topic Re: errors in calculated concatenated unique ids in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-questions/errors-in-calculated-concatenated-unique-ids/m-p/863719#M26434 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Lynn,</P><P></P><P>It certainly appears that the concatenation occurred multiple times, though I would also expect the data portion to have been repeated as well. &nbsp;I noticed that these were collected on August 10th; a bit after that, a hotfix was released that changed the behavior of calculations when opening surveys from the Inbox (see&nbsp;<A href="https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2018/08/16/minor-update-to-survey123-available-august-21-2018">https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2018/08/16/minor-update-to-survey123-available-august-21-2018</A>&nbsp;) - does this occur with any later surveys?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 19 Sep 2018 16:48:51 GMT JamesTedrick 2018-09-19T16:48:51Z errors in calculated concatenated unique ids https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-questions/errors-in-calculated-concatenated-unique-ids/m-p/863718#M26433 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>We are generating unique sample id's based on the following calculation:&nbsp;</P><P><EM>concat('MA ',once(format-date(now(), '%Y%m%d %H%M%S%3')))</EM></P><P></P><P>It seemed to have been working just fine, until I noticed a couple of funky ids, where the concatenated "MA" is being added multiple times!&nbsp; (see screenshot).&nbsp;&nbsp;Any idea what's going on here?&nbsp;</P><P></P><P><IMG __jive_id="422330" class="image-1 jive-image" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/422330_pastedImage_1.png" /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 19 Sep 2018 16:03:29 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-questions/errors-in-calculated-concatenated-unique-ids/m-p/863718#M26433 LynnBerni 2018-09-19T16:03:29Z Re: errors in calculated concatenated unique ids https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-questions/errors-in-calculated-concatenated-unique-ids/m-p/863719#M26434 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Lynn,</P><P></P><P>It certainly appears that the concatenation occurred multiple times, though I would also expect the data portion to have been repeated as well. &nbsp;I noticed that these were collected on August 10th; a bit after that, a hotfix was released that changed the behavior of calculations when opening surveys from the Inbox (see&nbsp;<A href="https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2018/08/16/minor-update-to-survey123-available-august-21-2018">https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2018/08/16/minor-update-to-survey123-available-august-21-2018</A>&nbsp;) - does this occur with any later surveys?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 19 Sep 2018 16:48:51 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-questions/errors-in-calculated-concatenated-unique-ids/m-p/863719#M26434 JamesTedrick 2018-09-19T16:48:51Z