Forms and data collection

Design your own questionnaires, collect answers online or offline, and take the data out in the format your analysis needs.

• Building a formCreating a form or importing one from XLSForm, the twenty one question types, what you can set on each question, sections and repeating sections.
• Skip logic and scoringShowing a question only when it applies, scoring a response, and comparing a pre test with a post test.
• Publishing a formDraft, Active and Closed, and what publishing a version actually does.
• Public form linksSharing a form with people outside your organisation, and protecting it with an access code.
• Offline collectionGetting forms and respondent lists onto a device, collecting with no connection, and how responses are sent when you are back online.
• ResponsesThe Records tab, the states a response can be in, reviewing and approving, setting a response aside, and what cannot be changed afterwards.
• Statistical exportsSix downloads: Excel or CSV, SPSS, Stata, the codebook and the computed metrics, and the choices the export dialog offers.
• XLSForm referenceA lookup reference for building a workbook: what CommonLynk reads from each sheet, every column and key, what is not supported, and where it differs from ODK, KoboToolbox and SurveyCTO.