topic Re: survey response pre-population question in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

survey response pre-population question

johnbrosowsky — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 16:38:09 GMT

Is it possible to pre-populate survey responses for an individual based on responses from the last time the person took the survey? For example they take the survey one year, and then take the same survey the next year. For a lenghtly survey it would be useful to pre-populate an indivudual's survey with their individual responses from last year.

Similarly for a really long survey, is it possible to allow the individual to partially compelte a survey, and then come back another day to complete it, in case they have to research some answers?

In my scenario I am authoring the survey using XLSForms, and my users take the survey in the 3.0 web app.

Thanks!

Re: survey response pre-population question

JamesTedrick — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 12:29:23 GMT

Hi JB,

For the periodic revisiting - how are the users accessing the form? There are a few ways to create a hyperlink that would open and fill in previous data filled in.

Currently, the web form does not support editing an existing feature, so partial completion/revisit is not supported.

Re: survey response pre-population question

johnbrosowsky — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 19:59:10 GMT

Hi James -

In my case each user will be sent a URL to access their survey. It would be possible to provide a unique URL for each user. I am interested to hear about ways to create a hyperlink that would open and fill in previously entered data.

Thanks!

Re: survey response pre-population question

Anonymous User — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 21:00:14 GMT

John,

I have had success within the field app using the Survey123 Custom URL schema to pass information into a form, but I accomplished within the field app. However, I think you can use the same method and just apply the code for opening the web browser based form.

A great resource would be this article - https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2016/07/30/understanding-survey123s-custom-url-scheme toward the end of the article it gives reference to being able to invoke the Survey123 web app or website through a simple URL. The section is titled "Invoking a Custom URL Scheme programmatically".

Hopefully this is helpful.

Good luck,

Mike

Re: survey response pre-population question

Anonymous User — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 21:21:18 GMT

I was curious and found this article also on opening a Survey123 form within a web browser based on a URL link.

https://community.esri.com/thread/207742-custom-url-for-survey123-web-form

Re: survey response pre-population question

johnbrosowsky — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 19:17:26 GMT

That is very helpful, but think it would not work well for pre-populating a very long survey. Also there could be security concerns over sending out a URL with confidential values included in the URL. Is source code for the web survey form available?