XLSForm survey editor

⚠️ This is experimental - Please don't expect anything from this app. It has accessibility issues, and probably still some bugs.

Caveats:

• Not tested in production yet. Built for our own needs, might not fit your requirements
• Supports only a small subset of formula functions
• Can edit, but not show all available field types yet
• No support for repeated field groups

Demo

https://sozialhelden.github.io/survey-editor/

Features

• Runs in the browser
• Live synced views (Excel sheet, survey preview, output JSON)
• WYSIWIG editing for XLSForm files
• Basic ODK formula support
• Drag & drop
• Localization
• Displays field dependencies
• Helps debugging formula logic visually
• Includes a React component to XLSForm surveys
• Markdown support for field labels, field hints and notes

Screenshots

Visual debugging for XLSForm / ODK formulas:

Click/tap on a variable to see its current value:

Change field types:

Edit the survey structure:

Development

Available Scripts for developing the app

In the project directory, you can run:

yarn start

Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.

The page will reload if you make edits.
You will also see any lint errors in the console.

yarn test

Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.
See the section about running tests for more information.

yarn build

Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.

The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!

See the section about deployment for more information.

Available Scripts for developing the package

npm run package:build

Builds all variants of the npm package.

npm run package:deploy

Publishes the npm package.

npm run package:test:dev

Runs tests for the npm package source while watching for changed files.

npm run package:test:prod

Runs tests for the npm package distribution code.

Create React App (CRA)

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.

You can learn more in the Create React App documentation.

To learn React, check out the React documentation.