Can you edit fields/results of survey123 feature class in a dashboard?

Question

I created a survey using survey123. Then I created a web map with the survey's feature layer. I put that web map into an operations dashboard and I want to show results from the survey. My survey has multiple fields that are just "text" types from the survey. I'd like to hide these fields so that they aren't showing in my dashboard. Is this possible? I also have some html used in my survey and the tags show up in the feature class results. For example, a choice for a selection in the survey is Snowmobile Trail: Alternative 1. and that is what shows up in the dashboard. Is there a way to change this in the dashboard so that the tags aren't showing up?

JohnSolly4 · Answer

Hi all, In regard to Snowmobile Trail: Alternative 1 showing up in the serial chart, Your question is: Is there a way to change this in the dashboard so that the tags aren't showing up? I think there are two possible solutions: 1 - Remove the tags and show the title as plain text (no formatting) 2 - Actually apply the tags so the category labels are bold in the charts. I don't think we would ever try to implement (2) because it's not a great idea to store label formatting within the layer's attribute table. Usually we try to separate the data in the table from how the data is displayed. If you want to make the labels bold. To get our heads wrapped around (1)...the way serial chart displays field names is that we try to use the field alias whenever possible. If the field alias is not available, we default to the field name. I would first check your layer to see if these tags are present in the field alias. Take a look at this layer I just created: http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=5a29d8ae2d33400ca8e62f8051e712aa&view=table#data If I pull this layer into dashboard, I see the tags in the chart just like in your dashboard: If you go into the fields and remove the tags from the field alias (Also called Display Name), it will remove them from the serial chart. If you actually want to make the labels look different on the serial chart, you can change the 'text color' option on the Dashboard Level Settings page which will propagate to the serial chart labels. I recommend this approach as opposed to trying to format things by putting html into field names/aliases. Hope that helps answer your question!

JamieLambert · Answer

Katie Godding You can also Create a View Layer of the hosted feature and configure the pop-up for this differently if you don't want to change the pop-up in your map. Then point to this View for your Operations Dashboard Details. This way the pop-up in the map and the Details can be configured separately but still point to the same source. Just add the View to your map, configure the pop-up, and turn it off in the map. This way you can select it in the Details settings, but not have it pop-up in the map.

JamieLambert · Answer

Hi Katie Godding‌,

The 'note' type doesn't usually get captured with the form. Could it be that it has an attribute 'name' field set? Notes don't need this - though you may get a validation warning (you can ignore it). You could remove the 'name' and delete the attribute in the feature layer.

For any field you don't want to write to the feature, in Survey123 Connect set the bind::esri:fieldType to null and it wont write that feature when the survey is submitted. In your feature layer, you can then delete that attribute completely. Hope that helps!

Jamie.