Re: Digest for xls2xform@googlegroups.com - 4 Messages in 1 Topic

[Zak Kaufman]

Thanks guys - that worked like magic!
Zak

On 11/11/11, xls2...@googlegroups.com <xls2...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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> - Referencing a previous answer in next question [4 Updates]
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> Topic: Referencing a previous answer in next question
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> From: Zak Kaufman <zachary....@gmail.com>
> Date: Nov 11 06:31AM -0800
> Url: http://groups.google.com/group/xls2xform/msg/a8c127cfa62d4656
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> 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:
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> &lt;output ref=&quot;../fieldname&quot; /&gt;
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> 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?
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> Thanks and all the best from South Africa,
> Zak
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> From: Prabhas Pokharel <prabhas....@gmail.com>
> Date: Nov 11 11:00AM -0500
> Url: http://groups.google.com/group/xls2xform/msg/d1a234d1bfcf8409
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> I believe you can reference by using ${fieldname}
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> From: Matt Berg <mlb...@gmail.com>
> Date: Nov 11 09:03AM -0700
> Url: http://groups.google.com/group/xls2xform/msg/610b93a452d41eaf
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> Or you could just put in
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> ../fieldname
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> You might want to checkout a tool we've been working on called
> formhub.orgthat helps you author and deploy xlsforms.
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> Here is some more docs on the syntax too that might be helpful
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> http://www.formhub.org/syntax/
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> Thanks,
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> Matt
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> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Prabhas Pokharel <
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> From: Prabhas Pokharel <prabhas....@gmail.com>
> Date: Nov 11 11:08AM -0500
> Url: http://groups.google.com/group/xls2xform/msg/56647e2f1405844b
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> I believe ${fieldname} is the syntax for that. Something that worked for
> me on formhub:
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> *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}?
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