topic Re: pass data to Survey123 note or hidden field not working in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

pass data to Survey123 note or hidden field not working

danbecker — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 18:54:33 GMT

ArcGIS online popup config, custom attribute display.

I included a link to survey123 in the correct format, but I cannot pass data from the clicked feature to any survey123 fields that are type: "note" or "hidden".

&field:hidden_name={featureService_fieldName}

I checked the schema field type of the hidden and note field and its string, this matches the feature service attribute type.

passing data to a survey123 type: "text" field works fine, but it has to be editable, i.e. read_only = "".

I'm just trying to link clicked features to forms, WITHOUT the field being editable in survey123. If you pass a string to a type: "text" field in survey123 it works, but what happens when the user edits that field...you no longer have joinable data.

This is why I wanted to pass a value to a hidden or non-editable field but I just cant....

any ideas?

Re: pass data to Survey123 note or hidden field not working

JosephAlberts — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 20:01:09 GMT

dbecker88‌ Have you had any success working around this? I stumbled onto the same issue; it seems like a reasonable work-around until Survey123 is capable of updating existing feature class records. At least you can connect your survey back to your data after the fact.

Re: pass data to Survey123 note or hidden field not working

BrentKinal1 — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 17:11:49 GMT

I just came across the same issue, I would like to pass two values from Collector to my Survey123 form and lock them from editing in Survey123. Tried making them hidden, notes and read only, unfortunately none of these populate with the values coming from Collector. As far as I can tell there is no way to lock the values. If someone comes up with a solution please share.

Re: pass data to Survey123 note or hidden field not working

LeonS — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 14:30:52 GMT

I am also looking for the same capability. It makes sense to want to pass the unique feature ID from Collector to Survey123 and have the ID value not editable within the survey.

Re: pass data to Survey123 note or hidden field not working

danbecker — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 14:48:26 GMT

I did not make any headway in getting a read-only value to populate in survey123.

I just told all the field staff to NOT TOUCH the ID field that was pre-populated from Collector.

The ideal scenario would be to use survey123 hidden field, then field staff won't even ask a question.

Re: pass data to Survey123 note or hidden field not working

LeonS — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 08:46:36 GMT

Thanks, Dan. I just posted an idea related to this....

https://community.esri.com/ideas/13341

Re: pass data to Survey123 note or hidden field not working

MikeOnzay — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:30:33 GMT

I was able to pass a value to a note field (but not a hidden field) in survey123 today. The trick is to use the calculate field as JTedrick suggested in his reply to this post on March 3rd. https://goo.gl/BRQqOD. I used the function today() in three cells and the value of 1 in another cell. This is working on my desktop browser. On an IPad with Explorer it sort of works. The first two note values and the last note value pass correctly but the third and fourth one are not passing correctly in the iPad.

Re: pass data to Survey123 note or hidden field not working

MikeOnzay — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:55:55 GMT

I now have it working on the iPad. I found that the two values that were not passing correctly were due to capitalization in the custom URL. I guess Survey123 on the iPad is pickier than on the desktop.

&field:containers_size={Containers_Size} - passed value correctly in desktop but not iPad
&field:containers_size={CONTAINERS_Size} - passed value correctly in desktop AND iPad

Re: pass data to Survey123 note or hidden field not working

LeonS — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 15:20:17 GMT

Thanks, that trick worked!

Leon

Re: pass data to Survey123 note or hidden field not working

IsmaelChivite — Tue, 30 May 2017 18:34:46 GMT

Hi. This is to let you know that in version 2.1 (scheduled to be released this week) we have addressed this issue. You will be able to pass values to hidden and notes using the custom url scheme, and without tricks...

Re: pass data to Survey123 note or hidden field not working

Anonymous User — Tue, 30 May 2017 18:45:19 GMT

Hoping the editing of repeats within the Inbox is included within this release? It would be a tremendous help to our forms. IF not, then hopefully the following release after this one will.

Re: pass data to Survey123 note or hidden field not working

KevinFleshman — Tue, 30 May 2017 21:25:27 GMT

I found that using using the URL Scheme to pass data to a survey with read only set to yes works only with integers. I've been trying to get this to work with text field types with no luck. Glad I found this thread and hope the new 2.1 release comes out soon with a fix for text, notes, and hidden types.

Re: pass data to Survey123 note or hidden field not working

IsmaelChivite — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 05:13:00 GMT

2.1 has been released with a fix for hidden fields and parameters to the custom URL scheme.

https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2017/06/02/world-milk-day-release-21

Editing with repeats is on the works for 2.2, which is scheduled for late July.

Re: pass data to Survey123 note or hidden field not working

CardnoNew — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 01:50:04 GMT

I am using 2.3.29 and this is not fixed. I can only send values to a custom note field from URL by also applying a calculation to the note field.

This has a negative consequence in that adding note fields that contain calculations also triggers the existing data will be deleted warning.

Re: pass data to Survey123 note or hidden field not working

JohnathanHasthorpe — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 07:41:19 GMT

Hi Cardno

I can confirm that that hidden questions do get populated using custom urls and have done since 2.1. Please can you share some more information on your configuration - are you launching from collector and if so, what platform?

Thanks

John

Re: pass data to Survey123 note or hidden field not working

CardnoNew — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 20:03:39 GMT

Hi John,

I am launching from collector 17.0.2 on Android. opening a Survey123 form version 2.4.7.

I am attempting to pass a text field to a note field through the url.

I just checked and can report that it does not work. The note field is blank. However, if I put a calculation in, - even just by writing 1 in the calculation field- and then reuploading the form, it does work. The reupload process generates an incompatible data warning.

Having worked once, it continues to work, even if i remove the calculation and reupload. However, I don't want to do this with existing surveys due to the incompatible schema warning.

Thanks,

Jo.

Re: pass data to Survey123 note or hidden field not working

JohnathanHasthorpe — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 23:39:32 GMT

Hi Cardno

While hidden fields do work - we have a bug open for updating a note field. I will add your information to it.

Thanks

John