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Survey123 calculation - use domain description

Anonymous User

I'm using experience builder to allow a user to select a point in a map and complete a survey for that feature. In Survey123 web designer I have set up a a type question that uses a calculation to grab a value from the attribute table. This value uses coded domains. Is it possible to return the description in the survey rather than the code? i.e. when a red point is selected Type returns 1, not red.

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mikaël

I don't know, good database practices? 😇

dougbrowning

At that point why not just make the name and label the same? I always do now, no real need for short codes these days.

mikaël

More info on how to actually do this.

You domain values have to be in your "choices" tab:

list_name	name	label
domainA	1	bla bla 1
domainA	2	bla bla 2
domainA	3	bla bla 3

Then in the "survey" tab:

type	name	label	appearance	readonly	calculation	relevant	bind::esri:fieldType
select_one domainA	field_name	field_name	hidden	yes			null
text	whatever	description		yes	jr:choice-name(${field_name}, '${field_name}')	string-length(${field_name}) > 0	null

Anonymous User

The domains in the dataset seem to be set up that way but when I submit a survey response the type field is populated with a number

dougbrowning

Can you just make the name and label the same? I always do this now. It is easier for everyone to understand and no need for lookup tables. Works better on exports also. No real need to use codes anymore.

Anonymous User

Looks promising! I should have specified that I am using Web Designer though - we don't use Survey123 Connect at my organization unless there's a good use case for it.

Vinzafy

Hey there,

This seems like a great case to use the jr:choice-name() function! Details are about 3/4 of the way down in this thread from Ismael:

Survey123 Tricks of the Trade: XLSForm functions for lists

Essentially that function allows you to return the label of the domain instead of the code.

Hope that helps!

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