Hello,
Every week I'd like to automatically Open a survey on Sunday and Close it on Thursday. I know I can control the survey based on a specific Date range by interactively opening the Survey123 app but could I reset the Date range in the survey via Connect or a script or Model Builder?
Thanks,
GR
Hi @GregReinecke ,
In Survey123 Connect or Survey123 website, publishing a survey actually does two jobs: 1. update the .zip package for the form item, 2. create/maintain the behind feature layer. For your case, only updating the .zip package for the form item needs to be done.
To complete this, you can use Python script to:
1. Download the .zip package file of the form item at /data endpoint.
2. Update the .info file inside the package file.
2. Update the /data of the form item with the updated package file by using the /update item endpoint.
This should save you from publish the survey manually in Survey123 Connect.
The Survey123 Connect solution did the trick. I created some Python to run in the windows task scheduler to update the .info file every Sunday.
But now to complete the challenge I have to publish the survey so the changes to the .info file take effect. Can this be automated?
Thank you so much ZhifangWang!
Thank you. This is the kickstart I needed. Plenty of guidance on the web on how to implement your info. Looking forward to working through it. Thanks again ZhifangWang.
The open/closed setting is saved in the form.json file (settings.openStatusInfo) for a survey published from the Survey123 website or the <surveyName>.info file for a survey published from Survey123 Connect. Technically, you can use a script to update this setting in the file and then update the .zip file at the /data endpoint of the form item.
If your survey was published in Survey123 Connect, another workaround might be utilizing the `format-date(${date1}, '%a')` function to get the day of today. Then set corresponding questions to be always invalid and required or hidden to achieve the goal.
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