pyxform is a Python library that makes writing XForms for ODK Collect easy.

pyxform is a major rewrite of xls2xform. A new user of pyxform should look at the tutorial spreadsheet in the docs.

Installing pyxform from github is easy with pip:

# If you fork this make sure the link to the repo is correct

# If pulling from Modi Research Group version:
pip install -e git+https://github.com/modilabs/pyxform.git@master#egg=pyxform

# If pulling from the University of Washington version:
pip install -e git+https://github.com/UW-ICTD/pyxform.git@master#egg=pyxform

To make sure the install worked out, you can do the following:

pip install nose==1.0.0

cd your-virtual-env-dir/src/pyxform

nosetests

To check out the documentation for pyxform do the following:

pip install Sphinx==1.0.7

cd your-virtual-env-dir/src/pyxform/docs

make html

(since v0.89)

• Added support for submission_url and public_key settings.
• Added alternative syntax (::) for grouping headers.
• Added new example/test spreadsheets: (xlsform_spec_test.xls, calculate.xls, warnings.xls)
• xls_to_dict in xls2json_backends.py now converts everything (including numbers and booleans) to trimmed unicode values. (This solves the issue with labels not being able to be numbers).
• Aliases added (see *_alias dictionaries in xls2json.py)
• xls2json code can collect warnings into an array and print them to a file.
• Some errors and warnings have row numbers
• Merged jbeorse's base.xls with modilabs's base.xls into all.xls
• Fixed translations for media and hints
• Added media back in
• Added table-lists
• Automatic none option for select all that apply is off by default.
• Adding json_form_schema.json to document the json format. (Perhaps it could be used for validation or form generation at some point).