Good afternoon!
My name is Maria, I work on a research project in Brazil, and we use Epicollect to confirm diagnoses reported by participants in our study.
I am experiencing an issue with the following project: Epicollect5 - Login
I would be happy to provide ‘viewer’ access to anyone willing to help me (and I am very grateful to anyone who can!).
The issue is as follows:
In the ‘view data’ mode, there is a data inconsistency compared to the CSV file that I download with my entries.
Specifically, there are two entries (IDs 65948 and 81343) that I cannot find in the ‘view data’ mode but are present when I download the database.
Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
Thank you very much!
P.S.: Please see the screenshots below:
It appears that the issue you’re encountering with the Epicollect5 Data Viewer not displaying certain entries is due to the timing of when the title was set for those entries. After examining the CSV file, it seems that you designated the title on the ID question AFTER collecting those entries.
Unfortunately, titles for entries that were already collected before you set the title will not automatically update to reflect the new title configuration. Instead, these entries retain their original, auto-generated unique identifier as their title. As a result, any changes made to the title setting do not propagate retroactively to previously entered data.
When using the Data Viewer in Epicollect5, filtering is conducted based on the TITLE column. This means that the entries you are searching for do not appear under the expected title because their titles are the auto-generated unique identifiers.
For example:
- The title for entry
65948 is displayed as 8e7a3a10-c047-11ee-a239-b7533a994587.
- The title for entry
81343 is shown as 51a5b790-c047-11ee-a239-b7533a994587.
Therefore, when you attempt to filter by the titles you expect (65948 or 81343), the entries do not appear because the Data Viewer is looking for the titles based on their unique identifiers.
To locate these entries, you should filter using their unique identifiers:
- Filter by
8e7a3a10-c047-11ee-a239-b7533a994587 to find the entry originally expected to have the title 65948.
- Filter by
51a5b790-c047-11ee-a239-b7533a994587 to find the entry originally expected to have the title 81343.
By filtering with these unique identifiers, the entries will appear correctly in the Data Viewer.
To force an existing entry to get the new TITLE value, you would need to edit and save each entry individually.
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