Using a hidden value inside a repeat group?

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Hello everyone -- I have an issue that some folks may know how to solve:
How to use a hidden value to perform a calculation when inside a
repeating group? I get an error when I try to do this.

Here is the story:

I have a form in commcare that is repeating questions for each member of a
household that is being surveyed.

Therefore, first I asked “what is the total number of people in the
household,” stored in a question keyword number_in_house.

Then I made a repeat group titled repeatgroup ... which repeats
number_in_house times.

One of the questions in the repeat group is date of birth, titled dob.

Then, I made a hidden value, simply to calculate the age... call the field
calculate_age ... of course, something like
int((today()-/data/repeatgroup/dob) div 365.25)

And then, for this example, let’s say that for now I just output that
calculated value using a label.

But when I do this, of course, I get an error message... internal error
handling request... a lot of tech stuff, then says type mismatch, and
something was not found. NOTE: I am attaching a screenshot with the error.

What is the technique to make this calculation work inside a repeat group?
I overheard someone say that there were a few lines of custom XML?

Thanks so much for any help!

Eric

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Eric,

I'd recommend checking out the thread here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/commcare-users/rxvCL0X7uBI/xi-ZZSXJ5kQJ

In particular, notice the line:

This <setvalue event="jr-insert" ... /> will fire every time a new repeat
begins and should be what you're looking for.

Best,
Will

··· On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:38 AM, Eric Stephan wrote:

Hello everyone -- I have an issue that some folks may know how to solve:
How to use a hidden value to perform a calculation when inside a
repeating group? I get an error when I try to do this.

Here is the story:

I have a form in commcare that is repeating questions for each member of a
household that is being surveyed.

Therefore, first I asked “what is the total number of people in the
household,” stored in a question keyword number_in_house.

Then I made a repeat group titled repeatgroup ... which repeats
number_in_house times.

One of the questions in the repeat group is date of birth, titled dob.

Then, I made a hidden value, simply to calculate the age... call the field
calculate_age ... of course, something like
int((today()-/data/repeatgroup/dob) div 365.25)

And then, for this example, let’s say that for now I just output that
calculated value using a label.

But when I do this, of course, I get an error message... internal error
handling request... a lot of tech stuff, then says type mismatch, and
something was not found. NOTE: I am attaching a screenshot with the error.

What is the technique to make this calculation work inside a repeat
group? I overheard someone say that there were a few lines of custom XML?

Thanks so much for any help!

Eric

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