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Survey123 Javascript Function on Public Surveys

DanielStoelb — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 08:53:17 GMT

We are looking at creating a public survey that would pre-populate information based upon user location selection in order to gather and update data on a particular service, similar to the pulldata from another service idea (https://community.esri.com/ideas/12910 ). However, we are wanting this functionality for public surveys for a specific project we're working on as it relates to fire recovery response and pre-pulling data on the backend to populate taxlot information about the property affected.

Re: Survey123 Javascript Function on Public Surveys

SFM_WillBrewer — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 23:45:00 GMT

I agree. This functionality would have a ton of applications. I'm a little surprised it has not yet been implemented.

Re: Survey123 Javascript Function on Public Surveys

DanielStoelb — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 15:36:55 GMT

FYI - this has been logged as an enhancement:

ENH-000135167: Enable JavaScript function on public surveys. Use the Survey123 pulldata from an existing feature service option for public surveys.

Re: Survey123 Javascript Function on Public Surveys

JeffMay2 — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:06:01 GMT

Where can we find additional info on this enhancement (ENH-000135167)? Any updates on if/when this capability will be added?

Re: Survey123 Javascript Function on Public Surveys

ChelseaRozek — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:25:04 GMT

@JeffMay2 At the 2021 ESRI UC, Ismael said that it was not going to be possible due to security considerations. Users will need to be logged in for custom JS functions. They are looking into alternatives.

Re: Survey123 Javascript Function on Public Surveys

StanislausCounty — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 19:43:05 GMT

I think it has more to do with Esri wanting to get users onto their platform with an account and fear of lawsuits rather than 'Security Considerations.' If you've set up your scripts correctly and your data is already publicly accessible there isn't really any security risk for the user.

Re: Survey123 Javascript Function on Public Surveys - Status changed to: Closed

JamesTedrick — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 19:40:29 GMT

As mentioned in previous comments, the security team raised concerns with implementing this feature as it can potentially lead to untrusted JavaScript running on a user's device or browser (this was the reason for the original design limitation of requiring a user to be in the same organization as the form's author that currently exists).

Re: Survey123 Javascript Function on Public Surveys

PJ — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 15:35:02 GMT

Hi @JamesTedrick @DanielStoelb @ChelseaRozek ,

I am using pulldata function (pulldata("@json", ${jsonresponse}, "weather[0].main") ) to pull weather data from https://home.openweathermap.org/.

I plugged the weatherkey code (32 characters) into the default field in the Survey123 form to pull weather data. Its working fine in survey123 app but its not working on Survey123 website. I changed the survey from Public survey to private, still no luck.

I will appreciate if you could help me.

Here are the screen shots

Thanks

Re: Survey123 Javascript Function on Public Surveys

StanislausCounty — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 19:02:10 GMT

We've run into this a couple of times; use the inspect tool in your web-browser to see what, if anything, is failing. When this has happened to us it had to do with how tokens were being handled or how the attribute names were entered. In the attribute case the names had to exactly match the attribute column names and not the alias (e.g. exact capitalization). For whatever reason the app was able to tell what we were referencing but the browser version was not.