# \[ODK Table\] - Device Id **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [July 30, 2020, 8:38am UTC](https://forum.odk-x.org/t/odk-table-device-id/840 "2020-07-30T08:38:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![elmps2018](https://odkx.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.odk-x.org/elmps2018/32/105_2.png) [@elmps2018](https://forum.odk-x.org/u/elmps2018)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.odk-x.org/t/odk-table-device-id/840/2 "2020-07-30T14:44:52Z")
Hi @Thien_Mai! I don’t think there is an equivalent to deviceid, see: > [@Metadata collection in ODK2](https://forum.odk-x.org/t/metadata-collection-in-odk2/338): > > Hi there, I am currently trying out ODK2 to test its capabilities compared to ODK and other similar data collection tools. While going trough the documentation of ODK2 I noticed that metadata collection, which is done in ODK by adding special question types in the XLSForm-file, is not mentioned. Regardless, I tried to add those question types to an ODK2 application (in case it was simply neglected in the documentation), but the .xlsx file gets rejected by the XLSX Converter due to unknown que… We generally track users in the field rather than devices to achieve a similar goal. This is however an item that other folks have mentioned before, so if you want to add it to the features here on the Forum or raise an issue on github that will be helpful! --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.odk-x.org/t/odk-table-device-id/840)._