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UI to move to any repeat for Survey123

DougBrowning — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 15:16:41 GMT

Ability to move between repeats like you can for pages.

For pages I can tap and go right to any page I want. This is sweet.

But I cannot do this for a repeat. That means on large repeats the crew must tap hundreds of times to review data.

I would like to just tap here and pick the repeat.

Tied into this is repeat indexing where I can ask which repeat I am on. Also being able to have a repeat move to a specific entry would be sweet. BTW naming the repeat bar or adding a color coding is asked for a lot - when nesting repeats it can be really hard to tell which is which.

Thanks

Re: UI to move to any repeat for Survey123

GregDunnigan — Tue, 18 May 2021 12:45:14 GMT

This would be extremely helpful when trying to navigate through Surveys that have a large number of repeat records.

Re: UI to move to any repeat for Survey123

Strahanjen — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 02:30:47 GMT

I agree, this is a much needed feature for folks who might need to review and revise repeat entries while in the field.

Re: UI to move to any repeat for Survey123

DavidRichey — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 18:59:24 GMT

Really nice form.

Re: UI to move to any repeat for Survey123

DanielWebb — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 18:21:40 GMT

This feature on web app surveys would also be nice.

Re: UI to move to any repeat for Survey123

CamilleBeasley — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 22:18:02 GMT

Agree! When entering areal coverages for dozens of plant species, it's not uncommon to get through them all and then discover a typo on one of the species. Then you have to click back through the entries dozens of times. It should be easy to just figure out I need to fix record #14 and go straight there instead of clicking an arrow 14 times.

Re: UI to move to any repeat for Survey123

Strahanjen — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 19:12:37 GMT

Has there been any work on this that anyone is aware of? This feature would be huge for biologists who may record 80 different vegetation types during a survey and then at the end need to go back through particular entries to make an update.

Re: UI to move to any repeat for Survey123

Cyprus_Forest_Department — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 04:56:30 GMT

Currently we have an on-going forest species inventory, and all the crews are nagging that they have to go back one by one, several entries, before finding the one they need to edit.

Re: UI to move to any repeat for Survey123

Strahanjen — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 22:09:15 GMT

The inability to navigate to a particular repeat entry is a show stopper for our field biologists. At the end of a survey they randomly select a handful of specimens to collect for QA, and then need to update the records for the species for which a specimen was collected. This entails clicking the arrows to navigate through all of the observations, which could around 100 entries. They also have to go through the entries to update the cover class. It would be much easier if one could jump directly to a particular species rather than rely on arrows for navigation.

Re: UI to move to any repeat for Survey123

AnthonyJonesRSK — Thu, 12 May 2022 12:11:48 GMT

I'd like to add my support to this idea too. We are also getting complaints from surveyors about the difficulties in navigating between repeat records as some of our surveys have now been going on for 3 years plus. The ability to navigate via a content/index window like for pages or even the ability to search repeat records would be extremely welcome.

Re: UI to move to any repeat for Survey123

BKS — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 19:16:33 GMT

Adding my support for this idea. We have between 50 to 150 repeat records to cycle through before locating the one we wish to update.

Re: UI to move to any repeat for Survey123

Justin_P — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 20:44:57 GMT

YES!!! This would be so helpful.

Re: UI to move to any repeat for Survey123

IanLane — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 20:25:12 GMT

Similar to other folks I have many biologist clicking through 100 records to get to the correct repeat record. Desperately needed in 2020, and still in 2023

Re: UI to move to any repeat for Survey123

EdKnowles — Wed, 15 May 2024 07:05:38 GMT

Same same ... clicking multiple times is a real chore.

Would also be great to have a config option to open on the first or the last record.

For one of our workflows we just want to see the last entered repeat.

Re: UI to move to any repeat for Survey123

JessP_2711 — Tue, 20 May 2025 00:50:55 GMT

I am adding my support to this idea, still very much needed in 2025. We have field teams collecting hundreds of plant records and pressing through them all to change 1 or 2 records is very inefficient.

Re: UI to move to any repeat for Survey123

AnthonyJonesRSK — Tue, 20 May 2025 08:55:06 GMT

It would be great to get a response from the S123 team on this as it's been nearly 5 years since Doug posted this and it's bizarre that this hasn't even been upgraded from open. Is it even under consideration? I've been using S123 for over 8 years now and think it's one of Esri's best products but the user experience regarding repeats is rough to say the least. No way to navigate to a particular repeat, no way to filter repeats in the app, no way to change how repeats are navigated so the bar always appears at the bottom which can be a nightmare when you have nested repeats. I can see that a similar idea around stacking repeats posted in 2017 was changed to under consideration in 2023 but still no change on that either.

@Ismael @ChrisLeSueur @CoryMarietta, sorry to tag you all as I'm sure you get tagged in a lot of posts but is there any chance to get an update on this? I know there is a new version of the app coming in 2026 according to this article so can we expect improved repeat navigation when that is released? Thanks

Re: UI to move to any repeat for Survey123

SamTuijtel — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:34:49 GMT

I concur.

Re: UI to move to any repeat for Survey123

AnthonyJonesRSK — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:51:22 GMT

@SamTuijtel it's not what Doug originally requested but you may be interested to know that improved repeats are coming in the new version of S123, see here.

Re: UI to move to any repeat for Survey123

SamTuijtel — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:35:01 GMT

@AnthonyJonesRSK Boy did I get excited after seeing this page. I don't know how I didn't see it earlier. Thank you! Now subscribed to the early tests.
Sincerely,

Sam

Re: UI to move to any repeat for Survey123

AlfredBaldenweck — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:39:32 GMT