Referencing a previous answer in next question

[Zak Kaufman]

Hi,
I really love the new xls2xform - it's made life a lot easier! One
issue I ran into, however, is that you can no longer reference a
previous answer in the caption or hint of new answer with the code
<output ref="../fieldname">. When you put that into Excel, the
following code is generated in the XML:

&lt;output ref=&quot;../fieldname&quot; /&gt;

How do you reference a previous field in the new version of xls2xform?
Do I have to go in and edit the code for all these questions?

Thanks and all the best from South Africa,
Zak

[Prabhas Pokharel]

I believe you can reference by using ${fieldname}

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[Matt Berg]

Or you could just put in

../fieldname

You might want to checkout a tool we've been working on called formhub.org that helps you author and deploy xlsforms.

Here is some more docs on the syntax too that might be helpful

http://www.formhub.org/syntax/

Thanks,

Matt

[Prabhas Pokharel]

I believe ${fieldname} is the syntax for that. Something that worked for me on formhub:

type	name	label
text	village	Which village are you in?
select one from phcs or specify other	phc	Which PHC are you visiting in ${village}?

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Zak Kaufman <zachary....@gmail.com> wrote: