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Can I prevent a value from being submitted multiple times in a repeat question?

LaurenMcGarvey

I have a repeat question in my survey as shown below.

The repeat question is to document the plant species and cover class in a quadrat. There are over 200 values for plant species and many species may be found in a quadrat. Is there a way to prevent a plant species from accidentally submitted multiple times in the repeat question?

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dougbrowning

I think your issue is the Other. That will repeat a bunch of times.

I do this exact thing with species actually. We use Unknown Codes but same concept. You will have to build in an exception for the Other.

I did not test it but I added my line into your form. You could change my exceptions from UNK to Other.

YELL_YCR_BISO_vegetation_transects_sr.xlsx

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S_-_EvanRaskin__GISS_

That is, it worked great in the Survey123 Connect preview. As soon as I got it into the field app I started getting "scripts disabled" messages.

Edit: just realized that I am responding from a different account, sorry for the confusion.

S_-_EvanRaskin__GISS_

The JavaScript function worked great for me once I figured out that I needed to create an "extensions" directory in my survey to house repeats.js. This solved a lingering question that I had from two years ago.

JosephBusalacchi

Hi James,

I have been waiting for a response from another ESRI staff and I am not sure what happened, but I haven't heard anything in days.

I am creating a Survey123 form for collecting quantitative data on plant species. I am having the exact same issue working on a very similar survey. I am trying to provide a warning if the data collector tries to add the same species twice in one plot. I have added the distinct_check java script and the message is always on. Could you possibly explain to me how to organize this code correctly in the Survey123 Connect spreadsheet to only show the message when there is a repeat?

I would also, like to add the following funtionality:

limit duplicate species ${plant_key} in the same plot, either by not allowing or flashing warning
keep a running total of all plants collected for each transect, by species ${s_name} and publish those results in the multiline note element on the belt transect group
limit the user from collecting more than 100% cover ${percent_cov}

I attached a .zip folder and sent it to Phil, see this thread. Is there someway you could help point me in the right direction for adding this functionality?

Thank you,

Joey

LaurenMcGarvey

Hi James,

Thanks for your response. I added the note to my survey and added the extensions folder with the javascript file to my survey content folder. However, now the note about duplicate values is always appearing. Do you have any suggestions?

JamesTedrick

Hi Lauren,

In the survey is a custom function that compares the number of answers with the number of distinct answers and returns true if they are the same and false if they are not. I based it on https://codeburst.io/javascript-array-distinct-5edc93501dc4

LaurenMcGarvey

Thanks for sharing, James. I am not familiar with JavaScript functions, could you please provide a little more detail?

dougbrowning

I posted a way that is clunky but works here

https://community.esri.com/thread/229555-how-to-not-use-a-list-item-more-than-once

JamesTedrick

Hi Lauren,

It is possible to create a check function using an in-beta function, custom JavaScript functions. See the attached sample.

Distinct Check.zip

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