Multi-selectable lists

Question

Hi,

our organization is working for the agricultural advisory services in Germany and as such, we are providing the advisors with  Collector and Portal for ArcGIS to collect field data on plant pests and diseases.

We are frequently using string fields in the feature classes that are restricted to a list of items using domains. The user then is able to select one item from the list. Now we have the use case that the users want to select one or more items (i.e. multiselect) from the list.

Does anyone come across the same use case and if yes, how did you solve it?

Thanks in advance

CarmelConnolly3 · Answer

Using domain subtypes might help but could lead down the same path of having a static number of questions for your end users. If Esri software can't manage it, is there an alternative way the data can be managed?

Carmel

ManfredRöhrig · Answer

Of course you could repeat the question, but this then is a static number (i.e. 10 items), which is either 'overkill' if I need only three or the user will call within the minute who needs eleven.

I dream of a checkbox list in the like of

Is there any option in using domain subtypes?

Manfred

EDIT: This question has been posed before: https://community.esri.com/thread/75429

CarmelConnolly3 · Answer

I see!

I'm not aware of any other options except to maybe predefine all the possible options from the domain list (this could be very unmanagable), or to have this question repeated over multiple fields and then after data collection, collate these fields together into one field.

The second option is something we've done for Survey123 when using the Other option.

Carmel