Instance Name and pulldata()

Question

Can the pulldata funtion be used in the instance name? I found a mention of pulldata in the comments of this blog post.

https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2017/04/24/understanding-the-instancename-setting

But I'm not sure if the context of the comment is correct.

I am trying a concat - concat ("Manhole ID:", ${MAPID}, " Status:" , pulldata( 'StatusInfo','StatusType','StatusCode',${JobStatus}))

Also just try this - pulldata( 'StatusInfo','StatusType','StatusCode',${JobStatus})

I'm getting the same error - "dataLists is not defined in expression" - then it redisplays the instanace_name setting.

My csv is in the media folder, it's very simple:

StatusType,StatusCode
Not Started,-1
Started,0
Completed,1

Thanks!

-bert

CarlosSousaFerreira · Answer

Thanks for this input!

Just used this "trick" to put the choice description of a selected value (integer) to the instance_name variable, using the jr:choice-name(${select_one_question}, '${select_one_question}') function mentioned in XLSForm essentials—Survey123 for ArcGIS | ArcGIS

JamesTedrick · Answer

Hi Robert,

pulldata() functions are not designed to occur within other functions.  The best practice would be to have a hidden question store the value looked up via pulldata() and reference that question in the instance_name.  If you do not want to write the value to the feature service, set the bind::esri:esriFieldType setting to null to have the form ignore that question on submission.