topic Re: tab through data entry on Survey123 form on PC in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

tab through data entry on Survey123 form on PC

JamesKelly4 — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 17:05:33 GMT

Is it possible to configure my Survey123 form so that folks entering data via the PC version of the app can tab through the data entry (instead of clicking through)?

Re: tab through data entry on Survey123 form on PC

JamesKelly4 — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 17:13:41 GMT

Looks like you can tab through, but is there a key that will select the answer that is highlighted?

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JamesKelly4 — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 12:14:44 GMT

Survey123 Geonet‌ can you help me get my question answered? Thanks!

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Anonymous User — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 02:03:52 GMT

Hi James,

The tab key is supported on desktop platforms, however not all question types in the survey can be tabbed through. It is possible to tab text, integer and decimal questions, however other question types that do not have an input box or support the tab key will be skipped.

Can you expand further on what you mean by "is there a key that will select the answer that is highlighted?"

Phil.

Re: tab through data entry on Survey123 form on PC

JamesKelly4 — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 19:58:50 GMT

Thanks Philip. I mean when tabbing through on most forms you can hit enter to select a highlighted response. For Survey123 on PC it looks like you have to click to select a response. I was wondering if there was a keyboard shortcut to select a response. Does that make sense?

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Anonymous User — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 21:54:03 GMT

Hi James,

Ok, understand. No currently there is no way to tab through via shortcut key on enter.

Phil.

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ChrisWoodward — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:20:14 GMT

Hey Philip, is there a way for Survey123 to support using tab on mobile platforms?

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DougBrowning — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 19:14:34 GMT

Yea I second this one. In Filemaker it actually just goes to the next question for you (and will even drop down the drop down automatically for you).

In mobile just enable the button to be Next instead of Done.

Would really help with data entry speed.

Re: tab through data entry on Survey123 form on PC

Anonymous User — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 22:45:58 GMT

Hi Chris/Doug,

In the upcoming 3.6 release we have made some improvements to the input controls (and other supported controls) to enable tab/enter to work correctly on desktops, as well as improving the enter/return key on mobile devices to tab to the next input field. The default keyboard behaviour now uses a custom enter key (on iOS and Android) all the input controls have been updated. There will still be some controls that do not support the tab or enter key, as they do not have a focus box, however this will be something we continue to address in the future.

The next beta builds available on EAC will include these improvements.

Phil.

Re: tab through data entry on Survey123 form on PC

DougBrowning — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 13:36:25 GMT

Thank you Phil! I am glad to see that the UI is starting to get some attention.

Will it just do to the next field or will there be control? I was thinking a new column like fieldorder that you could number 1,2,3 or 100,200,300 in blocks.

Re: tab through data entry on Survey123 form on PC

JamesKelly4 — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 13:41:45 GMT

Awesome! Thanks for update!

Re: tab through data entry on Survey123 form on PC

Anonymous User — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 22:24:36 GMT

Hi Doug,

For now it will just tab or enter to the next input control that can take the focus. Being able to customize this would need to be a future enhancement.

Phil.

Re: tab through data entry on Survey123 form on PC

DougBrowning — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:48:36 GMT

Finally got to test today and it is looking good on iOS. Number fields in Grid now are a LOT faster.

I did notice it will not highlight a default value if it is in there. This means if I have to delete the value before I change it. But this also means I can just "tab" through defaults now. Not sure if this is on purpose or which is better yet or if they can be combined.

Can this be extended to drop down fields? It does not auto tab now since the enter just excepts the input. Not sure if even possible but most of my big form is drop downs.

Thanks a lot Phil this will be huge for the new Grid forms I have in beta!

Re: tab through data entry on Survey123 form on PC

HélèneTouyéras — Mon, 09 May 2022 08:05:50 GMT

Hi @JamesKelly4 and @Anonymous User !

This post is old, but my users had the same question and found some additional answers by testing... So I thought I'd share with the class ^^:

On a PC you can :

TAB through the form to go to the next question ;
SHIFT+TAB to go back to a previous question
while landing on a drop-down menu, type a few very discriminatingcharacters to reduce the list as much as possible
- then click on TAB to navigate through the remaining values (each value will be slightly highlighted as it bescome active/selectionnable)
- click SHIFT+TAB to go back to a previous value
- then click on SPACE to select the active value
- then clik TAB to go to the next field.

I noticed that:

- Date fields cannot be activated by the keyboard (they are simply skipped) ;

- Minimized groups cannot be entered/maximized using the keyboard (they are simply skipped);

- on drop-down lists: if the list returned by the search is longer than what the screen shows, scrolling the list with TAB does not display the active values (selection is effective, but you do not see what you selected). Using up/down arrows does not help. So the key with long drop-down is real, really to start the search with an extremely discriminant set of characters.

with kind regards,

Hélène.