Hiding a geopoint populated via pulldata

bobwright

I have series of deer check stations where the station's location does not need to be collected by the user, but is needed for later data displays. I've employed the pulldata function to populate the field, but would like to hide it from users, especially because many of the stations will not have connectivity anyway. I tried using type "hidden" and defining the field as esriFieldTypeGeometry, but when I try to publish the form I get an error message that it has 2 geopoints and only one is allowed. In the screen shot below the field of interest (station_loc) is listed as Type string though the ESRI Type is Geometry. The second geopoint  does not show up in the spreadsheet, but does in the schema (last row). Is there a workaround? Thanks.

IsmaelChivite

Hi Bob.  This is an interesting use case. We had not run into this one before.  The reason why you are getting the error is that Connect  is trying to add to geometry fields into the feature layer and this is not supported in the ArcGIS data model.  Once you add a geopoint question, you can't add any more geometry fields within that layer.

I guess it would be handy in this case to have an appearance that  would allow you hide the geopoint question, but at this point we  do not have it. I would suggest that you for now put the geopoint at the end and you calculate the location as you are currently doing. Try making the  geopoint question read-only so the user cannot overwrite  the location you assign.

As for the hidden question, you can either remove it, or if you prefer you can add two hidden questions where you can store the X and Y coordinates separately (as the result of your calculation).