topic Re: Value not returning to user with mobile app in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Value not returning to user with mobile app

JohnMarra — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 18:07:49 GMT

I created a note field that is returning the values of a previous 2 time fields with some text in the label. It displays properly in the web app version of the survey but not the mobile app.

Here is the code i'm using..

Borehole Start/End Time ${field_8} / ${field_9}

In the mobile app all I see is "/"

in the web app I see "Borehole Start/End Time 13:01:51 / 13:15:51", which is correct.

Re: Value not returning to user with mobile app

Anonymous User — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 01:31:38 GMT

Hi John,

For the mobile app you need to concat the string together in Connect and also use format-date to get the numeric string format of start and end fields into a date format. For example the calculation in note field would be:

concat('Borehole Start/End Time ', format-date(${start_time},'%d-%m-%Y %H:%M'), ' / ', format-date(${end_time},'%d-%m-%Y %H:%M'))

If you only want to show time and not date, then remove the %d-%m-%Y part. More examples of supported date and time formatting can be found in this blog: https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2016/04/17/dates-and-time-in-survey123-for-arcgis

Regards,

Phil.

Re: Value not returning to user with mobile app

JohnMarra — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 15:30:28 GMT

Thanks Philip

Works perfectly!

Re: Value not returning to user with mobile app

JohnMarra — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 20:08:46 GMT

I did have to make 2 separate forms for web and mobile app as the web app because they don't appear to process the code the same.

Re: Value not returning to user with mobile app

Anonymous User — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 05:12:51 GMT

Hi John,

Yes, there is a current known issue in our backlog with the time formatting differences between the web and mobile app, I have updated your comments in the issue. Using two forms will help workaround this issue, the option would be to try and use calculations in null fields and hidden fields that the note points to, all in the one survey for both, to be able to change the formatting in app to display a format that the web app will also be able to process.

Phil.