Control Open/Close Survey Date Range Programmatically

Question

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

GregReinecke · Accepted Answer

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!

ZhifangWang · Accepted Answer

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.