topic Re: Survey 123 Conditionally Required Question in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Survey 123 Conditionally Required Question

BrentKinal1 — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 17:52:27 GMT

Is there a way to make a question in survey conditionally required? I would like a question to be required if a previous group of questions are answered a certain way, otherwise I would like the question to be optional. I realize I can expose or hide questions based on previous answers but haven't found any documentation demonstrating the the ability to make a question required if a previous condition is met.

The idea would be something like this.

Question 1:

Question 2:

Animal
Vegetable
Mineral
Other

Question 3:

if Question "1" = Yes and Question 2 = "Other", then answer to Question 3 is required, if different answers to questions 1 & 2 the surveyor has the option to answer question 3 but it would not be required.

Re: Survey 123 Conditionally Required Question

BrentKinal1 — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 16:49:36 GMT

A work around for this can be found here: Make a question required conditionally based on answer to previous question

Re: Survey 123 Conditionally Required Question

IsmaelChivite — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 19:58:27 GMT

Support for expressions in the required column has been implemented.

Attaching an example showing how this can be done with version 3.11 and newer.

type	name	label	required
select_one yes_no	nextrequired	Make next question required?
text	comments	Comments	selected(${nextrequired},"yes")

Re: Survey 123 Conditionally Required Question

AnnaScholl — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:33:22 GMT

It seems unable to accept this solution?

Re: Survey 123 Conditionally Required Question

EJCAdmin — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 09:55:38 GMT

Thanks,

This runs perfectly for me. Just had to modify for my specific survey first.

Re: Survey 123 Conditionally Required Question

SarahRijneke — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:59:29 GMT

Is it possible to achieve this in the survey123 web designer? I would like an Image question to be optional in an inspection survey. If the answer to a previous question is in need of repair then it would need to be required.