Setting up wildlife crime tracker

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Hi,

I’m setting up a wildlife crime tracker to replace our paper-based system for better efficiency and accuracy. I managed to set up the screens and they ask what I need and follow each other well. But I don’t understand the ‘Result Element’ part, and I can see on my reports that I have 10 repeated rows of information for every one time I input data. Which I think is because I don’t really understand how the elements work and just named the elements after each screen title. Example 2.png

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Hi Steph,

I normally use Result Element as a variable where you store the current value of a sighting in a concrete screen. I like to use the name of the screen in caps and the name of the result element in lower case. Later when I display the sightings in the query editor I have always my result element on top of each columns and allows me to filter for a concrete value or element for example. If you don’t use it you may have in the header of the columns values of different elements…

Hope it helps!.

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So if I leave the Result Element as blank, when I fill out the information it comes up with text not being filled and there’s a little yellow warning triangle next to ‘result element’. Do I need to fill out the result element to avoid this error message?

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Never mind! Fixed my issue, got the save button mixed up with the next button so I was saving every screen instead of just putting next!

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Text control needs result element, you have right.
Cheers Holger