{"id":39,"date":"2025-11-19T15:01:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/anthrocollect\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:47:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:47:05","slug":"form-creator","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/anthrocollect\/user-guide\/form-creator\/","title":{"rendered":"Form Creator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Form creation in ODK-X rely on <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">using Excel workbooks and ODK\u2011X App Designer. To be more precise, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ODK\u2011X surveys are defined in Excel workbooks that App Designer converts into JSON form definitions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We created a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1GvS4bFaNb9lNDyGKdsfr1BXNKhTWM2TnzZ0ndRtKGwQ\/edit?usp=sharing\">google Drive document<\/a> with the process for the Excel form creation, the JSON form conversion, and the installation on the tablet . This document will be updated with additional details and information through time.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please, also refer to: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.odk-x.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/docs.odk-x.org\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We provide templates and examples that you can find in <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/AnthroCollect\/AnthroCollect\">our github repository <\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/15PviPXl0mrTo6kNboTq2n6Y1eLv7kRe7?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in google drive folders.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You will need to create folders (<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1GvS4bFaNb9lNDyGKdsfr1BXNKhTWM2TnzZ0ndRtKGwQ\/edit?usp=sharing\">see the documentation<\/a>) with some custom files (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">customPromptTypes.json, customScreenTypes.js customStyles.css) which we also provide in our github repository or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/15PviPXl0mrTo6kNboTq2n6Y1eLv7kRe7?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in a google drive folder.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><strong>CAUTION:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ODK\u2011X and ODK Collect do not use the same Excel coding conventions. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you use ChatGPT or other assistants, make sure you ask specifically for ODK\u2011X syntax. ODK Collect output will not work in AnthroCollect.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Form creation in ODK-X rely on using Excel workbooks and ODK\u2011X App Designer. To be more precise, ODK\u2011X surveys are defined in Excel workbooks that App Designer converts into JSON form definitions: We created a google Drive document with the process for the Excel form creation, the JSON form conversion, and the installation on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25611,"featured_media":0,"parent":43,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/anthrocollect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/anthrocollect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/anthrocollect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/anthrocollect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25611"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/anthrocollect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/anthrocollect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/anthrocollect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions\/172"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/anthrocollect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/anthrocollect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}