topic Phone Number Field in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Phone Number Field

CarlHolt1 — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:33:34 GMT

Are there any enhancement plans or constraint field code (similar code for valid emails via Connect: regex(.,'^(([^<>()\[\]\\.,;:\s@"]+(\.[^<>()\[\]\\.,;:\s@"]+)*)|(".+"))@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}])|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$')) so users can only enter a xxx-xxx-xxxx value in a field for a phone number?

Re: Phone Number Field

DanPatterson_Retired — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 18:05:17 GMT

You will have to wait until arcmap catchs up with Python, underscores are not accepted and supported in numeric literals

PEP 515 -- Underscores in Numeric Literals | Python.org

which basically means your phone number will actually be treated as a number

Re: Phone Number Field

JamesTedrick — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 18:09:18 GMT

Hi Carl,

What you're probably looking for is actually the Input Mask capability - Esri custom columns—Survey123 for ArcGIS | ArcGIS . For example, a North American phone number (+1-###-###-####) can be expressed as D99-999-9999 (the D at the beginning is 1-9, the 9 is 0-9); technically the first digit can't be 1, but for your purposes, it will do. Note that this pattern outside North America can change from country to country, as each country has their own pattern for creating phone numbers.

If you do want to implement it via a constraint check, it is fairly straight forward. The regex function

regex(., '[2-9]\d{2}-\d{3}-\d{4}')

accomplishes that (area codes don't begin with 1)

Re: Phone Number Field

CarlHolt1 — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 19:00:37 GMT

That worked, thanks again for the quick help.