topic Re: Constraint not working? in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Constraint not working?

GrattanWelch — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 13:25:36 GMT

I'm new to Survey123. I have some simple constraints in version 3.6.137 as shown below.

However, when I enter wrong data an error is not generated. What am I doing that is not correct?

Re: Constraint not working?

ChelseaRozek — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 15:37:42 GMT

It might be a bug, I'm seeing the same thing in 3.6.137 as well as 3.5.166. Unfortunately, I don't have an even older installer to see if it was working at some point.

Re: Constraint not working?

megan_r — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:26:05 GMT

Hello Grattan,

In your screenshots (where the errors do not occur), have you submitted the survey? Or are these taken before the survey is submitted. In my testing, I am finding that the constraint message only appears after I try to submit a survey with an invalid record.

Best,

Megan

Re: Constraint not working?

GrattanWelch — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 22:56:19 GMT

Hi Megan,

No I did not submit. I assumed that the error would be shown before moving on to another question.

Re: Constraint not working?

ChelseaRozek — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:09:16 GMT

I thought it used to validate immediately, though I haven't used constraints a lot. There seems to be some recollection here as well that it used to be immediate, though they noticed it varied with field type: Survey123 Connect .>now() constraint not working Johnathan Hasthorpe‌, can you confirm the status of the constraint functionality?

Re: Constraint not working?

JamesTedrick — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 19:36:13 GMT

Hi Grattan, Chelsea Rozek‌

As Megan indicated, validation handling was changed in 3.5 to validate when a submission is attempted.

Re: Constraint not working?

leo_SwissGIS — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 08:50:21 GMT

Hi,

Someone recently added an ArcGIS Idea for that:

https://community.esri.com/ideas/17630

Please consider voting it up if you'd like to have the constraint validation immediately, and not only when you submit the form.

Léo

Re: Constraint not working?

ShreyesShiv1 — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 16:58:24 GMT

is there any documentation about how to define Constraints? syntax etc