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How to apply contingent values in Field Maps

Marokapara — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 06:24:17 GMT

Hi Field Maps community,

I am working with farmers to map out vegetation types on their land.

The idea is that they the vegetation polygons in and fill out the attributes themselves using the Edit widget in Experience Builder.

My plan is to apply hierarchical conditionalities so the attribute filling out process is simple for them. I assume I'd be doing this through Field Maps, which would feed into the Edit widget.

The answers to choose from in subsequent questions would be based off of how they answer previous questions.

The screenshot below shows what I am trying to do.

My arcade level is basic. I understand how to use conditional visibility in Field Maps, so how to make a follow-up question appear if the first question is true or false. I don't know how to control the drop-down answers in that follow-up question based off of the answer to the first question. Does anyone have a link to a good tutorial or can provide some instruction here?

As a side note, I've set up the contingent values in Arcpro and published that layer into AGOL, but they didn't appear when I tried editing it in Map Viewer, when I tested it out in a Field Maps form on mobile, so assume too it won't work in Experience Builder.

I know as a safe and back up option, I can load each of the fields in individually, however would like to avoid that because it will take a long time, and I think there must be a better way to do it!

I appreciate your help. Thanks for taking the time to review my post.

Re: How to apply contingent values in Field Maps

Anonymous User — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:51:24 GMT

@MarokaparaContingent values are not supported in Field Maps (or any other client apps besides Pro) at this time. We expect to add support in the first half of 2022 - it's a very high priority feature. Layers with contingent values authored in Pro that are published will "just work"- there likely will not be a web authoring experience initially.

Re: How to apply contingent values in Field Maps

Marokapara — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 01:30:41 GMT

Ok. Thanks for the update @Anonymous User .

Re: How to apply contingent values in Field Maps

Marokapara — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 08:51:37 GMT

@Anonymous User Hey, just wanted to check in on this. How are we tracking for contingent values being published to AGOL? And using in Field Maps/ Experience Builder?

Re: How to apply contingent values in Field Maps

Anonymous User — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 14:46:21 GMT

@Marokapara There has been a lot of work done in ArcGIS Online hosted feature services to support contingent values. I don't think there are client apps using them at this time though. The Field Maps team is planning to start work on this in January and if everything goes well, it will be available in our Spring release.

Re: How to apply contingent values in Field Maps

Denis_Khrustalev — Wed, 25 May 2022 19:25:02 GMT

Hi Aaron!

Is that right that contingent values support released earlier this month is only for AGOL but not for the Portal hosted feature layers? Any plans for Portal support?

Thank you for your hard work on that!

Re: How to apply contingent values in Field Maps

Anonymous User — Wed, 25 May 2022 19:50:12 GMT

Contingent values are supported in ArcGIS Online and in Enterprise for non-hosted feature layers (e.g. backed by an enterprise geodatabase). They are not supported in hosted feature services on Enterprise yet.

Re: How to apply contingent values in Field Maps

Denis_Khrustalev — Wed, 25 May 2022 22:57:14 GMT

Thanks!

I did a test and can confirm the following:

Contingent values are:

working in Pro for Enterprise GDB feature classes - YES;

working in Enterprise hosted feature layers on Portal - NO;

working on Enterprise Published Service on Portal - YES.

The interesting thing is that I need to have both, defined default values for feature templates/subtypes and Contingent Values to further restrict the data input.

But, the only way I was able to pass the default values for my designed templates/subtypes for Portal Field Maps is to publish as hosted feature layer and use the Classic Map Viewer to manage the default values for each template. When tested publishing to AGOL, it is possible to pass those defaults directly to Field Maps templates with no problem.

Looks like for the Enterprise layer published to Portal, I have to have either contingent values if publish as Service on Server OR subtype/template defaults if publish as a hosted feature layer. Am I missing something here?

Sorry, if this is out of your scope Aaron and I can create a separate topic for a discussion.

