Use the Collect app

You need:

• the access code your supervisor gave you,
• a phone or tablet with a modern browser,
• an internet connection for the first step only.

1. Open the link your supervisor sent you. You can also start from the sign-in page: tap Install the field collection app to install it straight away, or Open the field data collection app to just open it.
2. When the app offers Install Pulseform Collect, tap Install. Some devices have no install button, so the app shows the steps instead:
   • iPhone or iPad: tap the Share button (at the bottom in Safari, in the address bar in other browsers), then Add to Home Screen.
   • Mac with Safari: choose File, then Add to Dock.
   • Android with Firefox: open the browser menu (⋮), then tap Install.

The app now opens from your home screen, Dock or Start menu like any other app, with or without internet. Its icon carries a small clipboard badge, so you can tell it apart from the main platform's icon.

1. Type your code in Access code.
2. Tap Link this device.

The survey or form downloads to your phone. This needs a connection. Everything after it does not.

Note A code works on one device only. If it's refused, it may already be linked to another phone. Ask your supervisor.

1. Tap Open form.
2. Fill in the respondent's answers. You can also add Respondent Details (Optional), such as a name, location or notes. Your supervisor may have turned the name and location boxes off to keep respondents anonymous. The notes box is always there, and what you write in it is always kept. The app doesn't check text formats, such as a phone number pattern. Type each answer carefully: your supervisor can see which answers don't match the expected format and may ask you about them.
3. At the end, choose:
   • Send: the answer is ready. It's sent now if you're online, or waits until you are.
   • Save as draft: to finish it later.

The top bar shows whether you're Online or Offline. You can keep collecting either way.

Tab	What's in it
Start new form	Open a new blank form, and see your remaining limit
Drafts	Answers you saved to finish later, and any answers that were refused
Ready to send	Answers waiting for a connection
Sent	Answers that reached the server

You don't need to do anything special. When your phone is back online, the app sends everything in Ready to send automatically. You can also tap Send all.

Sending twice never creates duplicates. The server recognizes an answer it has already received.

Warning Send as often as you can, whenever you have signal. Answers that haven't been sent exist only on your phone.

If you see Some responses were refused. Open Drafts to see why:

1. Open Drafts. Refused answers are marked Errors, with the reason under each one.
2. If you can fix it (for example, a missing answer), tap Edit, correct it, and send it again.
3. If you can't fix it (for example, you reached your limit), don't delete it. Tap Export as CSV and give the file to your supervisor.

See Collector quotas for what to do when you reach your limit.

Sign out of this device removes the survey and deletes every answer on the phone that hasn't been sent, including refused ones. Before signing out:

1. Send everything in Ready to send.
2. Export anything left in Drafts with Export as CSV.