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Multi-choice options using dropdown list in Field Maps

AndyBates — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 11:59:57 GMT

We are using Field Maps for some habitat surveys. We have scenarios where we have very long species lists (ie 4000+ plants) that are options for the surveyors. It would be really useful to have slick / fast way to enter text (presenting options based on user entry from the list) to populate a longer list of species maintained in a single field. Also the ability to edit/remove species.

This would save significant time and stop surveyors using paper notebooks.

Re: Multi-choice options using dropdown list in Field Maps

DougBrowning — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:00:53 GMT

Based on this comment and all your others today it sounds like Survey123 would be a better choice for you. Have you tried it? We run up to 60,000 species in our lists and it works great. It also does pretty much all of the other items you posted. We use Field Maps on the spatial side to navigate to the plot but then we launch 123 forms from there. Field Maps is good with spatial and 123 is good with forms.

Just an idea

Re: Multi-choice options using dropdown list in Field Maps

schenardi — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 08:21:57 GMT

From a database design perspective it should be a 1:1-table which stores your selected species for the current record. Be aware that only structured data helps you later to really re-use the data e.g. for reports, data-science etc.

Therefore I do not support multi-checkboxes that finally store unstructured data in a text-field (as survey123 does)

But I would support a new control that would store it in a related table (as described above).