Use Bullet Points instead of Commas in 'Select Multiple' selected choices output

Question

hi,

I want to see my selected choices separated by Bullet Points instead of Commas (Selected choices attached).

Any suggestion or hint will be greatly appreciated.

abureaux · Answer

For a select_multiple, there is no way to change the display behaviour in the app. It will always be a comma separated list. You can always submit an idea to the Ideas area.

Be sure to drop a link here if you do. I'd like to vote for it, as select_multiple can get way too messy, and this would be a good solution.

Reuben · Answer

Hi Chris,

Possible for this to show in the survey?

ChristopherCounsell · Answer

For select_multiple questions you should have the raw data entry (choice names) meet the requirements.

https://doc.arcgis.com/en/survey123/browser/create-surveys/quickreferencecreatesurveys.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_8ED1E0D010424885A425D6BEB893216A

Question names and choice names should not contain special characters, such as spaces, commas, hyphens, parentheses, brackets, or characters such as $, %, and #. It is important that choice names for Multiple select questions do not contain spaces or commas.

So your raw data being submitted into this question won't appear nice, but will function correctly when being submitted (or later edited). You can't really change the way this data is stored directly.

I want to see my selected choices separated by Bullet Points instead of Commas (Selected choices attached).

You could process the data within the survey but it depends on what and when you want to see the 'bullet list'. When do you want to see this? Within the survey? After submission but immediately? Where? A report, the Survey123 website, a web app, the downloaded data?

e.g. you could use JavaScript function within Survey123 form to process the comma-separated values from the multiple select question and return them as html driven bullet points. This would look OK in your survey form but then exporting to excel it'd be a mess of html tags.