topic Re: Working with existing feature service. Some question types prepopulate and some don't in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Working with existing feature service. Some question types prepopulate and some don't

MikeOnzay — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 03:55:53 GMT

I'm following a pattern described in this post about working with existing feature services. I have one feature service with 35 fields and two surveys. The first survey populates up to 30 questions. The second survey is a copy of the first survey with most of the questions deleted except for about 5 from the first survey and an additional 5. The second survey's inbox has a query set to only pull down surveys where a certain question from the first survey = yes. This is working.

In the second survey I can see the answers to a select multiple question and a select one question (that I have set to read only) answered in the first survey. However, I can't see the values from a note or a text question that was answered in the first survey.

Also, the second survey has its own datetime question and it is not auto populating when the form opens. If I open this form without pulling down an existing survey then the datetime question populates.

Re: Working with existing feature service. Some question types prepopulate and some don't

MikeOnzay — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 16:23:14 GMT

Update: I created a new survey from the existing survey and have been making incremental changes. I kept all of the fields. I'm still seeing that text fields don't pre-populate but select questions do. My purpose here is that I want the second survey to show submitted values but not allow them to be edited.

Result:

The first row is a text field and here I've toggled off read only. The 2nd text field in the 4th row is still read only.

The value for the corrected meter number appears.

Re: Working with existing feature service. Some question types prepopulate and some don't

MikeOnzay — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 17:04:16 GMT

Update 2: I'm finding that I can pull down an previously submitted datetime value but the form is not auto populating a 2nd datetime field I have in the service when the 2nd form is opened.

Re: Working with existing feature service. Some question types prepopulate and some don't

JamesTedrick — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:50:31 GMT

Hi Mike,

Currently, read_only fields and notes don't get populated by the inbox. We will be addressing that in a future release of Survey123.

Re: Working with existing feature service. Some question types prepopulate and some don't

MikeOnzay — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 20:15:15 GMT

Notes are working for me.

Good to know about read_only