Enhancing Webform for a Better Standard Data Collection Experience

Webform is Auto-Enabled + Complex Question Types Now Come Standard + There’s a Print Button! (for those of you who just can’t quit paper)

Data-collectors, rejoice! Team Standard Co has been burning the proverbial midnight oil to better align Standard Data’s Webform functionality with open source ODK Collect protocol. Now, Webform is more powerful than ever, giving you the tools you need to collect data with ease and make decisions, faster – all from your desktop OR mobile web browser.

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See It In Action

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Why Make These Enhancements?

Because oftentimes, quality data collection requires more sophistication than ‘text’ boxes and ‘select one’ options – and we believe these possibilities should be available at the click of a button.

ODK Collect supports complex logic, computations, question types, and more – basically anything you’d need to support life’s most complex forms & surveys. While ODK Collect is a fantastic tool, it currently exists as an Android app, which doesn’t offer a ton of flexibility as a data collection method. With Standard Data’s latest Webform enhancements, you can easily share a link with respondents (or embed directly into your website), and they’ll be able to complete your sophisticated forms & surveys without needing an Android device...or yet another username/password combo to remember. In fact, any connected mobile device OR desktop browser now operates seamlessly with Webform.

Ready For the Details?

You asked, we delivered! Standard Data’s Webform now supports the following:

• Altitude & Accuracy - geopoint has been enhanced to capture not only latitude & longitude, but also altitude and accuracy data - anytime, anywhere
• Auto-Redirect - automatic redirect to new landing page to avoid multiple or repeat submissions
• Auto-Save - allows respondent to close browser and return to survey/form without losing their submission
• Calculations - calculates inputs based on values of preceding questions
  i.e. respondent indicates there are 2 adults in the household and 1 child in the household, the survey/form automatically calculates total household as 3
• CAPTCHA - ensures that the respondent is a real human being
• Cascading Selects - allows questions to cascade based on a previous selection
  ‍i.e. if respondent selects “Georgia” as their location, a following question re: county only populates choices for counties in the state of Georgia
• Groups - creates a group of related questions, often helpful for analysis
  ‍i.e. “the following group of questions relates to household income”
• Hints - instructs the respondent on how to answer a question
  ‍i.e. “answer must be between 1-100”
• Multiple Choice Questions - questions that allow multiple options to be selected
• Print - allows user to print a blank or filled out survey in a clean format, no annoying website header or footer included
• Repeats - the ability to repeat a question or group of questions
  ‍i.e. if respondent inputs that there are 3 people in a household, the survey/form repeats fields for “name” and “age” 3 times
• Skip Logic - the ability to skip a question or group of questions using a ‘relevant’ attribute
  ‍i.e. if respondent selects “no” for Q4, skip Q5
• Webform By Default - Webform is now enabled by default, saving users one more step in implementing Webforms for sharing/collection
• * For Required Questions - visual asterisk cue letting respondents know which questions require an input

So, What’s Next?

We’ll continue to tinker with functionality and UX, adding support to bring Standard Data’s Webform to full parity with ODK Collect protocol & help you do more with data.

Combine this with our Auto-Dashboard functionality (which allows you to instantly visualize your data real-time), and paper is a thing of the past — unless, of course, you’re the one who asked for the new Webform Print enhancement…

For more information, schedule a free 30-minute consultation with one of our real human data experts today!

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