topic Re: Delete/Hide repeat_count fields on feature service in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Delete/Hide repeat_count fields on feature service

deleted-user-EpRzjYvkmULR — Fri, 24 May 2019 17:39:17 GMT

Is it possible to remove the repeat_count field that's created when publishing a survey containing a repeat_count?

I deleted these manually from my feature service on AGOL, but when republishing the survey from Survey123 Connect, it makes me add the fields again before I can publish. I would like to remove these to clean up my attribute tables on some of my more complicated surveys. I can set the bind::esri:fieldType to null for my note/calculate fields, but it doesn't seem to work for repeat groups.

I can't seem to find documentation on this anywhere, but I apologize if this has been covered elsewhere. Thanks!

Re: Delete/Hide repeat_count fields on feature service

JamesTedrick — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 20:05:28 GMT

Hi Kade,

At this time the '_count' fields are necessary when using a calculation in the repeat_count field. It can be worked around by placing the calculation in another field (with fieldType set to null) and setting repeat_count to that question without further calculation.

Re: Delete/Hide repeat_count fields on feature service

deleted-user-EpRzjYvkmULR — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 13:41:22 GMT

Perfect. Thanks for the workaround!

Re: Delete/Hide repeat_count fields on feature service

BamJam — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 23:25:43 GMT

James Tedrick,

Can you please provide an xlsx example of the workaround that allows for limiting the repeat count without having to have the _count field in the feature service referenced in the submission url? I would like to limit my repeat to 1, but am not able to avoid the _count field being required in the feature service. Thanks!

Re: Delete/Hide repeat_count fields on feature service

JamesTedrick — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 21:32:42 GMT

Hi Brandon,

Unfortunately, a subsequent update has prevented this workaround from working.

Re: Delete/Hide repeat_count fields on feature service

BamJam — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 22:14:35 GMT

That explains the _count field being generated by S123 Connect regardless of what I enter in the repeat_count field. In an attempt to publish my survey, I have created the necessary _count field in my feature service. However, the field name is all uppercase in my Oracle db and thus the feature service. This is preventing my survey from publishing due to the _count field that is automatically created by S123 Connect being all lowercase:

Is there a way to control the case of the _count field that is created by S123 Connect? Or, ignore case of the fields in the feature service when publishing? Btw, I have tried to change the case of the field in my Oracle db, but it will not allow me to do so.

Thanks,
Brandon

Re: Delete/Hide repeat_count fields on feature service

TedChapin — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 15:39:12 GMT

Is there a workaround that works around the workaround not working?