problem with forms based on multiple occurring record

[Keith Tomlin]

Hi there - In my application, each case will have a single household record and then up to 5 records for women who live within the household. The household record will have _ID items (as each household will only occurs once) and each woman record will also have a woman ID, although this is not an actual ID item because, as I understanding it, these cannot be placed upon multiple-forms. The woman record will have about 600 questions, and at the moment they are all in the same record. I would like to place these women record items onto several forms. However, I find that if I place the first 10 items of the woman record onto screen 1 and the next 10 items on screen 2, I find that during data entry I get the screen 1 five times, then screen 2 five times, rather than screen 1 & screen 2 for the first occurrence, screen 1 & screen 2 for the next occurrence, etc. How can I set this so that I can set the screens to appear for one occurrence at a time?

Many thanks

Keith

[Gregory Martin]

Implementing something like you ask for is not possible in a one-level application unless you use write a lot of obnoxious logic. We've talked about adding it as a feature, but even if we do, that feature won't be out for some time. Using two levels may solve your problem. The questions for women will be on the second level, and they will occur in the way that you want, but we generally advise against using two-level applications.

You might be better off implementing the 600-question woman survey on either external forms, or as an external application. The downside is that you'll have a data file for each woman, rather than it being incorporated in one file, but you can always remedy that later by concatenating everything together. If I were you, I'd have one data entry application for the household details, and then that application could launch separate data entry applications for each woman.

[Keith Tomlin]

Hi Greg - thanks for your reply. The critical thing to having separate applications for households and women would be to be able to carry the household ID numbers into the women files - this would be essential. Would it be possible to carry ID numbers between applications? I really want to avoid any ID numbers being entered by hand.

Thanks

Keith

[Gregory Martin]

You can pass the parameters from one application to another by using the Parameter= attribute in the PFF. See how it's done in this menu system:

http://www.csprousers.org/downloads/wor ... tiMenu.zip