5.6 Building your form


The following section covers the first basic steps to start coding a form. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of two methods: using your MDC platform’s online form builder and creating XLSForm, an Excel-based format for more advanced survey design. It then describes how to set up some of the most used and basic features of forms. As with the other sections, the online form builder used as an example here is the KoBoToolbox platform.
It is composed of 7 sub-sections: