https://www.caktusgroup.com/tags/ODK/Recent content in ODK on Caktus GroupHugoenWed, 08 Mar 2023 15:00:00 +0000https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2023/03/08/how-automate-google-sheets-odk-central/Wed, 08 Mar 2023 15:00:00 +0000https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2023/03/08/how-automate-google-sheets-odk-central/<p><a href="https://getodk.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ODK</a> is a popular tool for offline data collection with a <a href="https://forum.getodk.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">thriving user community</a>. Like a number of other offline data collection tools, it uses the <a href="https://xlsform.org/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">XLSForm standard</a> for authoring forms. While convenient to author and exchange, authoring the forms in Excel means each iteration of the form must be uploaded to the <a href="https://docs.getodk.org/central-intro/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ODK Central</a> server that distributes forms to mobile data collection applications, such as <a href="https://docs.getodk.org/collect-intro/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ODK Collect</a>.</p>