topic Re: Question in un used Relevant gets empty string? in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Question in un used Relevant gets empty string?

DougBrowning — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 14:33:54 GMT

It is looking like any question in a relevant that is never used gets assigned empty string "". I would think it would get Null but no it is empty string. I have a conversion script that gets tripped up trying to put a empty string in a Int field.

I can program around it but wondering if there is a way to change this. I would prefer Null.

Thanks

Re: Question in un used Relevant gets empty string?

Anonymous User — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:50:18 GMT

Hi Doug,

Unfortunately there is no way to change this and it is the expected behaviour of the app for a question that is not relevant. A null value and empty string are different (as I'm sure you know), and for purposes of editing and using the Inbox in the app, not relevant question are required to behave this way.

Phil.

Re: Question in un used Relevant gets empty string?

DougBrowning — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 16:18:10 GMT

Thanks. I do put in a strong vote to address this however. In the Esri world no response is Null. Good or bad that is the standard that Esri created. If users are forced to use this standard then so should the Esri development team. Over the years internal Esri inconsistencies have caused countless hours of issues. Another example is the editor tracking fields having had 3 different names over the years, and there are two different versions still in use today even.

Not trying to beat anyone up just asking to consider working towards consistency across products.

Thanks