As I understand KoboCollect as a fork of ODK Collect is 100% compatible, so using ODK Collect is a strategy that will ensure compatibility while access to new features and updates ealier. ODK, Enketo, XLSForms, the “Collect” android apps are all part of the system, and also pop up in this forum in a way that makes its support harder to benefit from.Īs I have been able to get a better overview of the ecosystem, I now wonder how far the Kobo-ODK compatibility goes. The convenience of the managed platform of KoboTookbox and is very valuable to minimise the technical hurdles of establishing small and large M&E systems, but at the same time it has been a confusing journey for me when it comes to documentation for more advanced functionality. Working on a M&E system for a international rollout of a NGO-led intervention where Kobo was the selected platform, I eventually worked my way to using XLSForms and found the documentation and tools provided at and. Given the retirement of the “Open Data Kit” brand and forming of the new umbrella organisation Data Software For Social Good (DSFSG), could you give an update on the relationship between KoboToolBox and ODK? Hope that helps! (and that I’m not being overly biased… Disclaimer: I’m on ODK TSC ) The main different between Kobo and ODK is that Kobo provides a complete end-to-end hosted solution, and has its own custom backend services for receiving and processing form submissions, whereas ODK just provides the various components with which you can build your own custom solution, using either ODK Aggregate or ODK Central for a backend server. There are a few other commercial solutions that use XForms under the covers, eg Survey123 (Esri), Surve圜TO, Orbeon, … which often also use pyxform/XLSForm to generate XForm form definitions, but oftentimes these introduce custom features so aren’t usually 100% compatible with the ODK toolchain. Once into an XForm format, you can use a web-based XForm renderer like Enketo to view it or fill in your form (BTW Enketo is what Kobo uses for preview and web form filling…), or use an Android mobile app XForm renderer like ODK Collect, or its ostensibly rebranded KoboCollect app. Or there is nothing stopping you from writing raw XForm HTML using your favorite text editor Alternative XForm builders are ODK Build, or using Excel/Google Sheets to write your XLSForm spreadsheet, and then converting it into an XForm running pyxform on command line or using a GUI tool like XLSForm Online, installing an app like XLSForm Offline to do it (both of which are just pyxform wrappers), or upload it into KoboToolbox as an XLSForm and export it as an XForm. KoboToolbox provides a GUI frontend form builder (technically I think it is/was referred to as ‘KPI’), which produces XLSForms, which in turn are converted to actual XForm form definitions using another tool called pyxform. Or is Kobo “just” an alternative for form building (so for XLSForm and ODK build) an form visualization (xsltforms)
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