hand side, and can click in to see the specific questions per floor.

Beyond the Docs portal, we cover a similar workflow, with Repeatable Sections and Nested Repeatable Sections, here in the TrueContext University. 

You can definitely add an Image question type into the Repeatable Sections and Nested Repeatable Sections, just as you would for Regular Sections. The short answer is, you can always customize whether or not photos are visible. When you mention report, do you mean a PDF Document? The options to hide / show specific questions (like an Image question type), sections or pages in the Question Filtering tab:

By your screenshot, whether you go with Repeatable Sections and/or Nested Repeatable Sections, I can think of a few features that will help your mobile users along, might be worth exploring as you're building out your forms:

• Information Labels can be used to show a list of acceptable ranges for the A,B,C,D,E,F measurements
• Exception Categories can flag and show colour and/or warning messages when values are outside of those ranges
• Answer Exceptions can force mobile users to provide comments when outside of range

Let us know in case there's any further digging we can help out with - and happy building!

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Hello everyone.

I am trying to create a repeatable section where the first question/column is prefilled and the technician completes the other questions/columns based on what is in the first question/column.  In your documentation repeatable sections demo video, the 2nd case scenario shows how the floor numbers were automatically entered but I'm not sure how that was accomplished.

For example, I have a resource image of a drawing with various measurements labeled as A, B, C, etc.  We want to ensure that technician provides actual measurements for all labels.   How do I get the various measurement label "letters" to show up automatically in the first column?  Do I need to create a list of the labels somewhere and then have an expression refer to them?

The resulting would look something like this:

Also, is there a way to add camera images to repeatable section rows and how would they appear in a report? Or do images need to follow the repeatable section as, in this case, six regular image questions?

TIA,

Hi, Erika.

Thank you for all the great information and especially suggesting the Repeatable Sections and Nested Repeatable Sections lesson at TrueContext University. It generated some ideas that I'm going to try out.

Hi Sherri, 

You're raising great questions - there's lots possible here, let's unpack. To your comment on the video from our Docs Center, was this the spot you mean, where the Floors are automatically showing as columns within the Repeatable Section, on the left-hand side?

The video is little older, but at timestamp 1:12, she first selects from a list Buildings, which looks like it's passed in from a Data Source, and when she selects Building C from that list, she sees Floors 1 - 4 autopopulate along the left-hand side, and can click in to see the specific questions per floor.

Beyond the Docs portal, we cover a similar workflow, with Repeatable Sections and Nested Repeatable Sections, here in the TrueContext University. 

You can definitely add an Image question type into the Repeatable Sections and Nested Repeatable Sections, just as you would for Regular Sections. The short answer is, you can always customize whether or not photos are visible. When you mention report, do you mean a PDF Document? The options to hide / show specific questions (like an Image question type), sections or pages in the Question Filtering tab:

By your screenshot, whether you go with Repeatable Sections and/or Nested Repeatable Sections, I can think of a few features that will help your mobile users along, might be worth exploring as you're building out your forms:

• Information Labels can be used to show a list of acceptable ranges for the A,B,C,D,E,F measurements
• Exception Categories can flag and show colour and/or warning messages when values are outside of those ranges
• Answer Exceptions can force mobile users to provide comments when outside of range

Let us know in case there's any further digging we can help out with - and happy building!

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Hello everyone.

I am trying to create a repeatable section where the first question/column is prefilled and the technician completes the other questions/columns based on what is in the first question/column.  In your documentation repeatable sections demo video, the 2nd case scenario shows how the floor numbers were automatically entered but I'm not sure how that was accomplished.

For example, I have a resource image of a drawing with various measurements labeled as A, B, C, etc.  We want to ensure that technician provides actual measurements for all labels.   How do I get the various measurement label "letters" to show up automatically in the first column?  Do I need to create a list of the labels somewhere and then have an expression refer to them?

The resulting would look something like this:

Also, is there a way to add camera images to repeatable section rows and how would they appear in a report? Or do images need to follow the repeatable section as, in this case, six regular image questions?

TIA,