topic Is it possible to have conditional drop downs? in ArcGIS Collector Questions

Is it possible to have conditional drop downs?

JerryGarcia1 — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:42:40 GMT

I am familiar with setting up collector with drop downs by leveraging the subtypes and domains but is it possible to have a conditional drop down. For example if I had a list manholes, some are owned by the state the other the city. When a worker comes to inventory the manhole with collector is it possible to have the first question be "Is the manhole owned by the state?", if the answer is yes the rest of the questions will be available if the answer is no then the rest of the of the questions are grayed out or just not there.

Re: Is it possible to have conditional drop downs?

RussRoberts — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:24:57 GMT

This is currently not possible in Collector today but it is something we want to add to the app.

Re: Is it possible to have conditional drop downs?

JerryGarcia1 — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:29:18 GMT

Thanks for the info Russell.

Re: Is it possible to have conditional drop downs?

BradySmith — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:43:02 GMT

The concept of conditional drop down fields is something that my clients ask about on a regular basis. I am glad that ESRI is considering the concept.

Re: Is it possible to have conditional drop downs?

CharlesPhilbrick — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 22:51:44 GMT

Thanks for speaking up here, Russell. I am interested in this capability as well. I don't want to rush you -- but is there any way you could have this working by the end of the week?

Re: Is it possible to have conditional drop downs?

RussRoberts — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 17:25:48 GMT

Haha If it wasn't Dev Summit next week totally......

How would you be using this in your field projects?

Re: Is it possible to have conditional drop downs?

RodneyCarlson — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 02:19:53 GMT

Antecedent variables are the bane of collecting field data. There is always going to be the unknown. The problem I have with my staff is one of two things 1) The field technicians do not collect the data as they see it as wrong or does not apply. 2) the field technicians do not want to be bothered with taking the extra time in entering a manual entry into collector when they are pressed by other managers to meet a quota.

Re: Is it possible to have conditional drop downs?

CharlesPhilbrick — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 19:43:16 GMT

Well, there are all kinds of ways that this would be helpful. Most immediately, we have a group of people using collector to perform a sign structure inventory on our trail system. I would like it if they were presented with one field: 'Sign Structure Type' and then the values available in the subsequent field, 'Sign Type' were dependent upon the value entered in the first.

While I'm sounding off about what I'd like out of Collector, we are eagerly awaiting related tables support from the ios app!

Re: Is it possible to have conditional drop downs?

RussRoberts — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 20:39:04 GMT

10.3 Collector iOS rolled out this week!

Re: Is it possible to have conditional drop downs?

CharlesPhilbrick — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 20:41:48 GMT

Oh! Pardon me then, I've got to go update some apps.

Re: Is it possible to have conditional drop downs?

AndrewZimba1 — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:33:06 GMT

Any action on this? Last reply was three years ago. As far as I can tell, conditional logic is all that needs to be implemented to have collector completely replace ArcPad. Russell, please contact me if you would like to discuss why this is so important.

Re: Is it possible to have conditional drop downs?

RussRoberts — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 16:36:44 GMT

I no longer work specifically on the Collector product, currently working on AGOL projects and web 3D products. Smarter forms are coming: https://community.esri.com/community/gis/applications/collector-for-arcgis/blog/2017/09/06/the-aurora-project