Registration form

A monitoring survey can have only one registration form. The registration form captures the basic information about the subject of your data collection. In this form, you ask questions about the data point that define your point and do not change over time. When capturing data this is the first form you submit. Once submitted it creates the data point.

In the registration there are two checkboxes which are important:

• Use as data point name
• Use as data point location
• Use as a data point name is shown under the question type drop-down menu. When this is checked, the answer to this question will become part of the ‘name’ of the data point. This will be shown in lists on the device, on the map, and can be used to search data points. By default, this is off. This should only be enabled for one or two questions which will help to identify the data point, such as an ID, or a name. If you check this box for multiple questions the answer to the questions selected will appear separated by a dash ‘-‘ as the name of the data point.

Use as data point location is shown for geolocation questions. When this is checked, the location captured by this question will be used as the main location of the data point. By default, this is turned off.

Looking at our example, the registration form will capture data that will help us identify the well we are looking for when we come back another time to monitor it again. We will use the GPS question as 'data point location' and the question asking for the well's ID as 'data point name'. We will also use the cascade question that asks about the location of the well as 'data point name'. Here are some questions are registration form will hold:

• Location of the water well, GPS and in a text (region, district, village, etc.)
• ID of the well (if defined)
• When the well was built
• Who built the well
• Photo of the well