topic Re: Survey 123 return a label value rather than name in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Survey 123 return a label value rather than name

BrentKinal1 — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 18:40:19 GMT

I am trying to create a customized instance name for completed surveys and would like to show a label value rather that the name value for a select_one field. Is there a way to either return the label value directly into instance_name properties in setting or to calculate it into a text field or note?

This question was asked previously here: https://community.esri.com/thread/179622 but no solution was given.

Re: Survey 123 return a label value rather than name

JamesTedrick — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 02:17:59 GMT

Hi Brent,

Currently the XLSform function that would support (choice-name) this has not been implemented in Survey123 yet- it's on our list of enhancements.

Re: Survey 123 return a label value rather than name

BrentKinal1 — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:48:16 GMT

Thanks James, Any idea on the time frame in which this might be implemented?

Re: Survey 123 return a label value rather than name

SMauri — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 12:33:37 GMT

I found a workaround for this problem...

Create a "calculate" question with a pulldata function that read from a CSV that contain the same value of your choice list

Sheet survey

type	name	calculation
select_one NameList	question
calculate	question_desc	pulldata('CSV_FileName','Description','Code',${question})

Sheet Setting

form_title	form_id	instance_name
Survey		${question_desc}

And yes...of course you have a little additional work to keep syncro between choice list and CSV....but in this way it works!!

Cheers

Stefano

Re: Survey 123 return a label value rather than name

AndrewHargreaves2 — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:09:24 GMT

Hello James Tedrick‌

I have the exact opposite issue. For some reason my survey is returning label values and not the name values from my 'select_one' list. This is problematic as I include HTML in the label to color code them:

Form:

list_name	name	label
yes_no	YES	<font color='green'><b>YES</b><font>
yes_no	NO	<font color='red'><b>NO</b><font>

Results are recorded as:

Re: Survey 123 return a label value rather than name

JamesTedrick — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 22:55:19 GMT

Hi Andrew,

Can you check the list definition of the feature layer in your content? You should be able to modify that now in ArcGIS Online - see Define attribute lists and ranges—ArcGIS Online Help | ArcGIS for more information.

Re: Survey 123 return a label value rather than name

AndrewHargreaves2 — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 23:08:28 GMT

James Tedrick

Here's what my Labels look like in AGO. If I remove the HTML formatting, it simply gives me plain black text.

Re: Survey 123 return a label value rather than name

JamesTedrick — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 23:12:56 GMT

Hi Andrew,

Just to check, are you viewing the table in the Survey123 web page, or another application? If the former, we need to support HTML formatting in values.

Re: Survey 123 return a label value rather than name

AndrewHargreaves2 — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 23:17:35 GMT

James Tedrick I'm not quite sure what you mean "by viewing the table". The screenshots in the above post are from the Feature Service hosted in ArcGIS Online. The actual survey itself is accessed and completed by staff using https://survey123.arcgis.com

Hope this helps.

Re: Survey 123 return a label value rather than name

HélèneTouyéras — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:20:09 GMT

FYI: I just saw this post:https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2018/11/01/understanding-dynamic-labels-in-survey123-for-arcgis , which states that "choice-name" is implemented since version 3.1.

Can't wait to try it out!

Hélène.

Re: Survey 123 return a label value rather than name

JamesTedrick — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 18:23:11 GMT

Hi Andrew,

I was asking what application/web page the screenshot in your post above (Jan 4, 8:09 PT/11:09 ET) is from - the Survey123 website or another application

Re: Survey 123 return a label value rather than name

AndrewHargreaves2 — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 19:53:15 GMT

Got it. All screenshots are from ArcGIS Online. That one you reference (Jan 4, 8:09 PT/11:09 ET) is the "data" tab of the hosted feature service produced by Survey123.

Re: Survey 123 return a label value rather than name

JamesTedrick — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 21:48:20 GMT

In that case you might want to register an https://ideas.arcgis.com to support HTML content in the table.

Re: Survey 123 return a label value rather than name

AndrewHargreaves2 — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 13:29:19 GMT

Done.

Survey123 to support HTML formatting in values

Re: Survey 123 return a label value rather than name

RuthOla — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 14:32:25 GMT

Can ESRI add the following appearance options to survey 123 similar to enko.to. This will be a lot helpful to display question with similar answer

Re: Survey 123 return a label value rather than name

JamesTedrick — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 21:57:30 GMT

Hi Ruth,

The Survey123 web app supports the label and list-nolabel appearances, though it uses the table-list appearance for the single-choice grid.

Re: Survey 123 return a label value rather than name

NicoleKwan — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:59:16 GMT

Hi James,

The table-list appearance for the single-choice grid does not seem to work for survey connect. Also tried using field-list and label, list-nolabel to achieve similar single-choice grid layout and does not work