topic Re: Surveys with long repeat fields in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Surveys with long repeat fields

nejibco — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 23:52:54 GMT

Hi All, is it possible to define a dynamic title for the survey?

In the case of surveys containing long repeat fields where the person collection data can get lost by going up and down, the title is a great choice to indicate which particular field he is currently surveying. For example, the title can be defined as follow:

Title = concat('SurveyName:', ${currentFieldName})

The idea is, while collecting data, the user will be able to check from the title which particular field he is collecting.

Re: Surveys with long repeat fields

JamesTedrick — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 18:17:00 GMT

Hi there,

Can you describe in a little more detail the issue? Is the issue determining which field is currently active and the application not ensuring it is visible as they go through the survey? Is the surveyor needing to move around the form manually?

Re: Surveys with long repeat fields

nejibco — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 23:38:57 GMT

Hi James. For example, in the case of household surveys, information is collected for the household and then for each person living in the household (many hundreds of questions for each person). Let’s consider the following survey:

begin group	household
select_one Milieu	Milieu
text	address
…	…
…	…
…	…
begin repeat	person
text	name
integer	age
…	…
…	…
…	…
end repeat	Person
end group	household

Now we suppose that the surveyed household contains 3 persons: Alice (age=18), Bob (20) and John (40).

The idea is that we can define the title as follow:

concat('Household Survey:', ' ', ${name}, ' ', ${age})

then the title will be initially “Household Survey:”

then when collecting Alice information it will be “'Household Survey: Alice, 18”

then when collecting Bob information it will be “'Household Survey: Bob, 20”

etc.

Re: Surveys with long repeat fields

JamesTedrick — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 23:50:13 GMT

Thanks for clarifying- I had taken the request initially to show the question name/label, not the value. I can take this back to the development team as a possible enhancement.

Re: Surveys with long repeat fields

nejibco — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 00:33:38 GMT

Thank you very much James.

We really appreciate it.

Re: Surveys with long repeat fields

nejibco — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 14:08:20 GMT

Dear James

Will this features be supported in version 2.0 of survey123 ?

Best regards

Re: Surveys with long repeat fields

JamesTedrick — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 16:51:51 GMT

Hi,

No, this wasn't a feature we included in the 2.0 release.

Re: Surveys with long repeat fields

nejibco — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:17:02 GMT

Any timeframe for the implementation ?

I think even with pages this feature is still interesting for long surveys

because it flags at anytime the information being collected.

Regards

Re: Surveys with long repeat fields

nejibco — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 22:15:09 GMT

Hi James,

Does this enhancement will be implemented in version 3 ?

I think it will be very interesting with regard to the nested repeats where someone can get lost very easy.

Regards

Re: Surveys with long repeat fields

JamesTedrick — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 23:00:07 GMT

Hi,

At this point, we don't have plans to implement this as part of 3.0; that being said, I have flagged it as an issue to possibly discuss.

Re: Surveys with long repeat fields

Anonymous User — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 00:24:05 GMT

Hi James, any update on this?

In our bird survey form, we have one "bird count" repeat that's pretty basic: select species, enter count

The field team is requesting to see a list of the species w/counts before they submit, to ensure they recorded every species they saw in the 2 minutes they're allotted to survey all the birds in the area. I haven't been able to figure this out, rather I've set the instance name as concat (${survey_id}, ": ", count(${species}), " count records") so they see the number of species records they submitted. But what they really want is to see a list of species.

Any thoughts/advice?

Re: Surveys with long repeat fields

IsmaelChivite — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 01:01:24 GMT

Hi. You may want to check the Aggregation Functions (join) section in https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2020/04/09/survey123-tricks-of-the-trade-repeats

nejib co‌ Katie Andrews‌ The join function, as described in the blog, can be used in an inline note question, to feed the label of a repeat, group or instance_name.

Re: Surveys with long repeat fields

Anonymous User — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 22:57:04 GMT

Thank you Ismael, I used the join (join(",",${species})) to create a read-only text field showing a running list of the species being recorded; the output reads like this: American Avocet, Dunlin, Blue-winged Team.

What I continue to try without success is to use the join function to create a list of a concatenation of two fields ${count} and $(species}, so the result would look something like 10 American Avocet, 200 Dunlin, 50 Blue-winged Teal. I've played with a few ways of doing this but am not getting it right. Is this possible? Thanks.