Use additional 'appearence' attributes?

BrianJBaldwin

The 'appearence' attributes that are a part of XLSForms have a number of additional options that are not in the Survey123 forms (field is locked as well), are there any plans for allowing additional options?  One of the great ones would be the 'year' for the date field.  The other one that peaked my interest is the 'draw' field, that would allow a sketch.  This is probably a tougher one, but would be a huge win in the utility space.

IsmaelChivite

Hi Brian,

we are progressively implementing the XLSForm specification. In this page you will find some details about what we currently support, and what we dont. http://survey123.esri.com/resources/XLSFormSupport/  Anything highlighted in yellow is still pending.

  In the short term, we are trying to implement 'likert' scales. If testing is positive, we may have that ready in early March. We are also looking at enhancing date questions as well.  As you point out, the 'year' option would be very useful, as well as the 'year-month'.   At the moment, with just the calendar control, it is very difficult to go back in time to birth dates for example.

  The 'Draw' appearance is a popular request as well. Some people have also suggested we implement 'annotate', so you could draw on top of a photo.

All of the above are in our 'to do' list. We try to work on them as time allows and prioritizing based on demand.  Below are a couple of links to our external Github repo where you can vote for Date-Year and Draw.

Date - Year appearance · Issue #235 · Esri/Survey123Community · GitHub

Signature Box Expansion to Sketch Box · Issue #168 · Esri/Survey123Community · GitHub

We look at comments like yours in GeoNet as well as the public Github repo and our Tech Support logs to prioritize our work. Thanks for the feedback.

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