topic Re: survey123 time field - select seconds not just hours/minutes in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

survey123 time field - select seconds not just hours/minutes

GeomaticsPublisher — Sun, 26 May 2019 10:52:29 GMT

Hi,

I'm creating a survey123 form using survey123connect (3.4 beta) and I need to be able to drill down into seconds as an option for data entry in a time field. As default the user can only select the hours and minutes for a time field and I can't find anyway of changing this. Does anyone know if this is possible?

thanks

Re: survey123 time field - select seconds not just hours/minutes

JamesTedrick — Tue, 28 May 2019 21:24:17 GMT

Hi,

Seconds capture is not directly supported. It is possible to have a form with:

1) A Time/DateTime question to record information to the minute

2) An integer field to record the seconds

3) A calculate question that adds the first to questions together

- If using a time question (which stores text), use concat() to add it to the time string

- If using a datetime question, add (# of seconds*1000) to the datetime question

Re: survey123 time field - select seconds not just hours/minutes

FRSadmin — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 02:41:50 GMT

Hello James,

Is this feature still unsupported? Many natural and wildlife surveys need seconds and it would be very helpful to have in one location

Re: survey123 time field - select seconds not just hours/minutes

AlexSteiner — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 16:01:39 GMT

I second FRSadmin's comment - it would be very beneficial to have seconds and milliseconds included in the DateTime question type.

Thanks!

Re: survey123 time field - select seconds not just hours/minutes

JamesCrandall — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 19:43:12 GMT

Hi,

We were trying to find a way to use the seconds value from a datetime for other use (concatenate into another value) and thought you may find this useful. The simplest method was to use the scripts component accessible in Connect and then added the pulldata functionality to acquire the seconds from the script.

Open the survey in Connect and add a new script:

Save it as getSeconds.js
In your XLSForm field, access the seconds value by applying pulldata function like so,

string(pulldata("@javascript","getSeconds.js","getSeconds"))
The Javascript should also pad any digit 1-9 with a leading zero.

Re: survey123 time field - select seconds not just hours/minutes

MaryGraceMcClellan — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 20:38:44 GMT

This is really cool -- Do you just add the seconds to the UTC time recorded by Survey123? I'm trying to do a start time/end time field so I can calculate elapsed times, but I'm only getting minutes so I'm going to try to use your script to incorporate seconds.

Re: survey123 time field - select seconds not just hours/minutes

Lorikeet — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 02:39:09 GMT

Hi James,

I'm responding a couple of years later and hoping you're still active here!

I have set the script up, and now I have applied the pull data function to the Calculation field of my 'time' question - is this correct? How do I get the seconds to display now? Or does this need to be a separate question outside of 'time'.

I am using time alone, rather than datetime.