What is the best way to collect data from an itemized budget?

  • kimb642
    Asked on July 21, 2015 at 3:21 PM

    I am working on a grant application.

    Applicants are required to submit itemized budget information detailing what they are asking for in the grant.

    I will need an item name, item description, unit cost and total cost for each item. I'll also need a total overall cost of the budget submitted.

    What is the best widget to use to do this?

    All users will have a different number of items in the budget, but they will all need the above information included.

  • Mike
    Replied on July 21, 2015 at 5:49 PM

    Unfortunately, we cannot receive calculation values from widgets.

    You might consider using Matrix field with calculation conditional rules instead. In this case you will need to specify the amount of items/rows (users will not be able to add any extra rows).

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    Then setup calculation conditions, one condition for each matrix row, and one condition to calculate the total overall cost.

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    Calculations can be implemented with 'Update a form field value' conditions.

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    Example for a row calculation.

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    Summing total overall cost.

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    If you need any further assistance, please let us know.