topic Re: Republished choice updates do not appear in feature layer in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Republished choice updates do not appear in feature layer

vanessagiles — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 07:48:38 GMT

I edited the choices to an existing survey and republished it successfully however these changes are not reflected in the feature layer in arcgis online. What else do I need to do to see this change? (urgent!!) The changes are available in the app but not online.

Re: Republished choice updates do not appear in feature layer

JamesTedrick — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 18:31:52 GMT

Hi Vanessa,

Survey123 Connect does not currently update the domain when republishing surveys. This is partially because if values have been entered that have been subsequently removed, those would not be displayed. As a workaround, you can manually update the domain with the values; see Updating Hosted Feature Services in ArcGIS Online | ArcGIS Blog

Re: Republished choice updates do not appear in feature layer

vanessagiles — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 20:50:49 GMT

Thanks very, James, this seems like the right answer however I am unable to save the changes. I have only changed the choices options for one list but cannot update the service:

Re: Republished choice updates do not appear in feature layer

vanessagiles — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 21:04:23 GMT

Thanks very, James, this seems like the right answer however I am unable to save the changes. I have only changed the choices options for one list but cannot update the service - please see error message.

Re: Republished choice updates do not appear in feature layer

JamesTedrick — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 21:14:13 GMT

Can you provide a copy of the UpdateLayerDefinition text? JSON is highly structured format that is easy to get a bit wrong. you can also try validating at http://jsonlint.com - it's good for checking that the text is valid.

Re: Republished choice updates do not appear in feature layer

vanessagiles — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 21:30:10 GMT

This is the section that I have updated but the errors seem to be from existing code. I changed the code for "Unsure" and added "Mauve". The code saves ok but then if I try adding new point data Mauve is still not showing as an option.

    {
      "name" : "bandLT",
      "type" : "esriFieldTypeString",
      "alias" : "Band colour - LEFT TOP",
      "sqlType" : "sqlTypeOther",
      "length" : 4,
      "nullable" : true,
      "editable" : true,
      "visible" : true,
      "domain" :
      {
        "type" : "codedValue",
        "name" : "cvd_bandLT",
        "codedValues" : [
          {
            "name" : "Make Selection",
            "code" : "ms"
          },
          {
            "name" : "Unsure",
            "code" : "Un"
          },
          {
            "name" : "Black N",
            "code" : "N"
          },
          {
            "name" : "Orange O",
            "code" : "O"
          },
          {
            "name" : "Green P",
            "code" : "P"
          },
          {
            "name" : "Mauve U",
            "code" : "U"
          },
          {
            "name" : "Yellow Y",
            "code" : "Y"
          },
          {
            "name" : "White W",
            "code" : "W"
          },
          {
            "name" : "Blue B",
            "code" : "B"
          },
          {
            "name" : "Red R",
            "code" : "R"
          },
          {
            "name" : "Pink K",
            "code" : "K"
          },
          {
            "name" : "Metal M",
            "code" : "M"
          },
          {
            "name" : "Wild (unbanded)",
            "code" : "Wild"
          }
        ]
      },
      "defaultValue" : null
    },

Re: Republished choice updates do not appear in feature layer

JamesTedrick — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 21:33:00 GMT

Yes, the JSON looks good. You can remove the other parts of the Service definition - the UpdateLayerDefinition requests only really needs what has changed (deletion of items looks more like changing to blank values)

Re: Republished choice updates do not appear in feature layer

vanessagiles — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 21:38:06 GMT

Sorry I don't understand.

Re: Republished choice updates do not appear in feature layer

JamesTedrick — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 16:56:01 GMT

My apologies, I may have mis-read the above comment. Did the update save correctly? You say it saves okay, but then mention the other areas presenting errors. If it still isn't submitting successfully, you can reduce the amount of text being submitted to just:

{
 "fields" : [
 {
 "name" : "<FIELDNAME>", 
 "domain" : 
 <YOUR DOMAIN INFORMATION>
 ]
 }, 
 "defaultValue" : null
 } 
 ] 
}

As opposed to the full definition

Re: Republished choice updates do not appear in feature layer

vanessagiles — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 21:53:49 GMT

The changes to the JSON code are saving ok but when I use the s123 app to select Mauve (U) it is still resulting in an Unsure (Un, formerly U) value online.

Re: Republished choice updates do not appear in feature layer

vanessagiles — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 22:08:49 GMT

The changes in code looked to be saving but I just closed out of the update tab and re-opened and the have not been saved, presumeably due to the other two error messages that appear (pre-existing). I will try and update using only the section of code relating to that choice list.

