Pass geocoder address from web app to Survey123

Question

I have a web app in which a geocoding service is used. An address is searched, selected, and the associated polygon’s pop-up appears with a link to a survey. I would like the address to prepopulate the survey in a text field, as well as the geopoint to auto-zoom to that address as well. I don’t know how to pass data to a survey that does not already exist in a feature layer. Thanks for your help!

ahargreaves_FW · Answer

I rigged up Experience Builder as follows:

* The search widget searches for addresses and selectes the first candidate
* The selected features attributes are used for the embed widget
* The embed widget uses URL parameters to prepopulate a survey with the attributes of the selected feature

There is a glitch though. I have a geocode question in my survey which takes the address (passed in from the selected feature), runs a geocode, returns the XY and centers the new survey point. However, as the address is technically PRE-populated before the survey is even created the geocoder fails to fire. Manually editing the address, even to just remove a single address number and replace with identical, then causes the geocoder question to wake up, fire and return the XY centering the survey point. Additionally I can trigger if off any other question which is NOT pre-populated.

There is a recalculate URL parameter that I’m using to try to get the geocoder question to fire after the survey is created but it dens't seme to work. I'm using the syntax:

“&recalculate=field: ADDRESS_HOLDER”

If anyone can offer some advice on how to get the geocoder question to fire with PRE-populated values I would appreciate it.

BarbaraWebster1 · Answer

@Elizabeth_Burniston Calculations and defaults would attempt to populate the geoshape geometry, so it would be expected that passing point coordinates to a geoshape question wouldn't do anything. The center URL parameter would be the best approach to centering the map dynamically.

Elizabeth_Burniston · Answer

Thanks again @BarbaraWebster1 - I'm not accomplished with Arcade by any means, but I will use what you provided as a template to see what I can do. Meanwhile, it is an information lookup app, so searching for an address is required. If their address falls in a certain area, then they are led to the survey. While it may be redundant, they can certainly enter their address again (text field - geoshape appearance) and ideally, I can put in the calculation to auto-zoom the map where they are to digitize their own polygon. So, I did just that but the map did not auto-zoom. I did some research and it seems this has been a bug over the years?