Bulk uploading data

Have you collected data offline and you want to bulk upload it to your Flow instance? Here are the steps you need to do to bulk upload your data:

1) Publish the data on the app. To upload the submissions made offline to your Flow instance you first need to publish the data. This will make a copy of all the submitted data you have on the Flow app. This copy will be available in a public folder, that you can access via your PC. The data will be available in the public folder for only 90 minutes. Then they will be automatically removed from the public folder to ensure your data is always secure.

To publish data go to Settings on your Flow app and under the Data section hit Publish data. Now you have 90 minutes to complete the next step.

2) Connect device to your PC Your submitted data is now copied over to a public folder. Connect your device to your PC with a USB cable. (For some devices you might need to use the MTP, Media Transfer Protocol, protocol.)

3) Find the folder with submissions Open the file system of your device on your computer. Open the Android folder. Open the data folder. Open the org.akvo.flow folder. Open the files folder. Here you will see the published folder. This folder hold the submitted data in separate zip files and the photos and videos submitted.

4) Copy the published folder to your PC Copy the entire published folder to your computer. You do not need to open this folder and copy its files separately. Simply copy the complete published folder.

5) Zip the published folder Now make a zip file out of the full published folder. This is an important step as Flow will not allow you to import a different file type than .zip.

6) Bulk upload the zip file Open your Flow instance and go to the Data tab. Here you will find the Bulk upload data tab. Drop the zip file here. Once you see a green tick next to your file, your data has been successfully uploaded to the correct form.