topic Re: Hints not showing up for Integer type questions in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Hints not showing up for Integer type questions

MichaelStroh — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 20:41:29 GMT

The contents of my hint column in XLSForms does not appear in my survey for questions with integer types. They show up fine in my text type questions.

Re: Hints not showing up for Integer type questions

Jim-Moore — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 06:11:48 GMT

Hi Michael, could you please share your XLSForm so I can troubleshoot?

Thanks & best regards,

Jim

Re: Hints not showing up for Integer type questions

MichaelStroh — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 14:23:55 GMT

Thanks for responding Jim. I did a little more digging and found out I had a “<” character in the hint which is apparently not allowed. It’s all good now. Cheers.

Michael Stroh

Missouri Department of Natural Resources

P.O. Box 176, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0176

(573) 522-9902

Re: Hints not showing up for Integer type questions

Jim-Moore — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 22:48:18 GMT

Hi Michael

Great to hear you've discovered the cause. The hint column supports some HTML formatting, so the 'less than' symbol could be confused for the start of an HTML tag. However, the '<' symbol should work if separated by spaces or by using its HTML character code < as documented here: Known issues—Survey123 for ArcGIS | Documentation

So 50 < 100 and 50<100 will work but 50<100 will not.

Best,

Jim