Survey123 App: Autocomplete Search with Over 2000 Records

Question

I am looking for suggestions on how to configure the autocomplete search appearance for a select_one question against a feature service with large record count.  I am trying to query a dataset with 10k+ records and only getting the first 2000 records, which is the max record count for the ArcGIS Online hosted polygon feature layer.  It appears Survey123 accounts for this in the web form, but not the app.  Please see examples below.

Does anyone have thoughts about getting this to work in the app?

Survey123 Web form: as the user types, the feature service is queried dynamically and the choice is found:

Survey123 App:

It appears the picklist queries once initially, gets the first 2000 records, then does not query again based on user input.  This makes functionality unusable in the app, as user can only ever query the first 2000 records... scrolling to the bottom of the list, choices end in the c's in this example.

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions!

ArthurSmith2 · Answer

Hey @BarbaraWebster1 and @JamesTedrick, any thoughts on this behavior difference between Survey123 web and app?

ArthurSmith2 · Answer

Thank you for the input @Neal_t_k!

The data used for this choice list is land subdivisions in rural areas and not well structured to do a cascading select like you would for state>county>city>subdivision.

However your thought on using location/buffers could work well for this workflow.  Something like filter the list to records within 1 mile of current location (or location of point dropped at current location in previous question) could work well!  We'll do some investigation...

Neal_t_k · Answer

Can you add a filter from a previous question to narrow the results?  Returning that many results will likely cause lags in loading times.

You can add buffers based on location to narrow results or if users enter something like a city in a previous question that could be used to filter the results that match with the city.

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-blog/dynamic-choice-lists-using-search-appearance/ba-p/1060838