Re: How to apply contingent values in Field Maps

Allison_Hockey — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 11:49:27 GMT

Very excited to see this! Cant wait for hosted feature layers to have this functionality as well!!

Thanks Esri 🙂

Re: How to apply contingent values in Field Maps

cmako — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 16:04:11 GMT

I just tried sharing a WebMap from ArcPro with Contingent Values. The map is not working in FieldMaps (I can get others to work fine). Are Contingent Values still not supported in Field Maps or am I making another error somewhere?

Re: How to apply contingent values in Field Maps

Anonymous User — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 09:56:01 GMT

I am also very interested as to when field maps will support this. Can anyone clarify this please?

If I understood from the above posts correctly that contingent values work within an enterprise environment when publishing feature services referenced from an enterprise geodatabase does anyone know what versions of ArcGIS enterprise support this please?

Re: How to apply contingent values in Field Maps

KathyMulcahy1 — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 13:02:39 GMT

I want to know the same thing any updates for 2023? I have my tree collection layer, I can do it in ArcGIS pro for contingent value. However, I can not get to the web application or field maps.

Thank you very much.

Re: How to apply contingent values in Field Maps

LauraTomás — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 08:25:52 GMT

Hi,

Are contingent values support in Field Maps already?

Thanks

Re: How to apply contingent values in Field Maps

HollyTorpey_LSA — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 16:18:09 GMT

Yes, but they have to be created and managed in Pro: What’s new in ArcGIS Field Maps (May 2022)

Re: How to apply contingent values in Field Maps

SarahSaint-Ruth — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 13:03:15 GMT

ArcGIS Field Maps supports contingent attribute values in the form. Once you have published your services from ArcGIS Pro you need to add these fields to the form using Field Maps Designer. Help on how to set this up is available in the doc. You just need to scroll a little to Add contingent field groups to the form.

If Field Maps Designer is new we have a 5 minute video here.

Re: How to apply contingent values in Field Maps

tiztrain — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 06:23:03 GMT

@SarahSaint-Ruth these contingent values can't be published from ArcGIS Pro though right? So in my case I have these templated datasets in a Pro project. The organisation uses these templates in Pro to create standardised forms for Field Maps and Survey123. In your approach, the form would have to be configured every time for every project?

Re: How to apply contingent values in Field Maps

SarahSaint-Ruth — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 13:04:14 GMT

Hi @tiztrain

You're absolutely right — while contingent values are published from ArcGIS Pro, the form itself isn't. That part needs to be configured in Map Viewer or Field Maps Designer after publishing.

To help with repeatable workflows, we’ve recently added a template option in Field Maps Designer. With this, you can:

Publish your service from Pro (including contingent values),
Configure the map, form, symbology, labeling, and pop-ups,
Then save it as a template to the Field Maps Template Gallery.

This means others in your organization can deploy the template directly from Field Maps Designer — and it will recreate the service, form, and map exactly as you set it up. It’s a great way to standardize across projects without needing to reconfigure each time.

See our whats new blog for more info: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/field-maps/field-mobility/whats-new-in-arcgis-field-maps-june-2025

Re: How to apply contingent values in Field Maps

tiztrain — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 04:33:13 GMT

@SarahSaint-Ruth This is a great step forward and could potentially save my organisation a lot of time! Planning to test it out more for implementation asap 😀

Is applying the contingency rules from Pro needed then? I am guessing as long as all those values are part of the domain, that is all you need?

Initially I see that by creating a new web map from a template, the process creates a copy of each hosted service, which is great. As a suggestion for improvement, would be great to be able to have a parameter in which the user can enter a value that would go in-front of the name of the service. Say if the service is called 'Survey Observations' and I entered 'Big Project' as my parameter then the name of the service would be 'Big Project Survey Observations'. Would make it easy to distinguish between the repeated datasets without manually updating and would avoid having the service's name in the backend be something like 'Survey_Observations_8g9a245huhwewe872fd45hwejwhe4rwu4fh'.