Re: Republished choice updates do not appear in feature layer

vanessagiles — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 22:26:38 GMT

Hallelujah! Thankyou. Entering only the section that needs updating does seem to work. This is my code:

{
"fields" : [
    {
      "name" : "bandLT",
      "type" : "esriFieldTypeString",
      "alias" : "Band colour - LEFT TOP",
      "sqlType" : "sqlTypeOther",
      "length" : 4,
      "nullable" : true,
      "editable" : true,
      "visible" : true,
      "domain" :
      {
        "type" : "codedValue",
        "name" : "cvd_bandLT",
        "codedValues" : [
          {
            "name" : "Make Selection",
            "code" : "ms"
          },
          {
            "name" : "Unsure",
            "code" : "Un"
          },
          {
            "name" : "Black N",
            "code" : "N"
          },
          {
            "name" : "Orange O",
            "code" : "O"
          },
          {
            "name" : "Green P",
            "code" : "P"
          },
          {
            "name" : "Mauve U",
            "code" : "U"
          },
          {
            "name" : "Mauve U",
            "code" : "U"
          },
          {
            "name" : "Yellow Y",
            "code" : "Y"
          },
          {
            "name" : "White W",
            "code" : "W"
          },
          {
            "name" : "Blue B",
            "code" : "B"
          },
          {
            "name" : "Red R",
            "code" : "R"
          },
          {
            "name" : "Pink K",
            "code" : "K"
          },
          {
            "name" : "Metal M",
            "code" : "M"
          },
          {
            "name" : "Wild (unbanded)",
            "code" : "Wild"
          }
        ]
      },
      "defaultValue" : null
    }
]
}

Re: Republished choice updates do not appear in feature layer

JamesTedrick — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 23:07:46 GMT

Ah- has the survey been republished with the new values? The survey reads the values from the XLSfile, not the feature service.

Re: Republished choice updates do not appear in feature layer

vanessagiles — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 12:59:52 GMT

Yes I re-published the survey and the coded domains are all functioning perfectly. Unfortunately my feature service became uneditable at some point and I am unable to edit my data. Could this have been caused by the republishing? Or by tweaking the JSON code? I have checked all of the editing settings and can't see any problem.

Re: Republished choice updates do not appear in feature layer

JamesTedrick — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 19:27:28 GMT

Hi Vanessa,

Tweaking the JSON code would have been more likely to affect the editing capabilities. Aside form the web page display of settings, you may want to check the admin interface (where you changed the settings) and see if anything would indicate editing is disallowed.

Re: Republished choice updates do not appear in feature layer

vanessagiles — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 23:02:35 GMT

Thanks James. There is nothing obvious to me in the JSON code. There are several avenues I'm considering:

(1) rolling back one choice-list addition that I made yesterday - I don't see how this would affect editing of the feature layer.

(2) error messages that appear from the existing JSON code, prior to any changes I made.

"editingInfo" : {
"lastEditDate" : 1492075506062
},

(3) existing edit settings in the code (looks ok to me):

"ownershipBasedAccessControlForFeatures" : {
    "allowOthersToQuery" : true,
    "allowOthersToDelete" : true,
    "allowOthersToUpdate" : true,
    "allowAnonymousToUpdate" : false,
    "allowAnonymousToDelete" : false
},

Re: Republished choice updates do not appear in feature layer

vanessagiles — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 23:51:18 GMT

Ok. Editing is working again. I am working on my home laptop today, so perhaps it is related to caching rather than coding.

Re: Republished choice updates do not appear in feature layer

Anonymous User — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 16:28:49 GMT

James,

Will this be an enhancement within version 2.0? After some reading that I have done I was under the impression that the domains were updated if you did not change the form schema?

Which is confusing after having the dialog within Survey123 Connect referencing that your data will remain even though we are republishing? IT WOULD be awesome if the survey could be updated to include "New or Additional" Domain values, but not allow for the removal of previously posted domains.

Re: Republished choice updates do not appear in feature layer

JamesTedrick — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 21:18:12 GMT

Hi Mike,

The behavior has not been revised as of version 2.0. In our documentation, we refer to choice lists, which can be stored as domains (but are not required to); the revision of choice lists does not result in a schema change. I've added this request to our development backlog for evaluation & prioritization.

Re: Republished choice updates do not appear in feature layer

Anonymous User — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 11:54:50 GMT

James,

Thank you for the response. Two more question, but does this same logic apply to using pulldata or external picks; in terms of the FGDB Domains not being updated with the picklists?

Last question, when I do go back and update the choices or the comma-delimited text file from the media folder for the external picks; will the answer of the newly added choices show up within the FGDB feature class or related table? If so, then that is an acceptable behavior for me.

I do greatly appreciate the information.

Mike