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6 years 7 months ago #166385 by cbranch
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Hi,

I still have issues with the foto upload:


Number one: the quality of the uloaded picture is quite bad. Would there be a way to improve it?
I took the template from here: www.offlinesurveys.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/camera.lsq

Number two: the image upload runs via ftp-server; hower, in the answer mask of limesurvey I was not able to open the images. Would I now have to write a separate program to combine the images with the survey data?

Best,
Christian
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6 years 7 months ago #166390 by jelo
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I'm not aware that the app is changing the quality of photos. So the quality depends on the setting of the camera app on the device.

I haven't tested the FTP-upload, but LimeSurvey is not aware of the upload location via FTP. So there is no direct access via GUI of LimeSurvey.

I would like to see a deeper integration, since I won't open Pandora's box with FTP access from every mobile device. I don't like that concept. I'm aware of the technical issues, but the LimeSurvey team should be able to offer a way for deeper integration for third party apps. The offline app is a good thing for LimeSurvey too. A collaboration should be possible.

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6 years 7 months ago #166404 by cbranch
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Hi,
other pictures on the device are just fine (1-5 mb), so the camera app works just fine.

In the answer mask of the survey, a link with the name of the file is shown:
example: https://xxx/index.php/admin/responses?sa=actionDownloadfile&surveyid=abc&iResponseId=x&sFileName=xXxXx_123456789.jpg, but the link won't open.

ftp-server was set accordingly: www.offlinesurveys.com/sync-responses-automatically
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6 years 7 months ago #166500 by Joffm
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Hi, I just tried it and this link is shown when hovering the picture in the answer table:


"https: //www.myServer.de/survey/index.php/admin/responses?sa=actionDownloadfile&surveyid=165799&iResponseId=4&iQID=41924&iIndex=0"

As you see it is different from yours.

Clicking the file it is opened:


And I do not see a quality issue:


So, there might be a problem in your configuration, your environment, or, or,...
Difficult to find out.

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6 years 7 months ago #166509 by cbranch
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Thank you very much! The ftp folder was set to the parent directory.
The image quality is same in my case; try to zoom, for my workcase this is rather bad. It is a 70 kb image. Understandable, to reduce the traffic though.
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6 years 7 months ago #166940 by aaskoura
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Hi, apologies for the later reply :)
Inside the camera question.lsq you will find a resolution parameter... "Android.requestCamera(1024, "CameraIMG-{QID}", inputID);" this 1024 is the required resolution and can be increased to 4096 if you desire

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6 years 7 months ago #166949 by jelo
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Is there a plan to get rid of the separate ftp access? What needs to be changed in LS to get everything done via Remotecontrol? A feature request for the LS core developer team possible?

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6 years 7 months ago #167003 by aaskoura
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It is frankly not part of the plan, OfflineSurveys support LimeSurvey starting 2.0, a minimal portion of the users are using the latest LS version.
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6 years 7 months ago #167004 by LouisGac
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Indeed, most users already moved to LS3, and many users push a lot to get the comfortUpdate from 2.73 to LS 3
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6 years 7 months ago - 6 years 7 months ago #167011 by cbranch
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Thank you aaskoura, I changed that parameter. However, the result didn't change.
Question Code:
Code:
<h>Photo 1</h>
<p>Click on camera to create photo.</p>
 
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" id="CameraIMG-{QID}" src="https://fourthwheel-eg.com/RedDime2/assets/uploads/files/b0575-camera.png" style="width: 256px;" /></p>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
    $(document).ready(function() {
        var questionObj = $('#question' + {QID});
        var inputID = questionObj.find('input[type="hidden"][id$=' + {QID} + ']').attr("id"); 
        questionObj.find('.questionhelp').hide();
        questionObj.find('.answer').hide();
        questionObj.addClass('upload-files');
        $('#CameraIMG-{QID}').on('click', function(event) {
            try {
                Android.requestCamera(4096, "CameraIMG-{QID}", inputID);
            } catch (ex) {
                console.log("No response to requestCamera");
            }
            return false;
        });
    });
</script>
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6 years 7 months ago #167012 by aaskoura
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Then it is definitely a device issue. Can you try with a different device and compare quality?
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6 years 7 months ago #167014 by jelo
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aaskoura wrote: It is frankly not part of the plan, OfflineSurveys support LimeSurvey starting 2.0, a minimal portion of the users are using the latest LS version.



I'm not sure I get it. What does LS 2 or LS 3 have to do with the separate FTP upload?
Would LS 3.X offering a way to get images uploaded without FTP?
It looks to me as if LS would need to be changed or enhanced to offer direct upload without FTP?

The offline survey android app is running with LS 3. I seem to misunderstand something about your statement.

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