Form export data

Hi, We have an app which is being used in the field at the moment. We need
to add another question. However, when we did originally, we moved some of
the original questions into a repeat group. When we used the 'form export
data' the originaly questions were no longer there - so the previously
entered data wasnt downloaded. We could get to the data but clicking on
'Show deleted properties' and then selecting the relevant fields. But we
didnt 'delete' these fields - but we moved them into a group which I guess
had the same impact as deleting them? We have now reverted to the previous
form of the app and are thinking more carefully about how to add these
questions without making the previous questions 'deleted fields' .

Does anyone know if we just add questions and dont create groups will this
leave the rest of the questions unaffected and we can still download all
the data in the 'form export data' ?

thanks Nicola

Hi Nicola,

The reason your previous data appeared as 'deleted' is because when you
move questions into a repeat group (or any other type of group) it
*does *change
the Question ID by adding a prefix- for example the question ID *my_question
*would become *group_name/my_question *if it was moved into the new group
*group_name. *

When you change a question ID, CommCare will treat the two question IDs as
two separate questions; that is, CommCare will not treat this as an update,
rather, it will treat it as though the *my_question *question was deleted
and the *group_name/my_question *question was added. The consequence is
that when you download the data you will have two columns: my_question,
which will have values for all old form submissions, and
group_name/my_question, which will have values for all new form
submissions. In the export configuration, the old question ID,
*my_question *will appear as a 'Deleted Question'.

You can learn more about how making changes to a deployed application can
affect your data and application here
https://confluence.dimagi.com/display/commcarepublic/Making+Changes+to+a+Deployed+Application#MakingChangestoaDeployedApplication-ChangingQuestionIDs
.

However, if you have reverted your application to the previous version, and
you add new questions without moving any other questions into groups the
rest of your questions will not be affected.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Kaley

ยทยทยท On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 12:01 PM, wrote:

Hi, We have an app which is being used in the field at the moment. We need
to add another question. However, when we did originally, we moved some of
the original questions into a repeat group. When we used the 'form export
data' the originaly questions were no longer there - so the previously
entered data wasnt downloaded. We could get to the data but clicking on
'Show deleted properties' and then selecting the relevant fields. But we
didnt 'delete' these fields - but we moved them into a group which I guess
had the same impact as deleting them? We have now reverted to the previous
form of the app and are thinking more carefully about how to add these
questions without making the previous questions 'deleted fields' .

Does anyone know if we just add questions and dont create groups will this
leave the rest of the questions unaffected and we can still download all
the data in the 'form export data' ?

thanks Nicola

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"commcare-users" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
email to commcare-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--
Kaley B. Lambden
Senior Field Manager | Dimagi, Inc.
Skype: kaley.lambden