Multi-choice options using dropdown list in Field Maps

AndyBates

We are using Field Maps for some habitat surveys. We have scenarios where we have very long species lists (ie 4000+ plants) that are options for the surveyors. It would be really useful to have slick / fast way to enter text (presenting options based on user entry from the list) to populate a longer list of species maintained in a single field. Also the ability to edit/remove species. 

This would save significant time and stop surveyors using paper notebooks. 

schenardi

From a database design perspective it should be a 1:1-table which stores your selected species for the current record. Be aware that only structured data helps you later to really re-use the data e.g. for reports, data-science etc. 

Therefore I do not support multi-checkboxes that finally store unstructured data in a text-field (as survey123 does)

But I would support a new control that would store it in a related table (as described above).