Trying to enter a long list of options

Question

I'm trying to enter as a dropdown a list of over 2,000 possible answers. However, whenever I do this Survery123 freezes on me. I've tried also pulling it out of a layer in Field Maps (even making the layer public), but have had no success. If anyone has any advice I'd love to hear it, the internet has been no help at all.

KClarkDev_GIS · Accepted Answer

Are you using external choice lists? (either through a hosted layer or through a CSV in the media folder?)

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-blog/survey123-tricks-of-the-trade-external-choice/ba-p/1055534

RobertAnderson3 · Accepted Answer

If you want to query a feature layer for a dropdown list I'd suggest using the autocomplete appearance with search(), otherwise when it tries to load ALL of the options at once it will freeze up for sure.

The other thing I'd say to keep in mind is the maxRecordCount attribute on your feature layer, as the default is 2000 this means the list will only pull the first 2000 rows in the layer.