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XLSForm is a form standard that allows authors to create complex forms using Excel. The XLSForm is converted to an ODK XForm, which can then be used across various data collection platforms. The XLSForm uses two required worksheets - survey and choices - to define the form structure and questions. It supports different question types and includes options for customizing questions.

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Xlsform 1

XLSForm is a form standard that allows authors to create complex forms using Excel. The XLSForm is converted to an ODK XForm, which can then be used across various data collection platforms. The XLSForm uses two required worksheets - survey and choices - to define the form structure and questions. It supports different question types and includes options for customizing questions.

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What is an XLSForm?

• XLSForm is a form standard created to help simplify the authoring of


forms in Excel. Authoring is done in a human readable format using a
familiar tool that almost everyone knows - Excel. XLSForms provide a
practical standard for sharing and collaborating on authoring forms.
They are simple to get started with but allow for the authoring of
complex forms by someone familiar with the syntax described below.
• The XLSForm is then converted to an ODK XForm, a popular open
form standard, that allows you to author a form with complex
functionality like skip logic in a consistent way across a number of
web and mobile data collection platforms.
Basic format
• Each Excel workbook usually has two worksheets: survey and choices.
A third optional worksheet called settings can add additional
specifications to your form and is described below.
The survey worksheet
• This worksheet gives your form its overall structure and contains most
of the content of the form. It contains the full list of questions and
information about how they should appear in the form. Each row
usually represents one question; however, there are certain other
features described below that you can add to the form to improve the
user experience.
The choices worksheet
• This worksheet is used to specify the answer choices for multiple choice
questions. Each row represents an answer choice. Answer choices with
the same list name are considered part of a related set of choices and
will appear together for a question. This also allows a set of choices to
be reused for multiple questions (for example, yes/no questions).
• Both of these worksheets have a set of mandatory columns that must
be present for the form to work. Additionally, each worksheet has a set
of optional columns that allow further control over the behavior of each
entry in the form, but are not essential to have. Every entry must have
values for each of the mandatory columns, but the optional columns
may be left blank.
Question types
• XLSForm supports a number of question types. These are just some of
the options you can enter in the type column in the survey worksheet
in your XLSForm:

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